Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-08-01
NEWBURY TO HAVE
BIG CELEBRATION
Town Will Mark Its 150th Ami
versary by Exercises during
Old Home Week.

Newbury, July os.--Ncwbury is to
have an Old Home Week celebrating
,he 15oth anniversary of its settle
nent Exercises are to begin on sun
d,y. August II, with a union service
at the Methodist church in Newhury
village Mt which time the Rev. Joseph
f. King, u. ~, president of the Fort
Edward Institute. New York, will
preach. Doctor KING was principal of
the old Newbury Seminary from 1s4s-
81.
In the afternoon there will he
union service in the congregational
Church. opened by a historical address
by Horace w. Bailey. followed by an
address on the ideals of the Early
settlers" by the Rev. John NJ. Thomas,
i. D., president of Middlebury College.
Monday will be observed at West
Ncwbury by n reunion of all the old
families in the forenoon. and appropri-
ate literary exercises held in the Union
westinghouse in the afternoon.
Tuesday forenoon the exercises dedi-
eating the markers on several his
toric spots will he held in Chadwick
hall at Newbury village. In the after
noon exercises connected with the ded
ication of a monument to General
Jacob Bayley. the founder of the town,
will be held in the CONGREGATIONAL
Church. and an address will be deliv-
cred by Hon. Edwin a. Bayley Of Lex
ington, Mass. a descendant of General
Bayley. The monument Is located in
n conspicuous spot on the Village Com
mon.
In the evening Oxbow Chapter, D.
A. r.. will tender a reception to Cover
nor Mead and staff and other distinguish
cd guests.
On Wednesday forenoon there will he n
reunion of the students Of Old Newbury
Seminary with appropriate exercises in
the Methodist Church at which It is hoped
that Senator Dillingham;. an alumnus, will
preside.
MOVED TO MONTPELIER IN 'sS.
Old Newbury Seminary opened its doors
in the fall of 1894. continuing until 1868
when II was removed by the Vermont
conference to Montpelier. being now
known as Montpelier Seminary.
on Wednesday afternoon the Orange
County Veterans association will hold a
reunion and will be addressed by Cover
nor Mead and others.
Thursday the exercises will be at Wells
River village. where a marker will be
erected at the starting point Of the his
toric Bayley-Hasen military road. New
er's band of Concord will furnish music
The historic spots to he marked are
where the first Westinghouse was built
In 1854. the first In the Connecticut valley
In the State OF Vermont. This marker is
erected by Oxbow Chapter, D. A. r.
A marker will be placed on the site OF
the old courthouse built in 1773, in which
county courts were held for Gloucester
county. later Orange county until Chel.
sea was made the shire town in 1896
The session of the Legislature for the
year 1857 was held in this building.
Another marker will be placed on the
site of the Old State house. erected by
subscription. for the purpose of com.
memorating the Legislature OF 1901.
A marker will be erected on the Ok
bow 10 perpetuate the memory OF Col
onel Thomas Johnson. a Revolutionary
hero.
GENERAL HAS 200 DESCENDANTS
Gen. Jacob Bayley was an officer In
the French and Indian Wars. COM
manderin-c of the northern di.
vision Of the American army during
the Revolutionary War with head.
quarters at Newbury. He was the in.
stiCator of the Bayley Hazen mill
tary road and builder of the southern
portion of 1t. He was q member o
the council OF safety, beng a lea lei
in the civil and military affairs o.
early Vermont. There are over 20'
Of hrs descendants now living in New
bury.
This celebration promises to be on
of the most important historic on
held in the state for many years. th
town of Newbury having patrioticall!
nnpronriated moneY for the purpose.