Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-23
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Louisville Club Planning Great
 Home Coming Week."
THE EXERCISES TO BE ELABORATE

THE EXERCISES TO BE ELABORATE sweIcome," :" "Foster," Daniel Boones
 and "Greater Kentucky" Days Will
 Be Celebrated Next June-Chances
 For Former Kentuckians to Win
 Handsome Prizes - Several Bands
 Will Render a Famous Song.
 Acting upon a suggestion made to it by a young lady born in Kentucky, but now living in Colorado, the Louisville Commercial club is to have a home coming" for all Kentuckians next June, says a Louisville special dispatch to the New York Globe. The plans as far as matured contemplate a celebration much more extensive than any of the "home. coming" weeks ever held in New England. The dates fixed are June 13, II, 15, 16 and IT.
 The first day will be known as Ire ception and welcome day" Every coun- ty in the state will establish headquar- ters in the new armory at Louisville, where registration of visitors will take place. This will be followed by a civic and military parade. Colonel Henry Watterson has been invited to deliver the chief address of welcome and for mer Governor David R. Francis of Missouri the response. Among many others invited to appear on the pro gramme are former Senators William Lindsay and John c. Carlisle of New York city. Associate Justice John NJ. Harlan of the United States supreme court, former Governor Thomas T. Crittenden of Missouri and former Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson of Hi nois.
 Thursday. June 14. is to be Foster day" in honor of Stephen Collins Eos ter, the author of the immortal song My old Kentucky Home" The events of the day will include brass bands and vocal concerts, it being planned to mass several bands to render My Old Kentucky Home" and have a chorus of several thousand children honor Eos ter's memory. The Commercial club has arranged with Miss Enid Yandell, the Kentucky sculptor. to make a stat ue of Foster. to be unveiled on this day. to be later placed in the new cap itol at Frankfort. The statue will cost about $6,000 and will be paid for out of contributions by the school children of Kentucky.
 Friday, June 1j. Daniel Boone day. will give both host and guest the op- portunity of paying tribute to the Ken lucky pioneer, revivlng the states ear Hest history, the trials and privatlOns of its men and women in the eight eenth century. the fights led by General George Rogers Clark. Kentuckians at the River Raisin. etc It is expected that the entire day will be spent in the parks of Louisville.
 Following the oratory there will be given old fashioned games. in which prizes will be awarded. Other features of the day will include sewing bees, apple parings and corn huskings. the day concluding with the Virginia reel. danced on a platform built inside a stockade to hold a thousand couples. The club Is now arranging for the nee essary shocks of corn and barrels of apples to be used in the huskings and parings.
 Special recognition is to be paid on this day to all the kindred of Boone who attend the festivities. A hand some medal will be given the person present who can prove the closest re- lationship to the great pioneer Ar rangements have been made with Colo nel C. c. Bickel who has presented the city of Louisville with a statue of Daniel Boone, to have this statue un- yelled on Daniel Boone day. The statue is being placed in a picturesque spot in Cherokee park.
 Saturday. June 1ti. has been set aside as Greater Kentucky day, with bar becues. eampHres and the Ikea day when the speakers can tell how Ken tuekians have assisted in making the fields of other states Hore prolific. the bench and bar of other states more learned. their press more profound; how Kentuckians have helped disclose the hidden mineral treasures of otber states and how they have contributed to advancement under all conditions.
 Sunday. June 1T. will be given over to the spirit inspired by the song -Un- tI We Meet Agsin-- All the pulpits of the Louisville churches win be filed hy ministers of the gospel who gre fer mer Kentuckians
 The census of fpOo shows that there are more tan e1O0o0 natives of Ken tncky now living ia otbsr common wszfths of the United States The LouizrfEis Commercial club. whiis It