Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-30
'DANV|LLE BOYS GO
TO WELCOME HOME
800 Philadelphians Prepare for
Reunion in Home City
Next Week
SOLDIERS TO BE HoNoRED

Hundreds of Philadelphians will
swell the throng at the Danville, Pa,
'Welcome- Home" celebration, which
begins tomorrow and will continue until
next Wednesday.
Philadelphia has Danvilie Club and
its 300 members are "Danville boys"
who Jared forth into the world to seek
their fortunes and have won substan-
tial positions in the. business and pro-
fessional life of this city.
, All of the members of the Danville
Club want to return to their old home
town for the big reunion and most of
them expect to be there, some of them.
taking their families along. ....
Welcome Home
The magnet Of the "Welcome- Home"
festival will also attract "Danville
boys"-and girls, too-from many
other places than Philadelphia and it
is expected that the gathering will
bring together great number of friends
who have not seen one another for
years.
Danville is bedecked in holiday attire
today in preparation for the fete.
In the growing crowd of visitors for
the big celebration are the faces of many
Danville boys who want to be early for
the fun.
Decorations are not confined to the
business center of Danville. Flags flut
ter from the homes and some dwellings
are mass of color in honor of this
great reunion of those who love the
city.
The, program for the carnival is so
varied the festival is attracting a wide
range Of interest. There will be three
big parades, one after another, begin
ming with the Labor Day or industrial
parade Monday. This will be an event,
for Danville is a city of industry and
is proud of its workers and proud OF
| its history. 1t was in Danville that the
first steel rail was rolled, before other
rail making cities were even heard of.
Golden Jubilee
The event tomorrow will be the Col
den Jubilee at st. Joseph's Catholic
Church. Bishop McDevitt and man!
other noted prelates and priests viii
attend.
st. Joseph's was dedicated on July %
| 1869. and the devotion OF its prlest
has won for the church place In TIT
heart Of Danville.
Tomorrow morning at 10 30 pontifica
mass will be celebrated by Bishol
McDevitt. Before the mass there WI
be. procession OF societies. CADETS
sanctuary boys and priests from tn
rectory to the church along Ferry an
Cen.er @ s.run'I LII b. do,;rsrsd bv tbn Rev
J;lorv Welsh G. p.
Tn Tho evening there will be solemn
biob yesners. Mensignor Hassett viii
be the celebrant. The evening sermo
win be delivered by the Rev. julie
) Fo;n Roth Bishop McDevitt an
Father Doueberty. rector of 81
J, Iosonb,s, will make short addresses.
IN Monday the industrial parad
viii hiring. thousands of workers to Dan
ILL froT .urrounding points. Effort
are being made to make the parad
interesting and instructive as well @
imnressiye. Trades unions will marc
and there will be floats and other fea
tnros
"Wednesday will be devoted to Dan
yille's war heroes, and veterans OF I'll
Civil War. the Spanish American Wf
and the world war will be present.
: is exnected that Governor Sproul wi
+. sneak Mt the unveiling of the broni
tablet erected in honor of the Danvil
? men who went to the battlefefds
$ France. of whom twenty -four gay
, their lives to the cause of democracy.
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soiuiers n"!