CANTON FAIR CLOSES--PRIZES AWARDED

The Canton Fair was held in the new Wickwire block on Railroad Avenue, large building on right, which was named "Grand Central."

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, February 17, 1888.

Canton Cortland’s Fair.

   The Patriarch's Militant of Canton Cortland closed their fair on Saturday night. The following prizes were drawn by holders of season tickets:

   Bert Bingham, Organ.

   C. E. VanBrocklin, Guitar.

   C. Leonard, Clock

   Adelbert Tyler, Chair.

   D. E. Smith, Smoking Set.

   Geo. Kenfield, Silver Bake Dish.

   R. B. Linderman, Pair Shoes.

   Mrs. T. Wickwire, Toilet Set.

   F. A. Woodworth, Desk.

   Mrs. W. J. Perkins, Picture.

   Warner Rood, Coffee Pot.

   R. Beard, Plush Guitar.

   H. S. Beebe, Carpet Sweeper.

   Geo. W. Richardson, Perreline Vase.

   Carrie Welch, Sack Flour.

   Clara Bosworth, Box Cigars.

   D. S. Freer, 5 lbs. Tea.

   Mrs. Sarah L. Clark, Carriage Top.

   Mr. Vail, Bonnet.

   Curtis L. Kinney, Wristlets.

   M. B. Lester, Box Cigars.

   J. J. Arnold, Hood.

   A. Mahan, Subscription DEMOCRAT.

   Jas. Reilly, Corset.

   L. Johnson, Hand Painted Banjo.

   M. G. Johnson, Order 11x17 Photograph.

   A. E. Buck, Sack Flour.

   Mrs. Hattie Yager, Razor.

   W. A. Morgan, Box Cigars.

   Frank Dowd, Hood.

   Mrs. H. G. Ingalls, Whip.

   Mrs. Flora Dodge, Subscription Cortland Standard.

   J. A. Schermerhorn, Banjo.

   Frank Wygant, Silk Hand’k’f.

   Jno. E. Seaman, Order for Tea.

   N. G. Brown, Shaving Mug.

   J. C. Rengrove, Sack Flour.

   M. K. Harris, Pair Shoes.

   A. M. Jewett, Chair.

   Dan Dolan, Vases.

   Jno. Sizeland, Trunk.

   T. B. Stowell, Water Set.

   Jno. Davern, Pair Shoes.

   Tom Pudney, Chair.

   W. A. Smith, Carriage Trimmings.

   S. A. Ferris, New Home Machine.

   H. Holcomb, Doll.

   Clark Franklin, Pair Shoes.

   M. R. Tyler, Chamber Set.

   Annie Manchester, 6 Cans Tomatoes.

   Annie Cowlen, Easel.

   M. L. Decker, Pocket Knife.

   Herbert Wood, Oil Painting.

   Ella Dexter, Hanging Lamp.

   I. C. Shults, Picture.

   Jane Stockwell, Pair Shoes.

   Geo. C. Cleveland, Bottle Orange Juice.

   Benj. Hamilton, Case Toilet Soap.

   Mrs. J. Curla Subscription Monitor.

   S. J. Carpenter, 1 doz. Bottles Sewing Machine Oil.

   D. V. McCarthy, Pocket Knife.

   Burgess & Bingham, Silk Hat.

   Levi S. Johnson, 4 doz. S. M. Needles.

   Henry Colligan, Fruit Dish.

   S. M. Costello, Sack Flour.

   E. B. Southworth, Carpet Sweeper.

   E. D. Brandt, Order for Tea.

   Mrs. J. S. Short, Water Set.

   F. J. Pike, Gent’s Toilet Set.

   Chas. Straat, 6 Cans Tomatoes.

   Dr. Miles Hyde, Pocket Knife.

   The glass pipe offered to homeliest man in Cortland became the property of Mr. A. B. Fillsinger, and the glass Statue of Justice to the most popular lady was awarded to Mrs. W. P. Robinson. Mr. A. B. Ferris carried away the New Home Sewing Machine and Thos. Grady's child took the glass Bird of Paradise offered to the handsomest baby.

Cortland County Agricultural Society.

   At the meeting of the members of the Cortland County Agricultural Society held

last Saturday at the Cortland House parlors, the following officers were chosen for the ensuing year:

   President—Geo. P. Squires, Marathon.

   Vice President—L. H. Heberd, Homer.

   Secretary—G. H. Smith, Cortland.

   Treasurer—J. D. F. Woolston, Cortland.

   Executive committee:

   Cortland— A. D. Blodgett, T. H. Wickwire, E. Keator, A. P. Rowley, H. R. Rouse, H. Wells, A. L. Cole, G, J. Mager, H. A. Randall, J. D. F. Woolston.

   Homer—C. W. Gage, O. Porter, L. H. Heberd, D. N. Hitchcock, John Scott, James H. Clark, George Daniels.

   Marathon—James H. Tripp, J. R. Robinson.

   Preble —Seth Hobart, H. J. B. Tully.

   Scott—D. K. Cutler.

   Truxton—Tyler Pierce, Burdette Pierce.

   Solon—Daniel Morris.

   Taylor—M. O. Perry.

   Freetown—J. H. Seeber.

   McGrawville— C. M. Bean, G. Hammond.

   Willett—Wilson Greene.

   Cincinnatus—G. H. Holmes.

   Lapeer—Win. E. Hunt.

   Harford—P. A. Johnson.

   Cuyler—J. W. Patrick, Adam Petrie.

   Virgil— Wellington Manard.

SUPERlNTENDENTS.

   General Supt.—J. H. Tripp, Marathon.

   Supt. of Hall—W. E. Powers.

   Supt. of Cattle—R. W. Rice.

   Horses—T. H. Wickwire.

   Sheep and Swine—John Scott.

   Poultry—Henry St. Peter.

   Farm Implements—A. D. Blodgett, N. Chamberlain.

   Fruits and Vegetables—F. Sears.

   Dairy Interests—J. H. Clark.

   Races—C. F. Wickwire, T. H. Wickwire, J. C. Seager.

   Gates—A. P. Rowley.

   Grand Stand—D. N. Hitchcock.

   The report of the treasurer showed the society to be on a solid financial basis and every effort will be made by the new officers to make the fairs this year successful.

[The Agricultural Society administered the annual Cortland County Fair—CC editor.]

The 45th Company.

   The civil organization of the 45th Separate Company was completed at their meeting Monday night by the election of the following officers and committees:

   President: Capt. B. E. Miller.

   Secretary: N. J. Peck.

   Treasurer: Clark Lathrop.

   Finance Committee—Capt. B. E. Miller, [Lathrop], Floyd Stillman, T. T. Bates.

   Recruiting committee—Capt. B. E Miller, Dr. Higgins, E. M. Williams.

   Delinquency committee—Lieut. J. R. Birdlebough, E. J. Hopkins.

   Mr. H. A. Dickinson, chairman of the committee on By-Laws, reported a set of rules for the government of the company which were adopted and ordered sent to Albany for approval. The regular company drill will be held in Taylor Hall next Monday evening. 

THE ROAD TO A FORTUNE.

Riches Gained Only After a Most Persistent Struggle.

   So you want to be rich! Of course you do, my boy! There has been hardly a boy or man since the world began who has not wanted just this thing. But wanting and getting are two different things and the getters are as few as the wanters are many. Still the world never afforded such opportunities for money making as it does now, and the age of millionaires as far as America is concerned has come to stay.

   We have now 60,000,000 people, but we have a country which will support 600,000,000. We are growing at the rate of 2,000,000 a year, and we are the biggest manufacturing and agricultural nation of this rich round earth. Still we are but in our infancy, and while we are growing to ten times our present size there will be always work and money to spare. The early bird and the all-day bird will continue to catch the worm of wealth in your lifetime and mine, as it had done in those of our fathers, and the paths to fortune will be so plain that he who runs may read them.

   Don't growl at your circumstances and your prospects. Your circumstances are better than the past ones of many a rich man of today, and whatever your prospects are now you are to make what they will be in the future.

   Are you a farmer's boy? P. T. Barnum, the millionaire showman, plowed corn when he was your age for ten cents a day, and after he was twelve years of age earned his own clothes. Senator Joe Brown of Georgia, the richest man in the South, was glad to make his first money by plowing his neighbors' fields with a pair of bull calves, and Howe, the sewing machine millionaire, sold butter and eggs from a farm. Cornelius Vanderbilt began his life by farming, and the boys who are now working upon farms will do three-fourths of the work of the next generation.

   Are you clerking in a store? Look at the number of rich men who have arisen from clerkship to riches; you compare their former salaries with yours. See Wanamaker at $1.25 a week, Dave Simon dishing out sugar over an Ohio counter for $4 a month, and George W. Childs, an errand boy for a bookseller at a not much higher salary. You are a poor clerk indeed if you are making more now than these men did at your age, and if you think your work is not full of possibilities, I can show you other places still worse out of which have blossomed millions.

   Well, P. T. Barnum earned a salary as a bartender in Niblo's Theatre when he first came to New York. Flood, the California millionaire, kept a saloon on Washington street, San Francisco, during his earlier experiences in the West, and Vassar sold beer and oysters during a part of his career. Barnum's early life was mixed up in speculations of all kinds. He was a book agent and was once the proprietor of patent bear grease for the hair, and he at one time owned a grocery store. He was twenty-four years of age when he began speculation in shows, and his first break was the nurse of George Washington, an old negress whom he bought in Philadelphia for $1,000 cash. She died seven months after he bought her, but by showing her in New York be made enough to prove to himself that there were millions in the business. Since then he has spent fortunes in this way, and one of his best investments was the Jenny Lind concerts, which brought in $712,000 and which netted Barnum more than $500,000 in nine months.

   George I. Seney’s father was a Methodist preacher, and Phil. Armour was bound out as a boy and he got his employer to release him when he went to California. Paul Tulane, the millionaire philanthropist who died a year or so ago, leaving a fortune to a number of colleges, was years ago a merchant tailor in New Orleans, and George Law, the great bridge builder, who left $12,000,000 when he died in 1882, spent his life between eight and twenty-one in milking cows and working on a farm. His father kept him at work for himself until he was of age, and he began life with just $40, which he had managed to save during this time.—Pittsburg Dispatch.