The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-10-02
SEND INVITATION
TO THE PIONEERS
OF WAYNE COUNTY
Residents of. the County Over
Eighty Years Of Age Are
Urged to Take Part in the
County Centennial.
GRACE CHURCH WILL
BE MEETING PLACE
Aged Citizens Will Be the
Guests of the Festival Man.
agement and will Be Given
an Auto Ride.

B. w. Kelly, chairman of the COM
mittee In charge of arrangements for
the entertainment of the pioneers at
the Centennial day celebration of the
Fall Festival, has addressed q general
letter to all of the older residents in
the county. Those over so years OF
age are requested to assemble at the
Grace M. e. church on Centennial day.
where arrangements will be made for
their entertainment and comfort. The
pioneers will be the guests of honor
of the Festival association. The letter
which he has addressed to the pio-
neers is as follows:
To the Pioneers of Wayne County:
Centennial Day, October z, will be
the greatest day Of the Richmond Fall
Festival and one of the most inter
esting In the history of the county.
The big parade at o'clock will repre-
sent in q striking and beautiful man
ner the great progress which the
grand old county of Wayne has made
in the one hundred years of its his
tory. In 1t will be seen side by side
OK team and automobile, home made
stool and luxurious divan. sickle and
selfbinder. home-spun and satin. log
school house and educational insti-
tuition" and many another reminder
of the vast difference between the
Wayne county of 1910 and that of
1910.
To Recognize Services.
But interesting as this may be to
the average onlooker. to no one can
1t mean more than to you. who, for
the greater part Of the century. have
been actively assisting in bringing
about these great and beneficient
changes. and 1t IL with an earnest de-
sire to recognise and honor your SER
vices. however commonplace they may
appear to some OF you to have been.
that we invite you to be present and to
occupy positions Of honor at the pub
lie exercises and in the parade.
We want every person eighty years
old and over In the county to come to
Grace Methodist church at I o'clock.
October Z: there you win be met by .
committee who will see that you are
made comfortable. and at one-thirty
you will be given seats In automobiles
or carriages and win proceed to fol-
low the line Of march in the place Of
honor In the parade. to the place Of
meeting, East Main Street Friends
church. Here your eonveyances will
stop and the entire parade pass by you
10 that you may zee It an. Then you
will be taken to the speakers platform
where Q program in honor Of the pio-
neers Of Wayne county has been n.
ranged. Good music. short addresses
by Hon. Addison C. Harris. Hon VIM.
Dudley Foulke.. the governor Of lndi-
ana and others win be parts Of the
program. After the adjournment, II
you 20 desire. conveyance win be
again provided to any. point In the city
where you may desire to 60 to begin
your homeward journey or remain for
the night
Next We want al pioneers between
seventy and eighty years old to assem-
bio On the grounds Of East Main
Street Friends church and watch the
parade 20 BY. Then We want you to
take the seats reserved for you next
to the speakers stand and remain dur
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