Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-22
SONS or CONCORD
HAVE FINE REUNION
Meet at Famous Old Town OF
Sussex and Form an Or
9anlxation.

Concord. Aux. 3:.--A home weok az
fair OF unusual proportions and with
unique features II Roinx OH here. Com
cord. which was Pine Grove Furnace
nsfor~ the Revolutionary War. taking
1ta present name In honor OF the pa
triota OF Concord. Mass, lost It's
prestige as tho Nanucoke river ship
ping town OF central Sussex when the
railroads to the east and west Of 1t
got away with the freight formerly
carried by water. Its young men OF
80. 20. so and 90 years ago found il
necessary to cut loose from the home
town In order to get into some paying
business. Nearby places took a num-
Der OF them. but as a rule. they went
to Philadelphia and points beyond. A
few are in the Texas. Missouri,
Colorado and California One of them
has made his million In Southern lum-
ber. These are the Concord boys
some gray as the old gray GOOSE
who had a "get-together.' Saturday
and yesterday.
The people of Concord gave the boys
q grand reception. Every latchstrlng
was out. Mrs. Frank Jefferson Mrs.
Thomas T. Rodney, Mrs. Joseph Vim
cent. Mrs. Martha Crawley and others
arranged an al fresco feast in the
church grove where stand the finest
ole hickories in Sussex. 1t was
fr.ed-chicken and beaten biscuit
spread OF the first order: but there
was pie famine because of the lick
the frost got in on the fruit buds last
spring. watermelons, however. fenced
the long table like fortification. This
fertilization was beaten down--or
rather eaten down-in the onslaught
The dean of Concord boys. Rev.
Philip Henry Rawlins. gave Satur-
days big talk He went to school in
the same hickory grove where he
stood. so years ago. Like the ia
nous Blind Preacher" in William
wirt's book of that name. Mr.. Raw
Inns. also blind, and now 81 years old,
moves his audience whenever he
speaks. His address on the occasion
alt mainly with the families and
characters identified with Concord in
the days of his youth. Next to Mr..
Eawiins in point Of Concord boy
seniority is Henry White Baker, now
s4, the best-known banker in this part
Of the Delaware peninsula. Next in
fame is James ("Jimmy'O Cannon.
who was present, and a centre of in
terest, because of his fund of genial
and witty reniniscence. AS for racy
reminiscence, il was by no means
n.onopolized by Bill Morris. The
Morgan tribe. numerous at Concord
III the oia days. was represented
among the speakers by Isaac, of
rridgeville, son of Rev. Warren, and
by James H. of Carlisle. Pa, son of
Samuel DR. James H. Morgan. who is
president of Dickinson College. fol-
lowed Mr.. Rawlins in a fine address,
suggesting that the home-week affair
be made annual and permanent.
Accordingly an association. TO be
known as Sons of Concord" was
formed and the following officers were
elected: Dr. Joshua A. Eliegood of
Wilmington, president: Harvey j.
Morgan of Philadelphia. secretary:
and Dr. Horace Loomis Jones, of New
York, treasurer.
Present were three of the sons Of
Dr. Robert G. Ellegood. Joshua and
Robert of Delmar. and Seth c., of Os-
sining, ". Y; four of the sons OF
James w. Morgan. including Harvey
j. and Albert w. or Philadelphia,
and Hiram w, of Altoona; two sons
OF Edward Ford, former Concord mer-
chant, Edward b., of Philadelphia and
John of Millersville. Pa; two of the
Henry boys, Samuel of Lancaster, Pa,
ard James of Bunker Hill; James A.
Morgan of Seaford; Mrs. James A.
Morgan. Mrs. Willie Mclallen of
Bridgeviile and a host of others.
Some of the sons from distant
parts will remain to try the bass in the
most beautiful pond in the Delaware
peninsula, if not, indeed to taste the
first fox grapes in September.