The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-01
WILLISTON'S GLORY
WAS CELEBRATED
Many People Participated in Observance
of 15oth Anniversary of Founding
of the Town.

Williston, Aug 1.-The people Of Will
liston yesterday celebrated the l50th an
niversary Of the founding of their town,
and the attendance at the exercises was
estimated to be more than 5000 There
was a parade in the forenoon, followed
| by a program of sports, speaking and
music in the afternoon and a pageant
and fireworks in the evening.
The parade was led by Sherman's Mill
tary band of Burlington. The first three
| floats represented the nation, the state
and the original inhabitants of the coun.
try. The first float was draped with the
stars and stripes with large as life
Goddess of Liberty, the whole svmboliz-
ing America; the next was cleverlu de-
vised to reproduce the state seal, and
on the third redmen crouched beneath
hemlock boughs. The next feature Of
the parade was the coming of the Chit
tenden family in their old colonial cos
TUNES on horseback. First the old gov
ernor and Mrs. Chittenden. Frank Clark
and Mrs. H. NJ Fay; then the young
Chittendens, Mr. and Mrs. Wright Clark,
Miss Sylvia Warren, Florence MetcaIf,
Ella johnson and Charles Brown The
prize winner among the historical floats
proved to be the Vermont float, designed
and presented by II. NJ. Fay
Other features of the parade were an
OK team conveying a colonial bride and
groom, Blossom Goodrich and Helen
Clark, with a driver, Howard Merrill,
to complete the group, an old stage
coach, a money wagon, the boys of '6l
in their faded blue uniforms, fine float
occupied by the Kings Daughters and
a marching detachment of the Modern
Woodmen of America. To depict the
town of the present there were a num-
Der OF business mems floats. The prize
winner among these was put on by f. r.
Brown The float brought together in a
decorative and instructive way the strik
ing features of modern department
store. A purely fanciful feature of the |
parade was float carrying an immense
shoe banked in with pink flowers and
six white fairies.
Besides the large number of floats and |
the marching bodies in the parade, |
procession of decorated. automobiles and |
a file of bicycle riders added color to the
scene. The prize for the most striking |
ly decorated automobile was won BY c. |
d. Warren whose car had the appear.
ance Of chrysanthemum garden on
wheels. G. r johnson and r. O. Arms
received honorable mention. Among the |
bicycle riders the prize for the best dec
Dration went to boy from Burlington
who did not give his name to the Judges.
Honorable mention was made Of Harris
Metcalf and +. y. Benson The parade
also included a rather imaginary ele-
1hant and a very realistic Holstein bull
In the afternoon. Warren r. Austin
# St Albans delivered an Grafton on
The First Republic and Governor A.
w. Fletcher made a few remarks. after
which other speakers talked briefly
The pageant in the evening was quite
he most brilliant feature Of the celebra-
ion, The parts v.se all taken BY Will
iston people. and the tabeaux portrayed
ii vivid form the l50 eventful years
# Willistons existence. No small part
# the attractiveness of the pageant
ras due to the natural amphithestre of
reat beauty in which il was held. The .
Genes depicted were as follows; /,
THE Wilderness An Indian camp +,
ictorious war party returns with cap !
ives preparations for the torture; sur
rise by whites under Thomas Chitten- /;
en-; rescue; Mr.. Chttenden decides 10 !,
eturn later and settle here
The Charter, June I, ls63'--Granting :
( charter by Governor Wentworth; read.
x OF excerpts from original charter
Domestic Scene Guests arrive and /,
nnounce that General Lafayette will !
top at Williston on his way to Bur
ngtOn.
arrival of Lafayette Reception; !
linuet !
"In the Midst of Toll Comes Pleasure" ),
The toilers; pleasure; the dance; trou
e; reclaiming the flock.
"The Civil Wa" Answering tho call !,
Rural Pastimes' The singing school;
le husking bee; the Virginia reel \
"The Spirit Of the Present" Amer =
a.
The celebration came to close with
display of fireworks. A collection Of
storical relics and heirlooms was shown
the academy building throughout the d
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