Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-04-26
MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT, APRIL 26, 1901.
FOR OLD HOME WEEK
ORGANIZATION MEETING TO BE HELD
IN MlDDLEBURY TUESDAY NEXT.

Local Association VIII BE Formed to Ar
range for Observance of Week i'm Aug
ust-Much Interest Aroused Throughout
State and Country.
Middlebury will fall in line early and
thereby insure a rousing celebration of
Old Home Week, Aug. l to 18th. Col.
Il. M. Chapman, the Addison county rep
resentative in the executive committee of
the State Association, has called a meet
ing to take place at the town hall at s
o'clock next Tuesday evening, April 30,
looking toward the organization Of
local association. 1t is to be hoped that
the meeting will be representative one;
it certainly should be well attended
Maine and New Hampshire have Sc
lected the same week as Vermont for
their Old Home Week celebrations. Both
of these sister states have observed with
marked success these reunion festivals in
previous years. Vermonters have the
reputation of being as patriotic as the
citizens Of any other state In the Union.
The Inauguration of Old Home Week this
year in Vermont should be met with an
at home and abroad that should result in
an observance of the event worthy of
Vermonters and credtable to the state.
We should at least equal our sister states
in the success attending the celebration
of our first Old Home Week. Consider
able interest in this celebration has
already been arouse ed among Vermonters
residing in other states. This interest
is particularly marked among members
of the Vermont Association in Boston,
Providence, New ork, Brooklyn, Wash
ington, Buffalo, Chicago. Minneapolis,
st. Paul, San Francisco and other cities.
The officers of the Vermont Association
in Boston are favorably considering a
proposition looking to visit to Vermont
in body during the week of August l6.
The members of the association and their
families number about 400 people. They
contemplate travelling by a special train
through Vermont and by boat through
Lake Champlain the early part of the
week, and at the end of the trip the mem
bers will go to the towns where they
were born to attend the local celebrations.
Already several distinguished sons of
Vermont have accepted invitations to be
the guests of towns of which they are
natives. Bradford will have the dis
tinguished honor of entertaining Captain
Charl'. y. Clark, L. S n, of the Oregon
during Old Home Week. The executive
committee of Vermont Old Home Week
Association earnestly suggests that steps
be taken at once for the organization of
local Old Home Week Associations. 1t
is also very desirable that an early can
vass be made in every town where cele-
bratiOn is to be held for the names and
addresses of former residents. The in
vitations 70 visit Vermont and attend
local celebrations should be made out as
early as May -, as most summer yaca-
tions are planned aS early as June |. The
lists of names obtained in these local can
vases should be in the hands of the state
secretary by the middle of May. At
least 10000 copies Of the governor pro.
clamaton. inviting Nermonters resident
in other states to return to the land of
their nativity Old Home Week, should
ne sent out. There should be. at least
30, 900 additional invitations sent by local
associations to former residents.