Excerpt from Centennial Celebration: Historical Address by Roger Welles, Esq. And Poem by Miss. Mary K. Atwood, Delivered in the Congregational Church, Newington, Conn., July 4, 1876 At a meeting of citizens, early in the summer, committees were appointed and assigned to special duties; and to their well-directed efforts is to be at tributed much Of the success of the celebration. The day was ushered in with firing of cannon and ringing of bells. At ten O'clock the Congregational church, which had been Opened for the occasion, was densely crowded with an eager throng of citizens and strang ers; and Charles K. Atwood, at the invitation of the Committee of Arrange ments, took the chair. 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.