Invitation to the Fortnightly Club's Centennial Party

In 1903 the Fortnightly Club held a Centennial Party to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the Village of Worthington. The gathering was held at the home of Dickerson Welling, who lived in a large brick dwelling on the northeast corner of High Street and New England Avenue. The event was a benefit for a reading room to sponsored by the Fortnightly Club. The club was organized by a number of Worthington residents and was a literary study group meant to "stimulate intellectual and moral development and to promote good fellowship among its members." The group had a strong interest in the Shakespeare and therefore named itself the Fortnightly Club. The reading room grew into the Worthington Public Library Association by 1908.