Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-10-06

State perfect similar plan OF or
ganization by the election of vari
GUS officers and governing boards
whose duty it snail be to arrange
for great gathering and home
coming in the respective counties
and cities of the State at Some APP
propriate time during the 1907, dur
| ing Which time the brothers and
sisters, sons and daughters and de-
scendants of those who have gone
! forth from the various counties or
cities shall be invited to return and
visit the homes Of their ancestors
and mingle in happy reunions with
their friends and kindred. That
appropriate exercises be arranged
by each local organization at the
court house town, or at some other
appropriate place within the coun-
tv, at which the history of the
county may lie set forth and the
names Of the great it has pro-
duced be held up before he rising
generation as a spur to ambitious
and useful endeavor; that the re-
sources and advantages of the
county be set forth at length by
addresses which can lie reduced to
pamphlet form for dissemination;
that the people of the various cities
and counties, as we'll as the politi-
cal and social organizations, sup
port the hands of the officers and
governors of the local organization
by endeavoring to arrange to in
crease the general attractiveness of
1.-The counties by making better
roads in the counties, and streets
and parks in the cities and towns.
and that the people generally paint
up their homes, beautify their
lawns. repair their fences, and so
arrange to have each county and
each city increase it attractiveness
and put on a holiday appearance,
so that there may be, throughout
the State generally. general i'm
provement looking forward to
these great homecomings and local
gatherings.
would recommend that appro-
pirate literature be disseminated by
the local organization among the
people Of the several counties, set
ting forth the plan that has been
adopted by the local organization,
so that these circulars may be en-
closed in the letters that are writ
ten by the people to their distant
relatives and friends, so as to create
desire in the hearts of the people
of this hospitable old State to well
come home those who have gore
forth to other fields, and to create
in the breasts Of the children and
grandchildren CT Virginia and all
portions of the country. a desire to
return and revisit the scenes OF
their early life or the homes Of
their ancestors, and to participate
in these county and city reunions,
as well as to attend the James
town Exposition.
1t would be easy to arrange that
the various city or county reunions
or homecomings, as they may be
called, should be so scheduled that
that they might not conflict with
tie date selected for adjoining
counties. thus giving the people OF
one county the opportunity to meet
and fraternize with the people of
neighboring counties. There
should not be in any one week
more than three or four counties
holding their celebrations at the
same time, and these counties
should be more or less remote from
each other, so that between May
any November during each week
there may be a celebration in pro-
gress in one or more of the cOun-
ties and cities of the State under
the auspices Of the various local
organizations.
AS before intimated, / would
suggest that the addresses at the
reunions in the various counties
and cities should be printed in
pamphlet form, SO that they NAV
be afterwards edited and published
conf incd in one or more volumes,
which would be of intstimable val
ne to future generations in setting
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