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The accepted voters in Clinton County numbered about eight hun- dred and twenty-six. We have not sufficient space for their names. The names of the rejected voters are as follows :
CONCORD TOWNSHIP.
Bailey, John H., Biggerstaff. John S ..
Foree, H. S.,
Lincoln, J. K.,
Fry, G. W.,
Lindsay, E. C.,
Biggerstaff, W. L.,
Hanks, J. P.,
Lyons, E. M.,
Biggerstaff, J. B.,
Haynes, Collett,
McDonald, William,
Biggerstaff, Samuel M., Henderson, Silas,
Marsh, William S.,
Baxter, B. A.,
Hanks, Jeremiah, Holt, S. R.,
Nave, Martin, Russell, John,
Bennett, J. H.,
Hiatt, G. M.,
Russell, R. M.,
Clay, Thomas M., Clark, John L., Clark, P. H.,
Ingles, Charles, Jones, C. C.,
Sherman, S. S.,
Smith, Matthew,
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Craig, B. F., Creek, William, Eberts, John, Ellis, Thomas H., Evert, John, Fry, J.,
Jones, B. A., Kanatzer, Richard,
Kanatzer, Jacob,
Lancaster, G. B., Lewis, James A.,
Trice, Stephen H., Thompson, M. P., Tillery, Woodford,
Viglini, W. E.,
Walker, Jacob.
SHOAL TOWNSHIP.
McCartney, H. A.,
Tipton, M. L.,
Walker, Riley.
PLATTE TOWNSHIP.
Creamer, George R., Creamer, Lewis B., Delany, Uriah, Evans, James,
Hitt, Samuel B.,
Martin, John S.,
Morrow, William,
Newby, George H.,
Oswalt, Alexander, Phelps, Thomas T., Trice, William W.
JACKSON TOWNSHIP.
Barrett, W. C.,
Downey, Ellis,
Madden, J. C.,
Brown, Jesse,
Downey, J. W.,
Moberly, W. R.,
Brown, W. P.,
Downey, R.,
Morrow, Jonah,
Brooking, H.,
Dunlap, R. J.,
Munkers, Harvey,
Brooks, T. S.,
Easton, Joel,
Park, Lewis,
Cravens, E. W.,
Gant, W. J.,
Scruggs, J. V.,
Cravens, J. L.,
Harris, S. J.,
Sharp, Jacob,
Downey, Charles,
Holt, P. G.,
Whitsett, Hiram.
HARDIN TOWNSHIP.
Biggerstaff, George WV., Gabbert, Thomas H., Brown, W. W., Hord, Elias,
Bland, W. W.,
Hall, I. B. G.,
Brown, F. D.,
Hopkins, Griffin,
Palmer, Martin,
Carter, Charles A.,
Hundley, James M.,
Poage, John, Poage, David,
Davenport, R. B.,
Hall, James C.,
Puckyute, Jones,
Elliott, Joseph T.,
Johnson, Robert,
Scearce, Robert L.,
Elliott, R. C.,
Johnson, J. W.,
Elliott, W. B.,
Johnson, Thomas,
Stoutimore, B., Scearce, Robert, Sr.,
Faddis, J. S. W.,
Jones, W. T.,
Tremble, J. H.,
Fry, James M., Froman, James H.,
Lott, F. P.,
Thorp. Thomas,
Gentry, P., Jr.,
Mathews, J. P.,
Walker, James H.
Gentry, P., Sr.,
LA FAYETTE TOWNSHIP.
Atterbury, James, Adams, W. S., Atterburn, James R., Brown, C. D.,
Keller, C. N., Livingston, Nathan, Livingston, N., Lafoon, H B.,
Ransdell, E. C., Rose, Emsly, Ray, C. S., Rebo, William,
Marsh, Joshua, Poage, William, Puckyute, Josephus,
Dunlap, Preston,
Hill, Thomas R.,
Martin, William M.,
Willhoit, O. E.,
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Canal, Nathaniel,
Lafoon, A. Z.,
Smith, H. W.,
Cook, J. H.,
Livingston, Nathaniel,
Saunders, D. G.,
Clark, Josiah,
Livingston, Andrew,
Tyre, T. B.,
Crocket, W. T.,
Lafoon, J. W.,
Todd, George,
Davis, G. W.,
McWilliams, G. T.,
Tillery, R. W.,
Deatly, James,
Mayse, Cary,
Weekly, George S.,
Ducoing, John,
Price, William,
Wilkerson, W. C.,
Everett, Alexander,
Polly, W. P.,
Wingate, W. J.,
Everett, W. T.,
Peyton, Samuel,
Weekly, J. C.,
Finch, A. A.,
Price, James J.,
Weekly, W. T.,
Irvine, John M.,
Price, W. H.,
Weekly, Granville,
Jones, J. W.,
Peyton, W. S.
Wilkerson, W. A.,
Johnson, J. D.,
Rocknell, Willis,
Word, Charles.
Number of rejected voters, 182.
The campaign that followed was one of the most exciting that ever took place in the county. Speeches were made in every township and voting precinct, by not only the candidates themselves, and a number of local orators, but by men of state and national reputation, among whom was General Frank P. Blair. General Blair arrived in Plattsburg on Monday, October 29, and was greeted, on alighting from his carriage, with Hail Columbia, by the Plattsburg Band. At one o'clock P. M., of that day, he addressed a large crowd at the court house, in an earnest eloquent and practical speech. He was followed by Judge Bassett and Col. John F. Williams, all of whom were laboring in behalf of the Dem- oratic Conservative party. The election took place on the 6th day of November. The Republican ticket was generally declared elected- including Colonel Van Horn, for congress. Judge Birch gave notice that he would contest the election for various reasons, among which were the following :
First-That he, having received a majority of the legal votes cast at the election, they should have been counted for him.
Second-That the "test oath" was unauthoritive and not binding upon those who were voters under the old constitution, and that the " test oath " was repugnant to the constitution of the United States, and the bill of rights of the state constitution.
Colonel Van Horn was finally admitted to a seat in congress, the Republican party having, at the time, a large majority of members in both houses.
CHAPTER XXIII.
AGRICULTURE.
HEMP-CLINTON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL ASSOCIATION - FAIRS - PREMIUMS -CLINTON COUNTY FARMERS' CLUBS - PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY - SHORT HORN ASSOCIATION - CLINTON COUNTY COMPARED WITH OTHER COUN- TIES-PEOPLE.
The progress of agricultural enterprise in the past quarter of a cen- tury, evident all over our land, in no section has developed more marked advancement than that displayed in the condition of Northwest Missouri to-day.
Clinton County, in common with others of the earlier settled por- tions of the state, enjoyed the advantage of numbering among her orig- inal settlers men of means, intelligence and enterprise. This fact is abundantly evident in the character of some of the earliest attempts at improvement to-day extant within her limits.
Naturally the first settlements were made in the timbered districts of the county, and it was not till a very large proportion of this part of the same was settled that the pioneers from the older states, many of whom had never seen a prairie till their arrival in Missouri, began to venture settlements in that, in those days, doubtful region of treeless expanse. Indeed there are to-day living in the county, on well-improved and valuable prairie farms, men who at the period of their first arrival in the country, forty-five years ago, declared the opinion that the timberless prairies would never be settled. These now include some of the best improved and most desirable sections of the county.
The cultivation of cleared timber land with the necessary presence of stumps, precluded the application of machinery, long after the use of the same had become comparatively common in the older settled dis- tricts. Slave labor was extensively, indeed, generally, employed, and the hoe, an implement almost obsolete in this advanced day, was the indispensable means of cultivating every crop which required tillage after planting. Notwithstanding the comparatively careless character of farming which soon succeeded the first efforts of the pioneers, even in that early day, the returns from agricultural labor were enormous. The very fact of the generous soil so readily responding to the efforts of the husbandman induced this lack of diligence and laborious care in farming
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which was indeed unnecessary. Men from the older states, who were accustomed in their former homes to manuring and preparing for seed with the most scrupulous care the soil which they afterwards hoed and plowed repeatedly to secure a scanty yield of corn or of some other product, soon learned that prairie sod corn planted in the simply upturned glebe, without any subsequent attention, yielded crops which, in their former homes in the older states, would have been regarded as enormous.
Many of the early settlers of the county, who brought their slaves with them, came from districts of Kentucky and Virginia, where hemp was a staple product. The first attempt to introduce the culture of this crop, which was soon to become the great staple of Clinton, in common with other counties of the state, proved an unqalified success.
This success soon induced others to the culture of this crop, and in a few years, hemp was recognized as the great staple of the county. It so continued until the breaking out of the civil war, when, in default of slave labor, the raising of this product was gradually discontinued.
Other commodities were imported as substitutes, and in a few years, the amount raised in the county of what had for years constituted its great staple became so insignificant as to be entirely omitted in com- mercial quotations.
There probably never was a country adapted by soil and climate, to as various a character of products, as much confined, for years, to one yield. The culture of hemp seemed to have absorbed almost every other agricultural enterprise.
Nothing raised in the country, either before its introduction or since its abandonment has paid as well. The average price for years was $100 per ton, and the average yield per acre 800 pounds. Aside from the remunerative character of the crop, many advantages contributed to its popularity. Being invariably cut before it went to seed, it failed, as with other crops, to impoverish the soil; indeed, it was a generally admitted fact that from the decomposition of the foliage, old hemp land, instead of deteriorating in quality from constant cropping, steadily improved, and 1,000 pounds to the acre on such lands was no uncommon yield.
Another advantage in the raising of hemp was that its culture did not in any way interfere with the corn crop. Sowed early in the spring before corn planting time, it was not ready for cutting before August , when all the corn was "laid by."
In the palmiest days of hemp raising, but a comparatively small amount of wheat was produced in the county. The rich alluvial soil, fathomless in the depths of its exhaustless fecundity, was not so well adapted, as the early pioneers thought, to the yielding of wheat, which, at best, commanded no such return as did hemp. Indeed, so insignifi- cant was the quantity of wheat raised in the county in those days, that a considerable amount of the flour consumed was imported.
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In the matter of breaking hemp, 112 pounds was considered a day's work. The slave was paid at the rate of one dollar per hundred for all he broke over and above this, the standard task. It was not unusual to. find negroes in those days who broke from 200 to 300 pounds per day, and in this way often earning $100 during the course of a winter. Besides this there were occasionally found masters who allowed such of their slaves as displayed unusual industry, patches of ground, on which they raised hemp for their own exclusive and personal benefit.
This patriarchal character of servitude was the rule rather than the exception in Clinton County.
It was nothing uncommon to get as many as twenty tons of hemp from one farmer.
The extraordinarily remunerative business of hemp raising induced many to purchase farming lands in the county on credit. About the period of the breaking out of the civil war, these enterprising citi- zens had, many of them, about succeeded in paying for these lands, and were beginning to contemplate improvements in the way of building, etc., when the distracted condition of the country put a sudden and protracted stop to every class and character of improvement. This, in a great measure, accounts for the inferior character of farm residences in the county, compared with those of Clay and other neighboring coun- ties, about the period of the revival of business, after the close of the war. The demand for hemp ceased, and the farmers of the county began to turn their attention to the culture of other products. Wheat, though an uncertain crop in the county began to claim attention, and the extraordinary yield of one season, shortly after the close of the war, and a price of some two dollars per bushel, started everybody to- raising wheat. Experience has demonstrated, however, the truth that while an occasionally excellent crop may be raised, Clinton County is by no means a wheat country. Enterprise in the business of farming, in all its various expressions has, from time to time, been manifested within the county. All the latest appliances of art in the way of machinery for lightening and expediting labor, are tested, and rejected or adopted on the basis of their respective merits, as soon as presented to the public.
The spirit of old fogyism on the part of the farming community is found to exist only in rare and isolated cases.
The county, like all sections of the country, has, to some extent, suffered from drouth, but these have, perhaps, been less frequent here than in the contiguous counties. The soil is of such a character that it retains moisture with a remarkable tenacity, and the natural drainage is so admirable that no portion of the cultivated lands are ever damaged by standing water.
Notwithstanding the present (1881) drouth, that has prevailed to an almost unparalleled extent over the entire Union, it is now estimated
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that the entire corn crop of Clinton County, will average fully a half crop, and that the grass will be as abundant and as nutritious as in any preceding year.
Besides the terrible backset to the entire country from the conse- quences of the civil war, Clinton County suffered her full share of the evils of the grasshopper scourge, the desolating effects of which were felt in 1866, 1874, and 1875. Confident in the power of her grand resources, and ever hopeful of better days, her people scorned, in the hour of their calamity, to solict the aid of their more fortunate neigh- bors, and ultimately triumphed proudly over the ills upon her poured by malignant fortune. Phoenix-like she has risen from the wreck of every calamity more beautiful and enduring than before, and to-day she pre- sents to the world a spectacle of solid growth and substantial wealth of which many an older and more fortunate country might be justly proud.
As before intimated, many of the earliest settlers of the county were men of intelligence, as well as of a fair share of pecuniary means. These early recognized the importance of competitive exhibitions of native products in advancing the spirit of enterprise and consequent improvement of all that pertains to excellence in rural or agricultural pursuits.
CLINTON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL ASSOCIATION.
In the fall of 1856, Clinton County held her first fair, at the grounds one-half mile west of Plattsburg. The fair grounds at first embraced forty acres of land (twenty of which being afterwards sold), well adapted to the purposes to which it was for so many years devoted. This ground, including the improvements, cost the association six thou- sand dollars. These improvements consisted of a large and handsome amphitheatre, with seating capacity for three thousand persons, a suffi- cient number of well arranged booths, a grand stand, and many other conveniences that added to the comforts and attractions of the place. The association was organized with the following officers and directors : Officers-President, A. H. F. Payne ; Vice-President, G. W. Culver ; Secretary, C. S. Hale ; Treasurer, J. N. Hockaday. Directors James R. Coffmore, James G. Young, H. A. McCartney, J. P. Harlin, G. W. Winn, W. W. Bland, G. W. Davis, Charles Young, R. Scearce, E. C. Birch.
The amount of premiums offered the first year, (1856) was eleven hundred dollars. We regret that we cannot obtain a list of the premiums and the names of the successful parties to whom they were awarded. The fair was not only largely attended, but was financially, and in every particular, a great success. These fairs continued to be held, annually, for four successive years, until 1860. The civil war, of course, put an
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end to everything of the kind, and no effort to revive the institution was inaugurated till two years after the close of the war. At the first annual meeting of the stockholders, which occurred April 1, 1867, after the war, the secretary, Wm. J. Biggerstaff, reported the sum of two hundred and eighty-two dollars and ninety cents in the hands of the treasurer of the association. At that meeting, the following officers were elected :
Charles Young, President ; W. W. Bland, first Vice President ; J. B. Biggerstaff, second Vice President; John M. McMichael, Secretary ; James M. Clay, Treasurer. Board of Directors-Hardin Township, Rob- ort Johnson and Robert Scearce ; Shoal Township, Thomas E. Turney and H. A. McCartney ; La Fayette Township, George W. Davis and ยท Thomas E. Campbell; Platte Township, Joseph Duncan and Wm. T. Duvall ; Jackson Township, Richard T. Kelley and Charles Donning ; Concord Township, Samuel H. Smith, James E. Young and Wilson L. Biggerstaff.
The officers for 1868 were: W. W. Bland, President ; J. N. Hocka- day, first Vice President ; James R. Coffmore, second Vice President ; John M. McMichael, Secretary, and James M. Clay, Treasurer. Board of Directors-Concord Township, Charles Young, George B. Duncan and M. L. Biggerstaff ; Hardin Township, Robert Scearce and Robert Johnson; La Fayette Township, George W. Davis and Thomas E. Campbell ; Platte Township, E. C. Hale and Clay. Duncan ; Shoal Township, John Smith and H. P. McCartney ; Jackson Township, Jefferson Hubbard and M. E. Moberly.
The officers for 1869 were: J. N. Hockaday, President ; James B. Biggerstaff, first Vice President ; Ewen C. Hale, second Vice President ; W. P. Hooper, Secretary, and O. P. Riley, Treasurer. Board of Direc- tors-Aaron Shoemaker, George B. Duncan, Josiah Stoutimore, James E. Young, W. E. Moberly, W. P. Hardin, James T. Gardner, T. F. Phelps, H. C. Duncan, John W. Jones, T. J. Scudusky, Robert Scearce and W. W. Bland.
In 1870: Evan C. Hale, President ; Charles Young and Jas. E. Young, Vice Presidents ; W. P. Hooper, Secretary, and O. P. Riley, Treasurer. Directors, Wilson L. Biggerstaff, Joseph B. Biggerstaff, G. T. Biggerstaff, W' E. Moberly, J. R. Coffman, H. A. McCartney, James T. Girdin, H. C. Duncan, W. T. Duvall, E. T. Campbell, R. C. Brown, Robert Scearce and J. B. Mathews.
In 1871 : Ewen C. Hale, President ; W. W. Bland G. W. Davis, Vice Presidents ; W. P. Hooper, Secretary, and James M. Clay, Treasurer. Directors, H. A. McCartney, W. P. Hardin, H. C. Duncan, T. F. Phelps, Samuel Dunds, T. E. Campbell, Robert Scearce, Jr., B. J. Mathews, W. E. Moberly, T. J. Hubbard, James E. Young, Wilson L. Biggerstaff and G. B. Duncan.
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In 1872: W. W. Bland, President ; James M. Clay and James B. Biggerstaff, Vice-Presidents ; H. P. Hooper, Secretary, and O. P. Riley, Treasurer. Directors-H. A. McCartney, John Shirts, Ewen C. Hale, John W. Jones, M. Johnson, George W. Davis, T. E. Campbell, Wilson I .. Biggerstaff, Samuel H. Smith, W. E. Moberly, T. J. Hubbard, James E. Young, and William Winn.
In 1873 : W. W. Bland, President ; James M. Clay and Joseph B. Biggerstaff, Vice-Presidents ; W. P. Hooper, Secretary, and O. P. Riley, Treasurer. Directors-H. P. McCartney, John Shirts, Ewen C. Hale, J. W. Jones, M. Johnson, George W. Davis, Robert L. Scearce, W. L. Big- gerstaff, Samuel H. Smith, W. E. Moberly, J. R. Coffman, James E. Young, and William Winn.
In 1874 the same officers who served in 1873 were re-elected for 1874.
In 1875 : W. W. Bland, President ; A. S. Fry and O. P. Riley, Vice- Presidents ; George P. Funkhouser, Secretary, and C. W. Porter, Treas- urer. Directors-John Shirts, W. P. Hardin, W. T. Duvall, R. C. Brown, George W. Davis, Jackson Estes, George Shepperd, T. D. Phillips, V. R. Porter, R. T. Kelley, T. J. Hubbard, Berry Shaver, and C. H. Lincoln.
The last fair held at Plattsburg was in the fall of 1870, but the organization continued until 1876, when the operations of the associa- tion were discontinued. During that year the grounds and property of the association were sold to Col. Charles W. Porter. After the payment of all debts and encumbrances a dividend of two dollars and fifty cents was paid to each of the stockholders. Thus terminated the fortunes of the Clinton County Agricultural and Mechanical Association, an asso- ciation that did much good toward encouraging and developing the agri- cultural resources and mechanical ingenuity of the county.
The Clinton County Register, of September 23d, 1870, in speaking of the last fair held in the county, says : "The first day (Tuesday), the weather was so inauspicious that the directors postponed the exhibition until Wednesday. Wednesday, though, in the the morning, the clouds were lowering, by ten o'clock the shifting drapery of the skies passed away, and a goodly crowd began wending its way to the scene of attraction. Thursday and Friday came with promise of fine weather, and, early in the morning of each day, the people came en masse. These were two good days for showing horses, mules, jacks, colts, bonnets, fine dresses, silk hats, babies, and other attendant attractions. These two days passed of pleasantly, and with profit to the association. Saturday, the last day of the fair, the ladies exhibited a numerous and gaudy dis- play of quilts, comforts, petticoats, bonnets, dresses, cabbages, beets, turnips, etc., etc., this day being substituted for Tuesday. The display of carriages, buggies and wagons was very good. Mr. Scutt and Messrs. Moore & Mathews had a fine display of their workmanship upon the
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grounds, and it drew remarks of commendation from all. The associa- tion have met all expenses, with a handsome surplus over."
Below we give the names of the parties to whom premiums were awarded, and a list of the articles for which the premiums were given. We do this to show the productive resources of the county at that date, and also to show, in the years to come, the names of the men and women who took an active part in making the fairs of Clinton County a success. The premiums amounted to $2,773 :
FIRST DAY-FIRST CLASS.
Best home-made jeans, Miss Tine Johnson ; best colored linsey, Mrs. Harriet Martin, premium and certificate; best white linsey, Mrs. Harriet Martin, premium ; best white flannel, Mrs. A. C. Cook, premium ; best colored flannel, Mrs. Harriet Martin, premium ; best linen diaper, Miss Jennie Payne, premium ; best wool carpet, Mrs. A. C. Cook, pre- mium ; best rag carpet, Mrs. H. Martin, premium ; best pair blankets, Mrs. H. Martin, premium ; best balmoral, Mrs. G. D. Hockaday, pre- mium ; best pair woolen hose, Mrs. H. Martin, premium ; best pair half hose, Miss Cordelia Osborn, premium ; best pair glove mitts, Mrs. J. D. Johnson, premium ; best made coat, (by lady), Mrs. W. B. Biggerstaff, premium ; best made shirt, Miss Sallie Lindsey, premium ; best speci- men linen thread, Mrs. Annie Nash, premium ; best straw hat, Miss Mauda Shepherd, premium.
SECOND CLASS.
Best silk quilt, Mrs. G. D. Hockaday, premium ; best worsted quilt, Mrs. G. D. Hockaday, premium ; best cotton quilt, Miss Ellen Hale, premium ; best woolen quilt, Miss Annie Johnson.
THIRD CLASS.
Best needle work in silk, Miss Jennie Payne, premium ; best needle work in linen, Miss Mollie Riley, premium ; best tetting, Miss Mollie Breckenridge, premium ; best fancy dress bonnet, Mrs. L. Morris, pre- mium ; best sun-bonnet, Miss Sallie J. Lindsey, premium ; best painting in oil, J. G. Priegel, premium.
FOURTH CLASS.
Best washing machine, P. B. Shoemaker, premium.
SIXTH CLASS.
Best acre of corn, James Hedges, premium ; best acre of wheat, George W. Dawson, premium ; best acre of clover, Robert Scearce, pre-
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mium ; best specimen bread corn, Jeremiah Newby, premium ; best specimen stock corn, Jeremiah Newby, premium ; best specimen fall wheat, Josiah Stoutimore, premium ; best specimen oats, O. P. Moran, premium.
SEVENTH CLASS.
Best loaf light wheat bread, Mrs. A. Meininger, premium ; best ham, cooked, Mrs. M. E. Biggerstaff, premium ; best honey, Mrs. Tine Johnson, premium ; best green pickles, Mrs. L. Wilkerson, premium ; best yellow pickles, Mrs. L. Wilkerson, premium ; best damson preserves, Mrs. O. P. Moran, premium ; best apple preserves, Mrs. O. P. Moran, premium ; best pear preserves, Mrs. O. P. Moran, premium ; best cherry preserves, Mrs. O. P. Moran, premium ; best quince preserves, Mrs. O. P. Moran, premium ; best peach preserves, Mrs. Robert Johnson, premium ; best currant jelly, Mrs. G. D. Hockaday, premium ; best gooseberry jelly, Miss Tine Johnson, premium ; best apple jelly, Mrs. Robert Johnson, premium.
EIGHTH CLASS.
Best pair turkeys, Samuel Shepherd, premium ; best pair ducks, Richard Rocknell, premium ; best pair chickens, Samuel Shepherd, premium.
NINTH CLASS.
Best display of peaches, A. Rogers, premium ; best domestic wine, O. P. Moran, premium ; best grapes, O. P. Moran, premium ; best sor- ghum molasses, O. P. Moran, premium ; best vinegar, John D). Johnson, premium; best cabbage, Mrs. L. C. Hedges, premium ; best sweet potatoes, Eli Lainhart, premium ; best tomatoes, A. Rogers, premium ; best watermelons, P. F. Trice, premium ; best beets, John H. Trice, premium ; best parsnips, Mrs. M. E. Biggerstaff, premium ; best pump- kins, A. Vaughn, premium ; best display of vegetables, Jeremiah Newby, premium ; best bouquet, Miss Moran, premium.
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