Reminiscences of Children's Fair (Conclusion)

Conclusion

Records and Reminiscences of Children’s Fair

“Seeking to make idle hours useful hours, I have written it in my old age Please accept my old RECORDS AND REMINISCENCES.” - C. H. Obear - July 8, 1911

Conclusion

NOTICE AT THE CLOSE OF CHILDREN'S EXERCISES.

To be sold at auction!
   In Charity's aid,
For the help of the needy,
   And the Gospel's spread. 
Articles of fancy,
   Vegetables and fruit,
In small lots or large ones 
   Customers to suit!
The place of the auction, 
   The hall at the east,
Just above where you gathered 
   For the harvest feast,
Where the things to be sold 
   Will stand in full view
The time of the sale
   Is just half-past two. 
Please make generous bids,
   And give good attention 
To the sales going on,
   And the articles we mention.

THE LAND WE LIVE IN.

Hurrah, for the land we live in!
   Over which, from sea to sea,
From Pilgrim's Rock to Alaska 
   Floats the banner of the free.

'Tis the land our fathers fought for,
   The land for which they bled, 
And its fair fields have been watered 
   With the patriot blood they shed.

None brighter wakes in the sunshine, 
   All alive with the arts of Peace; 
None fairer sleeps in the moonlight, 
   When the hum of its toilers cease!

'Tis the land all the nations honor,
    And where e'er its flag is unfurled, 
Taking new heart of courage, 
   Man again has hope for the world!

God bless the land we live in! 
   God help us on land and sea,
In North-land or in South-land, 
   Her faithful sons to be.

Net proceeds of Children's Fair, financially,


for forty-nine years, --------------------- $4123 95
Average sum per year added for 50th year --- $84 16
The largest sum in 1909 -------------------- $112 00
Smallest sum in 1878 ------------------------ $44 00
Average per year --------------------------- $84 18

157th Children’s Fair - It Rained

August 2018

James Roger diary entry

17th August 1913

Warm day and muggy; wind easterly. Mr. Lord preached from Acts 17: 26—“God who has made of one blood, etc.” About 3 p.m. there was a severe wind, rain, and thunderstorm. 2 inches of water fell within the hour. Our Crawford peach tree was blown down and several trees around also much fruit. About 5 p.m. David was called away to an alarm of brush fire on Binnie [sic] Hill started by lightning striking a tree. No rain had fallen there. He came back about 7 p.m., the fire being under control when they got there. Very few at the evening service which closed at 7:30 p.m.

Today!

163rd Children’s Fair - August 17, 2024

• New Ipswich Congregational Church

• 150 Main Street, New Ipswich, NH

• 10 AM - 3 PM

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