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In addition to the usual in-door attractions of Fruits, Flowers, 

 Vegetables, and the various articles of Domestic manufacture, 

 which -^verc of the usual high order of excellence, a new feature 

 was this year introduced — a Fair initiated, managed and sustained 

 by the ladies of the several towns in the county for the benefit of 

 the Society, to which noble contributions were made by the towns 

 of Franklin, Canton, Medway, Dorchester, Medfield, Sharon, Ded- 

 ham and others, and which proved to be one of the great attrac- 

 tions of the day. The Society are deeply indebted to the active 

 and earnest cooperation of the ladies for the successful issue of 

 the year's operations, as well as for the important service which 

 they have rendered from the beginning, which it affords us great 

 pleasure thus to acknowledge. 



The net receipts for the year past, are the largest that have 

 ever been paid into the Treasury, and afford gratifying evidence 

 of the success of a Society which was organized for the benefit of 

 the great mass of the people of the county, whose interests it has 

 ever labored to promote and sustain. 



MARSHALL P. WILDER, President. 

 HENRY 0. HILDRETH, Recording Secretary. 



