Milford chronicle., 1908-09-25
HOME COMING WEEK
At GEORGETOWN

Everything is now ready for the big
Carnival and Home Coming, which is to
oe held in Georgetown next Thursday.
Friday and Saturday, and the affair pro-
naises to be the greatest ever given in
sussex county. The town is already.be-
ing decorated for the occasion, and arches
of red, white and blue with bold letters
OF Welcome will be flying on the main
streets by the first of next week. The
public square is wired for the hundreds
OF electric lights and Japanese lanterns
that are to be used while nearly every
business house and every home is being
decorated for the affair. To tell all the
sights that will take place would take an
entire paper, and we simply can say that
Il will beat circus and county fair put
together. Farmers will exhibit their pro-
duce, mothers will show their pretty Z
babies, bands will play, school children
will sing, and above all will be heard the
shouts of the many barkers telling the n
people the advantages of the many side 5
shows and booths that will line the pub
lie square, In one part of the town tC
Wild West Show will he in full opera it
tiOn with brave cowboys on bucking
bronchos and wild Indians living in their r.
tepees. Special excursion rates and special In
trains are run on every railroad, and peo-
pie from every part of the county and
state will be here with hundreds of for. "a "a
mer residents come back to their native
State and county for few days. Trains
will be run out of Georgetown every night y
so that Milford, Harrington, Wilmington, III
Seaford, Laurel and Delmar people can w
return home the same evening 1t will
be the greatest bunch of shows ever given ha
in the county, and every one should at inl
tend. De
Arrangements were made this week for
Bills Wild West Show to be a.
one of the attractions of the Carnival and 81
Home Coming, which is to be held in ~, A.
Georgetown next Thursday, Friday and
Saturday. The cowboys and Indians
viii give free exhibitions of fancy riding NH
md roping every day in the public al,
quare, while tented exhibitions will also loi
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The Baby Show has already 81 Sussex n
'ounty babies entered, and the affair OF
romises to be a success. The baby show tent
ill be one of the features of the Carnival wh'
nd Home Comingin Georgetown. There has
re four prizes, baby coach from Sammons
nd Lynch; baby's toilet set from Mar
lall and Chipmap; baby's coat from U
ilyard's Department Store, and silver vii
1 from Vincent the Jeweler. baf
Among the many free attractions of bav,
e Carnival and Home Coming, which is the
be held in Georgetown the first three dav.
iys in October, will be William Lesley. NOR
e rope walker, with his dog and mon Re
y circus. Performances will be given dred
e every day. Gree
26 floats are already promised for the WIlr
: parade in Georgetown next Friday Wilr
ring the Carnival and Home Coming chin,
III many more to hear from. win,
Every one would take in the Carnival Pnrn
Home Coming at Georgetown, Oct. both
: ana .. Ihere Will be something do CreeE
all the time. Concerts by the Allan. dian
Olty municipal Band will be feature. in, b
90 school children will compose the tbon,
nd chorus which will render songs at p +
Carnival and Home Coming to be Jobn
1 in Georgetown. Will,
lying horses, side-shows, razzle-daz- bnnd,
, Wild West exhibitions, vaudeville, tom h,
ing pictures and big parades will be ford i
ires of the CARNIVAL and Home Com Mnrd,
next week. I,,,.s..
R.,A, a, u..,.. Frank
"ssV"' drad