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Monticello Fair Returns With Stock Show and Premiums
The 1866 Monticello Colt Fair Society held its second annual neighborhood fair on September 29 at a trotting track north of the village. Entries included suckling and yearling colts, brood mares, stallions, and trotters with premiums awarded to local breeders such as A Holston and H Sandhouse. About 1,000 spectators attended as judges timed heats and the event advertised future fairs and the county agricultural display opening nearby in Ana Morris.
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Monticello
Monticello Express
Express
The
Tee
Joseph Clark
Wayne Township
John W. Shelley
John White
Bowen's Prairie
James Thompson
D. W. Bacon
C. E. Wales
M. M. Moulton
W. H. Walworth
G. W. Bacon
F. F. Beardsley
John Sutherland
J. Clark
Green Richardson
R. Reed
Curtis Stone
A. Holston
John Potter
George George
H. Sandhouse
F. M. Hicks
Blodgett
John Skelley
Joseph Kohout
R. A. Rynerson
B. Youssee
George Brazelton
H. F. Caine
John Clark
G.eilers
B.C. Merit
J." Tibbits
C. Matson
Frances Reither
G. Eilers
A. Eilers
John Jacobs
Henry King
John Shelley
A. Miller
F. Fairchild
E. S. Blodgett
S. Y. Bradstreet
A. Fairchild
George Eastman
Lightfoot
P. P. Thompson
Boquet
Jack Hamilton
Joseph Tryon
P. O. Babcock
Jack
Anamosa
Fowler
Fischer House