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Excerpt from Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Celebration, New England Society of Orange, 1870-1895 At the monthly meeting of the New England Society of Orange, N. J., held on March 3, 1894, Vice-President Charles H. Mann in the chair, "Mr. George H. Brewer called attention to the fact that next year would be the twenty-fifth anniversary of the birth of the Society. Mr. Brewer thereupon moved that the President of the Society [Mr. John O. Heald] be instructed or authorized to appoint a committee of five members, the committee to be announced at the next monthly meeting of the Society; and that the duties of the committee shall be to arrange a plan for the proper celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the birth of the Society; that the committee shall report not later than the October meeting; and that the Corresponding Secretary shall be a member of that committee. The motion was duly seconded and carried"; Mr. Brewer giving notice that he did not desire and should be unable to serve on the committee. At the next monthly meeting, April 7, President Heald announced that he had appointed Messrs. William A. Brewer, Jr., chairman, Henry Graves, David A. Kennedy, Camillus G. Kidder, Isaac E. Gates, and Wendell P. Garrison (Corresponding Secretary). The Committee, having organized in October by making the chairman treasurer and Mr. Kennedy secretary, reported to the Society on November 3, through Mr. Kennedy, that as the true anniversary (May 12, 1895)would fall on Sunday, the most convenient date thereafter should be selected; that the exercises should embrace (1) a sketch of the history of the Society, by one of its members; (2) musical selections, vocal and instrumental; (3)an oration by some prominent New Englander; (4) a poem; and (5) a collation without wine. 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.