Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-10
GREAT DAY.
All Came Home TO Wash
iagion Centennial.
Governor pIaisled Predicts a
New Trolley Line.
Interesting Historical Address by
senaior Staples.

Washington Mo. Aug . GSpeciaD.
Tho washington centennial us now
a thing Of the pasi and the whole al
fair vas a credit to the town. The
day was an ideal one. although the
! fog was heavy in the early morning it
cleared by 9 o'clock aud the remainder
of the day was pleasant but not hot.
The salute committee in the different
parts of the town early began oper-
ations by firing guns and ringing bells.
and Just as the sun was pecping up
over the eastern hills John l.. Howard
began To strike loo strokes on the
church bell at Razorville
The crowd began to gather at a very
early hour at the village where the
exercises were held People who had
| either themselves or their ancestors
| lived at some time i'm Washington
| from one side of the continent to the
other We're there. some even coming
| from California. quite a number had
| reached town several days in ad-
vance. Some will stay few days
after the celebration. Many had not
been here for years. Some left here
when they were children
! The centennial exercises early be
gan Sunday when Pastor Lidstone
preached an especially prepared cen
tennial sermon from Psalm t22.1, to
a crowtled house. The whole town
| was fairly ablaze with bunting and
| flags every schoohouse in town was
profusely decorated. The marshal,
/ Walter f. Morse, took charge of the
long parade and handled it in a mas
| terfai manner with the help of his
aids. WINS peering. Lyman Merry
| field Sidney Kacr and Ernest Light.
The chairman of the parade commit
Itee. r. X Ware. has worked long and
hard to make the parade success
land surely succeeded. II was headed
| by the Jefferson Band under the lead
ership of Mr.. Morrill, and no words
can express too strongly the efficiency
of this band. 1t surely will rank with
| the best in the State
The *irand Army and the Grange
| and the other orders were represented
and had beautiful floats, John L. How
| ard and -Kathalene Farrar rode horse
! back in the 1911 style dressed in an
lantque way on a big white horse who
| has for - years answered To the name
of jim and he felt the Importance of
the occasion and put ON the airs" of
la thousand dollar horse. Edward
| Peirpont and Gladys Mearse rode the
modern way each having a horse and
a modern riding habit Charles
| Witham. a former Washington boy
I t.-a 7 -, 1 =
ton on 5. :. Bartlett's big while horse
represented Columbia.
| The Mil fioat OF II. f. Farrar had on
it Alonzo Farrar. first; II. E. Farrar
his son, and Alonzo Farrar. second son
of IL T.. F2rrar, three general tons The
| Farrar's mill. so-ealled. at Razorvile
has been owned and operated by the
| Farrars for the past century.
Another float driven by James w
| F3rrar consisted of loom more thar
loo years old, operated by his SISTER
Mrs Mary Bowler, a spinning Hhee
operated By his sister, Mrs Melissa
Poore, and a flax wheel operated by
his brother. f. w Farrar, while still
another sister. Mrs Clara Clark, sat
with the rest of the family. Very earn
testify and industriously knitting the en-
tire outfit was drawn by the Major s
faithful horse "Huldale" r. c. Moorcs
th8d an old fashioned thoroughbracs
coach marked 1911. filed with old mer
and it was decidedly curiosity.
There were numerous clowns who
lplayed their part "a perfection. one
representing the Devil. II. +. Harral
had a float representing his lumber
null III operation Charles Savage lac
a float; Mrs. Minnie Clark. skiu1linl
milk in the old fashioned way. ant
Miss WaitY Savage on the same tl0af
Iskmming milk with a modern separa
tor Henry SukefortlI WAS dressed il
a very ancient manner, cutting woo,
with an axe, He was followed by
lmodern gasoline wood cutting machine
William Hunes had = big yoke of oxeI
with stone drag loaded with an ole
fashioned seraper and wooden blow
This was followed by an up-te-dat'
lroad mtchne. Charles Nanner mad
Ia big hit with his float, a log cabin
lhlled with people keeping house in al
Ianeient style. Another float had
miniature log cabin and modernl,
lc0nstructed house The Medicinal
lCamp of 80 boys were in the parad
idNt al inc iffNh StboNtS were on ltDdt
lhcaded bv superintendent Jesse over
Hook Mrs " NJ Staples had enc O
1.-THE pretticSt floats ever seen in an
Iparatle. representing her millinery, an
driyon by W, NJ staples, with Mrs
staples by his side and Miss Geue Me
serveY on the rear seat oscar Carol
an old Washington boy, @ho has re
Icently returned from New Mckee. tcp
Presented q cowboy. There were man,
lother features of the parade to'
mum arous 70 mention
The centennial has been agitated fo
lseveral years and al the March cow
Injecting, 1910. the town elected Willard
E. overlook. Arthur e Johnson ano
Jesse Overlook AS committee to en-
gineer the affair and l.. VI. Staples
historian They began to lay plans al
once. At the March meeting, 1911 the
town voted 5000 for the centennial.
The committee at once got together
an elected Willard Z. overlook chair
man. Arthur f. Johnston secretary
and Jesse overlook treasurer, and be-
gan 10 appoint committees and ap-
point meetings fer the whole town to