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 HISTORY OF STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 351 gether, and have a jolly good time sitting around a board covered with bright tin dishes, and loaded with nicely cooked products of the farm. ' ' According to the same paper, one of the most interesting features of the fair was the competition of sixteen young .ladies and the same number of young gentlemen for the premiums (first and second large and medium silver medals) for equestrianship. The ladies who competed were as follows:' Miss Belle Case, Polk; Miss Delma Belknap, Mrs. Poole, Washington; Miss Susan L. Gearhart, Clatsop; Miss Dear- dorff, Mrs. Edmonds, and Miss Paulina Tompkins, Clackamas; Oregon City ladies: Miss Frankie Holmes, Miss Mollie L. Holmes, Miss Susan Jackson, Misses Julia and Amy Johnson, Miss Henrietta Miller, Misses Amanda and Jennie Gaines. Miss Case, of Polk, and Miss Jackson, of Clackamas, were awarded the first and second premiums, and among the gentle- men Mr. Post, of Polk, and Samuel Headrick, of Marion, first and second premiums. The receipts were as follows, according to the statement rendered by Lucien Heath, financial secretary: Tickets and admissions. . . $1,321.17 Licenses 125.00 Expenditures. Amount paid for premiums $ 758.00 Amount of bills paid '. . . . 442.67 Amount of cash on hand to balance. . 245.50 $1,446.17 $1,446.17 At the close of the first fair there were on the secretary's books sixty-six names as members, seven paying $5.00 each, and fifty-nine paying $1.00 each, aggregating $94.00 from that source. The grounds at Oregon City not being satisfactory, at the meeting on the 4th of October, 1861, the board of managers decided to advertise for proposals for a place to hold the second State Fair; accordingly the following notice was sent out by Chester N. Terry, corresponding secretary: