Author: Bethel Bethel

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-19

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 9781331837008

Excerpt from Report of the Centennial Celebration at Bethel, August 26, 1874 The citizens of Bethel feeling that an event so important as the time of its settlement was worthy of due commemoration, a meeting of its citizens was held at the vestry of the Congregational Church, on Bethel Hill, Jul 14, 1874. The meeting was organized by the election of Major Abernethy Grover, as chairman, and Richard A. Frye, Esq., as secretary. It was voted to have a Centennial Celebration on Wednesday August 26, 1874. A committee of arrangements was chosen to make the necessary arrangements for such an occasion, consisting of Nathaniel T. True, M. D., Hon. Robert A. Chapman, David F. Brown, Esq., Richard A. Frye, Esq., and Moses T. Cross, Esq., with authority to make such additions to their numbers as they should deem proper. At a meeting of the committee, held at R. A. Frye's office, July 15, they perfected their organization by the election of N. T. True, chairman, and R. A. Frye, secretary. They voted to add ten members to their number to aid them, as follows, John D. Hastings, and Elias S. Bartlett, for the east part of the town; Israel G. Kimball, and Augustus M. Carter, for the middle part of the town; Samuel B. Twitchell, and Moses A. Mason, for the north side of the river; Elbridge G. Wheeler, Gilman P. Bean, and David M. Grover, for the west part of the town; and Major Gideon A. Hastings, for Bethel Hill. David F. Brown, Moses T. Cross, and Robert A. Chapman, were chosen a committee to select a place for holding the centennial meeting. At a meeting of the committee, held July 18, it was voted to extend an invitation to N. T. True, M. D., to deliver the historical address at the Centennial Celebration. It was decided that the dinner should be a basket picnic and that such table accommodations be procured for each school district as may be required. Messrs. Brown, Wheeler and Kimball were chosen a committee to appoint a person in each school district to see to the furnishing of the tables, and to have each district represented in the procession. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.