day afternoon. There were fifty-seven separate sections in the procession, representing various phases of pioneer life and prominent incidents in the eventful early history of Bucyrus and Crawford County. The first section represented the "Spirit of '76" and was contributed by the American Legion, which figured prominently through the entire celebration. There were many representations of Indians — Indians on the move, Indian squaws at work, Indian dances, Indians on ponies, Indian chiefs in council, etc. Colonel Crawford, of course, occupied a prominent place. There were sections representing his family, his cavalrymen, his capture by the Indians and his tragic burning at the stake. Johnny Appleseed was appropriately remembered. Early farming implements were in evidence. The founders of the city, Samuel Norton and Colonel James Kilbourne, were honored in a number of floats. Different organizations of Bucyrus and the townships of Crawford County contributed sections of this wonderful pageant and the present generation had a rare opportunity to witness the past history of this region move by in pleasing variety and progressive succession.

A center of special interest throughout the celebration was the Public Library of Bucyrus, where a really wonderful display of relics and souvenirs representing the entire history of Crawford County was on exhibition. These were systematically arranged with appropriate labels. A continuous stream of people passed through the building and enjoyed the opportunity to visit this exhibit. The celebration did much not only to revive interest in the past but to arouse local pride in present achievement. A historical society has been organized as a result of this centennial celebration and

it is safe to say that the interest manifested by Bucyrus in the early October days of 1921 will be made to live continuously in this organization.

Credit for the success of the celebration is due to the splendid spirit of co-operation among the various committees and organizations, civic, fraternal and religious. Many compliments were extended to Honorable John E. Hopley, Chairman of the Executive Committee, and General Edward Volrath, Treasurer, who were especially active in planning the celebration and who presided over a number of its functions.

A VISION FULFILLED

BY MAUD BUSHI ALFRED.

"Where there is no vision, the people perish."

When your committee honored me with a request for a place on the program of this celebration, which commemorates the founding of Bucyrus, I was filled with varying emotions, - pride, reverence, and perhaps, awe. Pride, that I, the great-granddaughter of Samuel Norton and Mary Bucklin Norton, could have the privilege of honoring their memory; reverence, that so hardy, so brave, so God-fearing, so kindly, so benevolent a forbear had been mine reverence for the loved ones I have known, who lie in the beautiful silent city which adjoins you in this, the place which was "the forest primeval," and now in the evolution and development of the years is your own thriving, progressive and growing city.

Should we not all indeed feel awe when we regard the progress of one hundred years? When Greatgrandfather Norton and his wife and six children and small company of followers blazed the path from their home in northeastern Pennsylvania and selected this spot because of its beauty, its richness of soil, and its promise, they found only the red man and prowling animals of the forest, and, seemingly, all that lay ahead was toil and hardship and deprivation. But they had a vision. Theirs was the spirit which had won for us our independence from the yoke of England.

It was the father of great-grandmother Bucklin Norton who caught the dying General Warren when he fell at Bunker Hill, and General Warren, together with Israel Putnam and Nathaniel Green, belonged to this family of sturdy manhood.

The first of our forbears in the Norton line came from Scotland, settling in Connecticut in 1675, so it would seem that the spirit of conquest and the will to overcome, had descended in large measure to these, the first settlers. It is an interesting bit of history that the battle of Saratoga was fought on and nearby my greatgreat-grandfather, James Norton's farm.

And so it was, that undaunted courage and the I WILL of all, opened the little clearing and made the first home in what is now Bucyrus.

Over mountain and valley, through tangled forest and grass-grown plain, over corduroy roads and Indian trail, fording streams, and through storm and sunshine, this little caravan came from the comparative security and comfort of their eastern home, to this, a wilderness of unknown dangers.

It is related of great-grandfather by one who knew him, that "he was a large athletic man, six feet tall, of strong determination, keen intelligence and full of the true spirit of enterprise."

There are many family traditions that from childhood I have heard, but it is not the personal touch upon which I wish to dwell, but the spirit which has given us what we have.

Can we appreciate, in even a slight degree, the lives of our pioneer women? Brave, capable, resourceful, undaunted by the hardships which they must bear; full too of the love of the beautiful, prizing knowledge, yet