The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-10-06
WaiIingford Fair ana Centennial.

WaIIingford Fair ana Centennial.
The one hundrcdth anniversary of the
settlement of the town of Wallingford |
will be celebrated and the third annual fair |
of the Otter Creek Valley Association, held |
on Franklin Square, Walingford, on |
Wednesday and Thursday, October 10 and |
16, 1873.
1t has been thought proper to combine
the centennial with the fair, for the Dur |
pose of exhibiting the progress of cen
tury in agriculture and mechanic arts.
Such a combination would seem appropriate
to celebrate the historic event of the settle.
ment of one of the most prosperous com
munitics of Rutland county. In 1876 the
organization of the American government
is to be celebrated by grand exhibition of
the progress of all classes of industry for
an hundred years, as the most fitting
commemoration of the declaration of free
and Independent people. So is it suitable
that the citizens of an intelligent commu-
nifty should gather at the end of a century
and compare notes and contrast the institu-
tons of the fathers with those of the
children who have cultivated the fields
and hillsides their ancestors cleared away.
preparatory for the generations which
were to follow; to compare the advantages
the children of the present day have with
the limited opportunities and rude methods
of former day to mark the progress of
religion among the people as well as to
note the changes in mechanical arts. Es-
pecally is the latter worthy of consdera-
ton from the fact that Wallngford has
presented superior manufacture that leads
the world among the useful inventions. If
every town had been thus fortunate in
placing before the nations a mechanical in
vention of great usefulness and value as to
attract the attention and find sale in the
markets of the new and old worldit would
be fact sufficient to commemorate. and
the progress of the United States could be
cvea more distinctly marked than by the
collection of them at the Grand Exposition
at Philadelphia Wallngford has gained
such celebrity in the mechanic arts by one
invention-the Bachelor Forks-as to
have become world-known by that alone.
This may seem simple incident but COM
bine this one with the inventions of the
United States and consider the grand
total when separated into the
communities where they originated. and
even the proper and public notice. on
such an occasion seemed cminently appro
pirate. The suggestion is made that pa
per giving the history and improvements of
the Bachelor fork would prove one of the
most interesting and valuable records that
could be presented at Observation-Disclosures
NAL. An exhibition of the original with
the various improvements, side by side.
would prove feature of rare interest.
Desiring to spread the notice of this in
tcrcstng occasion far and widc-that a
grand gathering of the sons and daughters
tiers and former residents and citizens of
Rutland county may assemble at Wallng-
ford next week,wc give the full programme
of the occasion, com mencing with the
LIST OF OFFICERS-CE
PRESIDENT.
Col. Dyer Townshcnd.
VICE PRESIDENTS
Hon. Harvey Button.
l.. w. Congdon.
Waldo Allen.
SECRETARY
L. w. Kent
MARSiIALs.
III l. Warner.
II II Strong.
COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS.
III X Strong.
Geo ii Harris.
l. ii Warner.
BENZ Z Grape
Isaac II Fuller
OFFICERS OF THE FAIR.
President-Aaron Aldrich, Clarendon.
Vice Presdents-Judah ii Rounds. Tin
mouth ID X Rogers, DANNY Edwin