Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-04
Defer CELEBRATION
OF JUBILEE WEEK
of State Fair Is More
Appropriate.
HOT WEATHER REASON GIVEN
Specific Date Will Be Selected at
Meeting to Be Held
Soon.

DEFINITE decision was made on Tues
day by the general home coming com
tmittee 10 defer Jubilee Week which
had been planned for the FIRST week in
July. until some time in the carly fall.
probably during State Fair week. in
October.
Hot weather in midsummer was the
reason assigned by the committee for
postponing this event which is in
tended as the elimination Of the vel
come extended the boys of Virginia
upon their return from war service
II. W. Ellerson. chairman Of the gen
cral committee, announced after the
meeting Tuesday that Il would convene
again some time during the week TO
select specific date for the beginning
OF the flnal celebration
Jubilee Week VIII bring 10 Rich
mond all men in Virginia who saw SER
vice during the war in any branch OF
.he military, or naval establishments.
the city Viii be wide open to welcome
them. There will be picncs parades.
pagearts and all sorts OF GATHERINGS
Cor the best time possible
VIII Welcome Soldiers.
Richmond is prepared 10 give on
Thursday great demonstration Of vel
and Seventeenth Infantry. Companies
]. and NJ: OF The Three Hundred and
Eighteenth. the Three Hundred and
Nineteenth Ambulance Train and other
smaller units of the EiEhtieth Divi-
sion. who will come here from New
port News for short parade and ccle-
bration.
The presentation OF sword 10
Major General .Adelbert Cronkhite on
behalf OF the state. the presentation 10
the State OF the colors Of the Three
Hundred and seventeenth Infantry and
tho pinninK OF Distinguished Service
- c nj I've ~
the regiment Will be interesting fca
lures OF the celebration Thursday
The troops Will arrive here between
10 and IL o'clock, and between II and
, o'clock Will be taken straight TO
the Fair Grounds. where lunch will be
served them. and Will form for parade
from the Bouieyard to Capitol Square
at o'clock. Trains viii take them
from Byrd Street Station TO Camp Lee.
Line of March Changed.
The line of march has been changed
since the last parade. This time the
men will come down Monument Ar-
north on .ldams to Broad Street Eas,
10 Eighth aud thence to tina Capito
Square, where the presentation cere-
monies will 6e performed These
about $50 o'clock.
Invitations to view the parade have
peen ISSUED TO Major-Gencral Omar
comma ndans OF Camp Lee. and his staff
10 Governor Davis. Mayor Ainslie,
Senators Martin and Swanson and
Representative Montague
In General Cronkhite's official party
Will he Maior-Gcneral and Mrs. -Adel-
bert Cronkhite, Mrs. Young. the gen
erals daughter; Miss Mccormick.
BrigadierG General and Mrs. Harley II.
Ferguson, Colonel w. H. Waldron,
chief of staff; Colonel Killer. comma nd :
ing the Three Hundred and Seventeenth
Regiment; LieutenantColonel Jennings
Wise. Colonel and Mrs. Whipple. Major
Armistead Dobie. aid; Major Davidson.
Major Harris. Colonel Hurley. Major
Berkley, aid; Colonel Mcveigh and
Lieutenant Harding, aid.
y long distance message was re-
ceived from Governor Davis last night,
10 the effect that the ffty-nine mem
oers OF the executive committee of the
woman s committee OF the home com :
ing celebration, OF which Mrs. c. L.
W. Kern is chairman. would be cx-
pected TO receive with Mrs. Davis {
the public reception TO soldiers and
civilians at the mansion immediatel!
following the parade. Governor and
Mrs. Davis were ar Leesburg last night.
and expect TO rcturnN 10 Richmond
this afternoon