News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-08-21
OLD HOME WEEK AT STOWE.
A Successful Celebration.

Ludy nave lurul5neQ more elaborate
entertainment for their guests, it is
safe to say that nowhere was greater
cordiality manifested in their recep-
ton.
While the week was well filled with
excursions to the various points of
interest and beauty in which the town
abounds and the evenings made pleas
urable by open air concerts, etc., Fri
day was the great day. Early in the
morning people in teams began to
arrive from different parts of Stowe,
Morristown and other LamoiIle
county towns, while the Mt. Mans
field Electric railroad brought big
carloads from Waterbury and Water
bury Center. By noon a crowd of
people variously estimated at from
three to five thousand filled the
streets. Perfect weather, clear, cool
and bracing, added to the pleasure of
the day and the crowd was model
of good behavior.
The exercises of the forenoon were
held in Unity church. President C.
l.. Mcmahon of the Old Home Week
Association welcomed the guests of
the town in brief but huppily worded
address and very interesting re-
sponses were made by Hon. Walter
BigeIow OF Salem, Mass, Rev. Mr..
Ball of Passaic, N. j, Mr.. Leonard of
New York and DR.. Styles OF st. Johns
bury. Prayer was offered by Rev. O.
D. Clapp OF the Methodist church, and
several letters of regret read by the
Secretary, Mr.. FL. G. Thomas, a poem
by c. A. Lamson and paper by Mrs.
George Wilkins were read by Rev.
Mr.. Gale. Special music added to
the pleasure of the exercises.
Many of the visitors enjoyed picnic
dinners at the Palisades and other
spots, and large number were en-
tertained by the Grand Army and W.
R. c. in the vestry of Unity church,
the proceeds, nearly seventy dollars,
being added to the soldiers monu-
ment fund. At half-past two the
sports on Main street began. Each
of the various contests had a large
number of entries and the contest
ants entered into the spirit of the oc-
casion with so much ardor that each
OF the races proved close and excit-
ing. The different events and prize
winners were as follows:
I 100 yard dash, LIST Harry Smith, I'd
Craig Burt, 81 F. NJ Culver; sack
race, 1st John Williams, ID Neal
Chaplin, 81 John Campbell; three
legged race, LIST Smith and Burt, I'd
Campbell and Chaplin, 81 Campbell
and Morse; obstruction race, 1st
John Campbell, ID Levi Norway, Sd
James Campbell; broad Jump, Craig
Burt; bicycle race for boys under Ia
years, LIST Cred Walter, I'd George
Douglass, 3D. Ben Melvin; potato
race, 1st Craig Burt, I'd Eddie Muzzey !;
wheelbarrow race, LIST Neal Chaplin,
I'd Harry Smith, 81 Craig Burt. The
tug of-war, Village VS.. town, was q
great event. Geo. Sanborn captained
the village crew and E. G. Robinson
the town. The latter won by about
six feet, thus emitting them to one
of the Green Mountain Inns best
suppers, of which they all partook
heartily.
The evening program consisted of
an open air concert by Stowe Mill
tary Band, which also rendered it's
usual fine music during the day, and
of short addresses at Unity church
by Rev. c. P. Emery of Stowe, F. O..
Burt of Stowe, DR.. Lucien Lamson of
Hopedale, Mass, and Prot. Allen
Ball of Columbia University. Men
ton should also be made of the
amusing parades of "Sousa's" band
and the "Quick Relief" fire company,
with their grotesque costumes and
awe-inspiring music.
Among those registered during Old Home
| Week were D. B. Town and wife, Oakfed,
Wis; W, A. Small and wife, Morrisvle, Vt;
W. j. Fish and wife, Fitchburg, Mass; L. B.
Sherwin and wife, Hyde Park, Vt; I. r.
Styles, st. Johnsbury, Vt. E. R. Bigelow,
Salem, Mass; A. H. Bell and HI. M. Bell,
Passaic, N. j; Edgar Potter, So. Framing
ham, Mass; Fred Dutton, Stoneham, Mass;
Mrs. D. 0. Spear, Amherst, Mass; Eunice
| Pottle, New York City; Gem Pottle, st.
| Adams, Vt; Theodore Savage, Newburyport,
Mass; Annie Grout, Waterbury, Vt; Philo
Fuller, Chester. Vt; L. G. Moody, Waterbury,
| Vt; Mrs. Mary Fuller Ward, Chester, VT;
| Geo. Town and wife, South birmingham,
Mass; Allen o Bell, New York City; Paphro
D. Pike, New York City; Emmaline Waite,
Cambridge, Vt; G. Ii. Hodge, Motley, Mimi,
Fred Scribner, Bath, Maine; B. L. Shaw;
| Dover, N. a.; Elsie Boynton Dunnaven So.
birmingham, Mass; Mrs. Angelina james,
Wolcott, Vt; Mrs. Hattie Waite, Shorehan,
| Vt. G. r. Churchill Cedar Rapids, Iowa;
Edward LaFlam and wife, Lynn, Mass;
Elmer Wade, wife and daughter, Morrisvile,
| Vt; DR.. W. s. Gillette and children, Calais,
Vt; Mrs. Fred Pike, Newmen Grove, Neb.;
Fred Moulton, wife and daughter, Iowa;
Mrs, E. W. Webster, Marathon, n. J Geo.
Thompson, Montreal John II. Fellows,
Windsor, Vt; o K. Newton and wife, West
boro, Mass; Frank Robinson and wife,
Malone, N. Y : George Cheney and wife, Nor
risville; Arthur Cheney, Morrisville; Chas. Fl
A. Stafford, Morrsville; Ida Churchill, Nor
risville; o. D. Matthews, Worthwhile; DR..
Myron Stylts, Boston, Mass; George Clark,
Morrisvile; Walter X. Bigelow, Salem, Mass
Alva Bigelow, Boston, Mass; DR.. Edwin
Bigelow and lady, Wolcott, Vt; Geo. Fowler,
South birmingham, Mass; Ada Boynton
Fowler, So. birmingham, Mass. Clarence
Fowler, So. birmingham, Mass; MIR. and
Mrs. Beard, Watervile, Vt; Mrs. d. W.
shaw Manila, Iowa; l.. H. Lewis and 5. B.
Waite Hyde Park, Vt; Will Kaiser, wife and
family, Craftsbury, Vt; G. l.. Cowles and
wife, Craftsbury, Vt; Maud Raymond, En-
field, N. H.; Mrs. Mott. Newton, Mass; Mrs.
Henry Field Boston, Mass; Mrs. Albert
! Aagg