Evening journal., 1908-10-01
HOMECOMING"
AT GEORGETOWN
Josiah MarVeI'S Tribute to
Old Sussex at the Formal
Opening Exercises
CARNIVAL REST OF WEEK

Special 10 THE EVENING JOURNAL
GEORGETOWN, oct. 1.-"Home-
coming Week" began here today under
auspicious circumstances, and from
now until midnight Saturday there will
] be one round Of pleasure and gaiety.
/ Hundreds of visitors fiocked to the old
town, and nearly every family is en-
tertaining relatives or friends. The
, hotels also are well filled, and George
town is the proudest in her history.
Incident to the opening of the home
coming festivities this morning there
was a parade of secret and civic socie-
ties, in which Company B Of Milford
and Company G, of Dover. of the Or
ganized Militia of Delaware also took
part.
The formal opening exercises took
place about noon. and the opening ad-
dress was delivered by Josiah Marvel,
of Wilmington, a former resident of
Georgetown. McDaniers Municipal
Band of forty pieces from Atlantic City
gave a pleasing concert This after
noon the carnival amusements in the
public square will be opened and there
will be a band concert Tonight there
will be a general illumination of the
town, including business houses, hotels
and dwellings, and a big masque car
nival.
Mr.. Marvel in his address dwelt upon
the virtues of Sussex county and her
people. At the outset he expressed
his pleasure at being present and the
honor he felt at being asked to deliver
the opening address. He said that
measured by his ancestors he had been
a Sussex countian since the Mason
and Dixon Line had made his birth
I place a portion of Sussex territory.
He also recalled that he had been born
and reared a few miles from George
town. He congratulated the residents
of Georgetown upon the conception OF
the homecoming celebration.
Much Good to Come.
Aside from the great good that would
tonne with an influx of visitors Mr.. Mar
vel saw other results arising from the
homecoming, among them being an
increased attachment to the native soil
a keener. devotion to the home of child
hood and a livelier interest in the kim
ship of blood.
These are the sentiments that form
6><fe foundation ont OF which grows a
( yeai Qtf1g- felt by every exile" said Mr..
Marvel. THAT yearning which grows
as we grow. that yearning which in
creases with our age; that yearning
which we all finally recognize and come
10 khow as the call of the old hearth
stone.% Your efforts are helpful, indeed,
If they help to rekindle those senti-
ments which every Sussex countian by
nature holds within his breast. Your
labors in this direction should meet
with success. as Sussex countians are
proverbially attached to their native
soil 1t is well for us that we have
this sentiment and it is well for you
TO encourage it.
while home life IS strong in your
midst it cannot be too earnestly dwelt
upon or too vigorously encouraged. In
looking upon the home life Of Sussex
county there is much that makes us
feel a natural pride. know Of no peo-
pie anywhere that furnishes a better
example of strong home ties and of
sacred family life than that found
among our own people 81 this good
county.
Strong Ties of Blood.
1T is probable that in no commun-
ity in this country does kinship of
blood exist to the same extent as in
Sussex county, and the reason is plain
Y 60 see. II is an old community. set
\ tied by one nationality that naturally
" intermarried and an almost absolute
n freedom from immigration. The re-
1 suit is that practically the entire in
crease Of population has grown from
the original stock and we have only
A 20 trace our lineage back few gem
4 , erations 10 find an ancestor who will
also befound i'm the family tree Of a
Y hundred other families.
I'VE are proud to say that circum-
stances have so placed us that in Sus-
sex county there now exists the purest
strain of Anglo Saxon stock of any
county in the world. not excepting the
Anglo Saxon mother country from
Y which our stock sprung. We are also
proud to say that the old Anglo Saxon
traits of manhood and womanhood are
also maintained in our midst
Men Are Her Monuments.
Sussex has no monuments of stone
4 or statues of brass to commemorat,
4 81 in the eyes of the world. But W,
have no apology TO make. or regret.
4 10 offer. when VIC can look the who'll,
:, world in the face and say that Sussex's
ll>honuments are not of stone or brass
hut Sussex monuments are men, AND
these 'monum ents we have sent out anc
4 set up throughout the civilized world
Mmonum ents Of men at home and abroad
Gshowing to all the world the best ex
Examples of the lasting virlity. the rug.
"a I'd honesty and the hardy manhood o
II je Anglo Saxon blood; monuments o
n en that stand for upright living mon
i nents Of men who stand for the homo
nd glory of the soil from which the!
pring.'