The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-08-01
NEwBURVs CELEBRATION.
Town Will Observe Its 15oth Ami
versary.

versary.
Newbury, July 31.-Newbury is to
have an Old Home Week celebrating
the 150th anniversary of its settle
ment Exercises are to begin on Sun
day August IL, with a union service
at the Methodist church in Newbury
village at which time Rev. Joseph f.
King, d. d., president of the Fort Ed
ward Institute, New York, will
preach. DR.. King was principal OF
the old Newbury Seminary from
1S4S-53.
In the afternoon there will be
union service in the Congregational
church. opened by a historical ad-
dress by Horace w. Bailey, followed
by an address on the Ideals of the
Early Settlers" by Rev. John M.
Thomas, d. d, president of Middle
bury College.
Monday will be observed at West
Newbury by a reunion of all the OF
families in the forenoon, and appro-
pirate literary exercises held in the
Union meeting house in the after
noon.
Tuesday forenoon the exercises
defeating the markers on several
historical spots vii be held in Chad
wick hall at .Newbury village. In the
afternoon exercises connected with
the dedication of amonument to Gen.
acob Bayley, the founder of the town,
will be held in the Con fegational
church, and an address will be deliv
cred by Edwin A. Bayley of LeXing-
ton, Mass, a descendant of Gen. Bay
ley. The monument is located in a
conspicuous spot on the village com
mon.
In the evening Oxbow Chapter, d.
a, R., will tender a reception to Gov.
Mead ana stan and other distinguish
ed guests.
On Wednesday forenoon there will
be a reunion of the students of Old
Newbury Seminary with appropriate
exercises in the Methodist church at
which it is hoped that Senator Dill
bingham, an alumnus, will preside.
Old Newbury Seminary opened its
doors in the fall of 1S43, continuil
until 1868 when it was removed by
the Vermont conference to Montpe
lier, being now known as Montpelier
Seminary.
On Wednesday afternoon the Or.
ang County Veterans Association will
hold reunion and will be addressed
by Gov. Mead and others,
Thursday the exercises will be at
Wells River village, where a marker
will be erected at the starting point
of the historic Bayley-Hazen military
road Nevers band of Concord will
furnish music.
The historic spots to be marked
are where the first meeting house
was built in 1854, the first in the
Connecticut valley in the state of
Vermont. This marker is erected by
OXbow Chapter, ID. A. r.
f. A marker will be placed on the site
of the old court house built in 175].
in which county courts were held f,g
Gloucester county, later Orange cogl-
ty, until Chelsea was made the sh e
town in 1896. The session of Iso
legislature for the year 1887 was h
in this building.
Another marker will be placed on
the site of the old state house, or
ected by subscription, for the pUr-
pose of concentrating the legisla
ture OF 1901.
\ marker will be erected on the
Oxbow to perpetuate the memory Of
Col. Thomas Johnson. a revolutionary
hero.
Gen. Jacob Bayley was an officer
in the French and Indian wars, com
mander-in-chief of the northern divis.
ion OF the American army during the
Revolutionary War with Headquarters
at Newbury. He was the instigator
of the BayleyHazen military road
and builder of the southern portion of
it. He was a member of the council
of safety, being leader in the civil
and military atfairs of early Yer
mont. There are over 200 of his de
scendants now living in Newbury.
This celebration promises to be
one of the most important historic
ones held in the state for many years.
the town of Newbury having patriot
cally appropriated money for the pur-
pose.