The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-10-24
8utIand ateskly Gluhe.
FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. "a, 1878.
UAILTNCFORD CENTENNIAL.

The celebration of the one hundreth an
niversary of the settlement of Wallingford
has closed, and her children, assembled
from near and far, to join the residents in
paying fitting honors to the memory OF
their mother town, have dispersed to their
respective homes. We have endeavored to
give in THE GLOBE, from day to day, full
and detailed accounts of the proceedings,
verbatim copies Of the addresses delivered,
so far as possible and such abstracts and
notices of other papers and addresses as
could be obtained 1t is more than proba-
ble-it would be the greatest wonder in the
history of journalism anywhere If ii were
not so-that many and grave errors have
been overlooked in the proof reading, as it
was necessarily done with haste but with
all this, we venture to say that THE GLOBE,
of Thursday, Friday and to-day contains
the most full and perfect account of his
torical celebration that ever appeared in a
country daily newspaper, published distant
from the place of its occurrence. The
WEEKLY GLOBE, published Friday, and this
mornings DAILY CLONE, contains almost a
full account of the history of Wallingford,
"A fuller, more complete and perfect account
of the history of that town than can be
found in reference to the history of any
other Vermont town, which has not a dis
tinctivc history of its own. This, however,
is merely an ephemeral publication, and
ten Yeas hence it will be difficult to find
as many copies thereof for reference. We
had occasion, day or two ago, to refer to
the fact that this centennial had brought to
light one important fact, heretofore un-
known, namely that Matthew Lyon resided
in WallingfOrd and was a delegate there
from to one of our earlier conventions. We
have not, as yet, had the pleasure of seeing
Mr.. Bakers paper upon that subject, but
we understand that it places the matter be-
yond question or doubt. Such valuable
contribution to Vermont history, as this,
ought not be lost in a newspaper With
the possible exception of Bennington, no
complete file of Vermont newspaper, of
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Bennington, if we understand it, a copy of
newspaper for every year has been pre-
served, but not always IF the same news
paper We do not believe-unless we are
mistaken in reference to Bennington and
that should prove an exception, if so Gov.
crnor Hall will please correct us-that 9
complete file of a newspaper fifty years ole
can he found in the state. If we are wrong
we should be glad to be corrected. w,
have the nearest to complete file of the
oldest Rutland newspaper, but there arr
some, to us, terrible gaps. We call atten
ton to this that our Wallingford friends
may see the necessity of publishing the pro
ceedings and all the addresses delivered
and papers read, ut their centennial in
form for permanent preservation. 1t is {
duty they owe to themselves, the state ant
to history. 1t ought not to be left to indl
vidual enterprise. We do not suppose any
money can be made out of it, as in tn,
wealthy town of Rutland the individual
who published the account of her cen
tennial' was and still is out of pocket owe
Il hundred dollars Individuals ought no
to make these sacrifices for the good of til,
~Nh"Ne, hut let the public priri,ea Citizen
Of Wallingford take hold of this matter
make n permanent record of it, add othc
historical papers, if thought best, and Iii
vide the cost between them. But, in an,
event. let us have an enduring record made