Exhibition time is fast approaching and it might be interesting to think back to a former exhibition, indeed a way back, to the 1916!  At that time, the Halifax County Exhibition was only held for two days., on September the twenty-first and twenty -second.  Admission for adults was twenty-five cents and for children under twelve, ten cents.

The president of the exhibition ws Samuel Hanna, the vice president was C.H. Fulton, the secretary treasurer was Chas. Logan, and other officials were Sidney McKeen, Roy Archibald, William Gladwin, George Taylor and Edward McFetridge.  The superintendents were as follows: horse classes light and heavy, Chas. A. Fulton and William Kaulback; and cattle, S. Crockett and Joseph Bruce.  The entrance fee for cattle was twenty-five cents, and for under one year, fifteen cents.

There were two classes for sheep: short wool, and long wool; and superintendent was Walter Wicks.

William Guild was in charge of all poultry classes.  There was also a class for eggs, with prizes for the heaviest dozen  brown eggs and heaviest dozen white eggs.

C.D. Joudrey was in charge of grain and seed, and Adam Archibald, Roy Archibald, and Frank Anser, Vegetables and roots.   There was a class for butter and cheese, and Jas. A Sedgewick was charge of these.

Samuel Hanna was superintendent of plants and flowers, and George Taylor and Edward Isenor Jr. of the fruit classes  Mrs. John Dickie, Mrs. C.
Logan, and Mrs. C Fulton looked after needlework; and Mrs. Robert Kaulback, the cooking.  The school exhibits were supervised by Graham Creighton.

There were also a number interesting ads which tell us something of Middle Musquodoboit at that time.  There were at least two hotels; the Fairview Hotel, which stood at the corner where Joyce Scott's store was, across from Stuart's Esso, and owned by W.T. Greene, and the "Connaught Hotel", now George Fulton's residence.  Its proprietor was C.F. Blackadar.

There were at least four grocery and dry goods stores.  The owners were Ira J. McFetridge, Mrs. E. Taylor, E. McQuinn, and Daniel Reid.

William Bentley advertised his carriage building and painting, and at the bottom of his ad he said, "undertaking  a full line of caskets kept constantly on hand".

We also had a tailor, A.R. MacDonald; and a blacksmith, Robert Guild. There wa a barrister, James A. Sedgewick; and a medical doctor, Charles H. Morris; and a physician and surgeon, Dr. John Reid.