Albert Salisbury placed the following notice in the Whitewater papers in the first week of August, 1906:
"Believing that a Home-Coming Festival on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the first settlement of Whitewater would be a source of great enjoyment both to our home people and to those former residents now living elsewhere, and recognizing that such a celebration will demand thorough preparation and concerted effort, we the undersigned join in inviting all citizens of Whitewater interested in such an observance to meet in the City Hall on Monday evening, August 6th, at 7:30 o'clock, for the purpose
1. Of deciding whether a Home-Coming Festival shall be undertaken, and, if so,
2. Of electing a Committee of Arrangements to take general charge of the undertaking."