The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-03-18
BOOMING THE
CENTENNIAL
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
MADE AT MEETING HELD FRI
DAY EVENING
LITERATURE READY

bers of the Board of Trade, the Busi-
ness Mems Association, and the Cen
trail Labor Union, full executive pow
ers were conferred to the committee
heretofore known as the Centennial
Committee" They were empowered
also to enlarge the membership of the
committee to fifteen or more if neces-
sary.
Each of the three organizations, ac-
lively engaged in promoting the CEN
tennial namely: The Business Mems
Association, the board of Trade, and
the Central Labor Union, will be en-
titled TO five members on the execu-
tive committee The committee will
hold meeting Sunday afternoon at
2:30 at the Courtland, for the purpose
of choosing the new members. At
present the committee consists of
eight members: c. A. Dougherty
James A. Rice A. M. McCarty, r. B.
Kenny, DR.. James Fraunfelter. James
A. Robinson, John e. Monnet and c.
n Weary.
The executive committee will have
the power to appoint the five per-
sons to represent Canton and Canton
township in the Centennial Commits
sion. 1t is probable that these will
be appointed Sunday afternoon.
Sub-Committees will also be chosen.
Efforts will be made to secure a per-
manent headquarters for the Centen-
nial Commission and the executive
committee.
small pamphlet, containing infor-
nation concerning the centennial,
ig
pared for distribution throughout the
county and state. A circular, contain
ing a brief sketch of the life of Gem
eral and Molly" Stark, and also data
of the centennial, is being printed to
be distributed about the schools, of
the county in order to arouse interest
in educational departments.
James A. Rice, secretary of the cen
tennial committee, suggests that bus
iness men Of the city be supplied with
the centennial pamphlets and that
they be requested to send these out
with their ordinary mail matter.
On behalf of the centennial COM
mittee, Secretary James A. Rice, read
the following report at last nights
meeting which was unanimously
adopted:
The Stark County Centennial and
Industrial Exposition is now assured,
and will be held at Canton on Septem-
Der 8 to II, 1909, inclusive.
The committee recently appointed
from the Canton Board of Trade and
Business Mems association has held
meetings with the Boards of Trade and
Business Mems associations of ALI
ance, Massillon, Louisville, Navarro
and other villages, and have received
assurances Of prompt and complete CO.
operation on all hands. Local organ
Izations are already being formed in
substantially all of the cities, villages
and townships of the county, and the
active interest taken assures a COM
plete success of this great venture.
The Industrial Exposition feature
will consist of exhibits Of all goods
and things manufactured and produced
in Stark county, and when it is consid-
cred that more than six thousand spe-
cifiC articles of manufacture are made
and produced in Stark county the huge
proportion of this exposition can be-
readily appreciated. These exhibits
will also include products from Brown
township of Carroll county and Green
and Franklin townships of Summit
county, they having all been a part of
Stark county as originally established;
the first township was taken off of
Stark county to make part of Carroll
county in 1888, and the last two town
ships were taken off of Stark county
TO make a part of Summit county in
1870.
In addition to the exhibits from the
territory above named there will be
Of 1, srkz TO-
and educational interest from London
berry New Hampshire, where General
Stark was born; Bennington, New
Hampshire, where General Stark
fought his great battle, and Manches-
ter, New Hampshire, where General
Stark is buried. These exhibits will
consist of relics and paintings, and
some articles of manufacture which
are not made or produced in Stark
county.
Relics and matters of historical in
terest will be exhibited in various
rooms in the Auditorium building and
programs consisting of public ad-
dresses and musical numbers will be
rendered each day and evening at the
Auditorium and in other halls of the
city. All these entertainments, as
well as all exhibits, will be free to the
public, it being determined that no ad-
mission shall be charged to any of the
features of this great exposition. The
addresses will be made principally by
men who were born In Stark county
but who have lived the active part
of their lives elsewhere and attained
great fame as business and profession
al men, educators, legislators, cabinet
ofieers, governors of various states,
5urists, eto.
On the opening day of the centen-
nial and exposition there will be an
industrial parade participated in by all
the manufacturers, merchants, hus-
bandmen and labor organizations IN
Stark county, and the townships of
Carroll and Summit counties hereto
fore named. This parade is certain to
eclipse anything OF the kind ever held
in Northern Ohio, il not anywhere In
the state. Railroads throughout Ohio
and six other states will make a spe-
Cial low fare rate 70 this centennial
and exposition, and only slight consid-
eratioh of the vast number of people
who have either gone out from Stark
county to live elsewhere in the coun.
try, or are descendants of those who
nov live or formerly iyec In Stark
county, Is necessary to enable a fair
estimate OF the vast numbers that
will seize this opportunity TO visit old
Molly Stark. II Will be strictly a
county affalr and every business and
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