Bridgeton pioneer., 1911-07-27
Old Home Week to be LARGE
Affair.
PROGRAM IS COMPLETE
Celebration Marks Fifty Years of
Vineland and Anniversary Will
be Important.

will be held by the residents of Vine
land, beginning Sunday, August 6. to
mark the semi-centennial of the found
ing of Vineland by Charles X. Lands,
who on August 8, 1851, drove the first
stake in what is now the center of the
municipality.
On the opening day there will be
a parade of Sunday school pupils and
church members. Two bands will
lead the procession, which will end
at the park, where a mass meeting
will be held. Professor E. C. Nash is
training chorus of several hundred
voices.
In the evening a union meeting will
be held in the auditorium, at which
time the chorus will render, "The
Heavens Are Telling. Monday, the
Vineland Fire Department, with de-
partments from other towns, expects
to make the grandest display this end
of New Jersey has ever seen A re-
.ception at the Baker House is being
arranged for the evening, when all the
former settlers who respond to the
800 invitations sent out, will be well
coined home among the vines and the
pines. Tuesday, August s, will be the
banner day.
The merchants and the social, re-
ligious and fraternal organizations
have banded together to give the
grandest street pageant ever attempted
here. In the evening the historical
sidelights of the town will be exploit
ed in the auditorium
Rev. DR.. d. H. King, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church for twen-
ty-five years, will talk on the Spirit
and Religion. At night the public
schools; Professor E. R. Johnstone.
principal of the New Jersey Training
School; Royal P. Tuller, Judge of the
Circuit Court, and John A. Ackley
will give addresses
Wednesday, Lyon Post, No. 10, G. A.
R., will unyeil the soldiers and sailors
monument and hold a parade and ex-
ercises during the forenoon. In the
afternoon the Floral Society, which
was organized nearly fifty years ago,
VIII hold reception and show the
visitors what has been done in fiori-
culture. At night the different bands
will give concerts.
Thursday is to be aerial day and
monoplane day. The program also in
cludes three parachute balloon drop
and like attractions all day.
Friday is to be Educational Day.
Superintendent Unger will have an
exhibition of manual training work
and the girls basket ball teams and
base ball teams have agreed to give
contests.
In the evening the High School
Alumni Association will hold a recep-
ton and booklet containing the his
tory of the school will be given tn
every visitor.
For Saturday the success of the pro-
gram is in the hands of woman.
Mrs. Annie F. E. Myers, wife of Will
liam Myers. She has been a leading
spirit in the grange for years, and the
people put her at the head of Farmers
Day. Mrs. Myers is preparing to build
monument of fruit and flowers in
the middle of Lands avenue and mar
shall parades by the farmers that will
make the windup one of prominence.
Rev. F. A. DeMaris, pastor of the
First M. e. Church, is chairman of the
general committee, and w. E. Rogers.
secretary. The different committees
are headed as follows: Executive, G. E.
stevenson with w. H. Blake, secre-
tary; educational, J. J. Unger; G. A.
R., D. H. Burge; farm and garden,
Mrs. A. F. E. Myers; religious DR.
King; floats, w. Kennedy; G "A. r.
0. W. Vernal; information, w. S. Dun
gan; souvenir, w. H. Blake