The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-10-18
wALLINGrORD CENTENNIAL.

The celebration of the one hundreth's all
niversary of the settlement of Wallingiord
has closed, and her children, assembled
from near and far, to join the residents III
paying fitting honors to the memory OF
their mother town, have dispersed to their
respective homes. We have endeavored to
rive in THE GLOBE, from day to day, fuli
and detailed accounts of the proceedings.
verbatim copies of the addresses delivered,
ca far as possible, and such abstracts and
notices of other papers and addresses as
could he obtained 1t is more than proba-
ble-it would be the greatest wonder in the
history of journalism anywhere if it 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 TIE 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 GLOBE, contains almost a
full account Of the history Of Walingford,
. 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
'inctivc history of its own, This, however,
$ merely an ephemeral publication, and
len Yeas hence il will be difficult to find
as many copies thereof for reference We
hid occasion, a 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 delegate there
from to one of our earlier conventions We
have not, as yet had the pleasure of seeing
iir. Bakers paper upon that subject, but
Nc understand that it places the matter be-
yond question or doubt Such valuable
contribution TO Vermont history, as this,
ought not be lost in newspaper With
the possible exception of Bennington, no
complete file of Vermont newspaper, of
any age, can be found and in the case of
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 belieyc-unless we are
mistaken in reference to Bennington and
that should prove an exception, if so Gov
ernor Hall will please correct us-that a
complete file of a newspaper fifty years old
can be found in the state. If we are wrong
we should be glad to be corrected We
oldest Rutland newspaper, but there are
some, to lis, 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, at their centennial in a
form for permanent preservation. 1t is a
YS hfy owe t 9 emff S Is 81 fe tt FITS Is a9d
yidual enterprise. We do not suppose any
money can be made out of it, as in the
wealthy town of Rutland the individual
who published the account of her " CEN
tennal" was and still is out of pocket over
Il hundred dollars. Individuals ought not
to make these sacrifices for the good of the
whole, but let the public spirited citizens
of Wallingford take hold of this matter,
make permanent record of it, add other
historical papers, if thought best, and d-
vide the cost between them. But, in any
event, let us have an enduring record made.