Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1864-05-03
The Great Sanitary Fair.

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The Great Sanitary Fair
Hou. 5. ). Woods has been appointed
Chairman Of the sut-comn it;ee for the
20th judicial district for the Legal pro-
tession for the above Fair. lie has
appointed the following gentlemen as
sub-committee fvr this county: Hon.
john Walls (chairmap), g. L. Miller,
j. + Linn, aud j. G. B4cher, E.qs.
The chairman Of the committee on
Agriculture asks contributors in that
branch to observe the following rules 10
forwarding Contributions
Let each package be marked, " To
Atced s keanedy, " D., Chairman If
the Commita,.. on iyrir"harc, Great Cen
traI Far Ijacehouse, Ta,1ad"
do not pay charges.
3.-Iet each Contribution be labeled
with its reasonable value.
4.-Let every pack ,ge be securely pat
up, and the contents carefully marked.
5-Mall to DIR. Kennedy receipt
from the express ageut, list of the
articles, aud the donors name
-Coutributions from this vicinity to
be sent to the express offce,in LeSisburg.
We shall take pleasure in publishing
the names of donors and the value of their
contributions at different times, If we are
furnished with proper data.
The following article from the German
town Telegraph more fully explains the
method Of systomatiziDg the collection
Of Contributions.
Among the various working committees
Of the coming Fair, the lsbors of few, if
indeed Of any, are more ODcrous than that
of the committee on agriculture. To this
committee is cOufjed the duty Of solicit
ing contributions at the iro,iucfs If tie
Fdrm and Of the F1rmcrs' HguehoiI, in
the three States Of PeunsyivaDia, New
Jersey aud Delaware, and the system of
operations which has been adopted is SO
complete that when carried out not only
every county, but every township. howev-
er remote, is reached, its inhabitants
Informed OF the OF ects of the com mmission,
the friends OF the soldier organized, their
conrlbutioDs collected, forwarded to a
central point convenient TO a railroad, and
hoai!y transported without expense to
contributors, TO the warehouse in this
city
The method by which these ends are
secured is so simple aud yet So efficient,
that brief account of it cannot fail to
interest our readers, as well as to exem-
plify TO farmers Of other States how their
brethren OF the central States 60 to work
IN aid of the Union soldiers. Like the
Chairman OF all the other committees, the
Chairman Of the committee on agriculture
Was appointed by the Executive Commit
tee Of the u. S. Sanitary Commission.
Ills first care was 10 surround himself
with earnest weil-kDOwn and highly re-
spected friends of agriculture in the three
Ntates, OF which sixteen were from Penn
sJIVania, eight from New jersey and five
rom n: l'e'awaTe, making with the chairman
.N.' 10 all by the authority Of this COM
NC a CHAIRMAN Of county committee.
ee"e, any an ofiicer or prominent member a
VI local agricultural society, is app,int. I
ed 10 every county. lie constitutes 6ys ,
gentlemen aud fse ladies a county comm,,
Tee, himself aa'iug as chairman wb;.h
brings the sutia.t before tho !
PuoIic men of The county, provides for the E
holdins OF meetings IN the various church
g, enils's the aid Of the local press. and in
IN t'n appoints aud superintends the oner,.
.at1 rs u committee in each tovnsbin
% mnSse members go from farm 70 farm
unoef certificates Of appoin,men, s;nnad
Dy 'he Chairman Of the county comms,,e eo o
and take down a list of the ,CoS oo',hi''ee .a b
which the farmer aud the fam, 'DInss Il
MS sons and his daughters, mean 10 h.n I
ready Tor the great fair. Some,imSs AVE ia: >,
Oushei OF potatoes, sometimes n;a
r 4sle sheep. and there a pot of butleys. fs' u
~" bag Of dried fruit, and then b,lft 'f
\. .su -, chickens. Or perhaps "mother and "
OK @ shIs have been busy during the win.
- evenings With the knitting and crocbe, {,