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its dinner, \vc may calculate on as much loss at least as the din- 

 ner netted one year ago, which was $145.76, making a tutal fall- 

 ing off in receipts of $269.44. Some money has been expended 

 on the buildings, as they were sadly out of repair, but the gene- 

 ral expenses were kept down as low as was consistent with a two- 

 days fair. The society depends for its existence upon the inter- 

 est the people take in it and the patronage they give it ; and 

 when parties the most deeply interested in the society's financial 

 prosperity decline to donate any money, how can we expect the 

 average outsider to enthuse much over it ? What is needed most is 

 an interest as universal as it should be enthusiastic, and a willing- 

 ness on the part of every member of the Worcester North to 

 contribute their mite once a year, at least, towards making the 

 fair a success. 



The following premiums remain uncalled for, and revert to 

 the society. Most of them were donated. 



City of Fitchburg, 



E. A. Goodrich, 

 Dr. Geo. Jewett, 

 Dana L. Fuller, 

 Rodney Wallace, 

 L. J. Brown, 

 Dr. F. B. Joy, 

 Joseph Gushing, 



F. A. Whitney, Leominster, 

 L, Kinsman, 

 Jacob H. Fairbanks, 

 Geo. J. Allen, 

 Platts & Haven, 

 John F. Bruce, 



Calvin Underwood, Worcester, 

 High Street Grammar Scliool, 

 Day Street Grammar School, 

 West Fitchburg Grammar School, 

 High Street Secondary School, 



