The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-20
THE ROBESONIANS WEEK.

This is to be a great week for Robe
son county, for at Red Springs there
is to be an all-the-week celebration
which has been designated as Home
Coming Week for Robesonians.
The purpose is to have the Robe
sonians who have dispersed" and
who are living in other counties or
States, to come back this week and
see what has been done in Robson
county, as we'll as to have these give
account of the wanderings and of their
successes in life, for Robesonians are
not expected to fail.
The week will be a gala one and
Red Springs will keep open house.
There will be amusement and pleasure
for all, and the feast of oratOry
promises to be fit for epicures, as the
States most prominent and eloquent
sons will be present, and returning
Robesonians will also speak. The list
Of these shows that the man who
makes the best speech will have to
make it eloquent indeed.
But the great event Of the week
will be from start to finish, and this
will be in the meeting with old friends
and the making of new ones. There
will be stories of the past told again
and again, as boyhood comrades meet
after years of parting. The days in
the progressive town of Red Springs
this week will pass happily by and all
too soon the Homecoming Week
will end and Red Springs will take oft
it's decorations.
AS outlined by Hon. D. P. Nc
Eachern, the president of the Home
Coming Week" exercises, the pro-
gram for the week takes on added in
terest, though in it he says nothing OF
the dramatic entertainments to be
given, the music of the brass band,
the games of baseball and all the
other good things which the hos
pitable people of Red Springs have
i'm store. Here is what he has to say:
1.-The program opens with an ad-
dress of welcome from the handsome
and talented young bachelor from the
Old Fork, Col E. F. McRae, and re-
piled to by one of Robesons DIS
persed abroad Professor Carlyle, OF
Wake Forest. Then you must hear
Colonel Mclean, who needs no intro
ductiOn from this pen. Hamilton
Mcmillan, and Prof. Alex. Graham,
of Charlotte will tell of things pres
ent and to come seem worse, things
past best and anecdotes and reminlS-
censes galore. All this will take place
Tuesday, as the program will indicate.
"wednesday will be Women's Day,
when they will decorate all veterans
who haven't been yet SO honored with
crosses of honor, and Will then line
them up in the college dining room
and feed the old fellows to their
hearts content. But before all of this
Dr. Hull will open services with prayer
and Major London will deliver one
of those addresses for which he is so
Justly celebrated. At night a Con-
necticut Yankee but who for twenty
five years has had his heels well
tarred, will make one of his charac-
teristic talks. and who can that yam
kee Tar Heel be but the eloquent r.
w. LivermOre.
'"ThurSday lack Fillmore comes all
the way from Texas to visit his old
mother and to tell you how Robson
bow can evolute Governor Glenn will
also have something to say about the
Robson County Man, some of whom
we are all which. Then Hon. John l..
McLaurin. of South Carolina. will tell
us all we don't know about cotton,
farming and South Carolina politics,
after which Hon. Josephus Daniels,
of Raleigh, will talk straight COM
mon sense to us.
Friday will close these series or
intellectual entertainments by speeches
from such well-known orators as Dr.
McIver of Greensboro; Professor NC
Callum of Texas, and Professor Gra-
ham, of Charlotte. The closing Oh
this feast will be with good strong
wine from our homemade boy, w. ID.
Mckay, of Texas. Be it understood
that Dr. Vardell vii be master OF cere-
monies"