Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-08-14
SONS Of CONCORD HOLD
GLAD DAY" AT STAFFORD
Northeaster Storm Did Not
Creek Msrvimsnt Of Annual
Gathering.

Special Correspondents Every Evening
eeaford, Aug. l4.--What is called the
Raincoat Reunion Of the Sons Of
Concord ended yesterday. The gather
ing lasted three days, and the north
easter three days. Al al frceco" plans
for festivities in the famous hickory
grove were abandoned, and they were
held in the group Of hoepitablc houses
street elbows Of from Main At this
point are many porches, those of the
old General Je~se Green mansion, now
the home Of Frank jefferson, being Of
sich unusual length "A to accommodate
the long stables that were necessary. For
in spite of the bad weather, the crowd,
was the biggest Concord has known for
many year. People came from all
over Delaware and the Eastern Shore
a we'll as from New York, Pcnnsyl-
vania and the South. Letters read from
former Concord men living as far west
a. Missouri evinced the great interest
felt in this second annual home coming.
DR.. Joshua A. Ellcgood. Of Whining
ton. presided at the meetings and was
the host-in-chicf Harvey J. Morgan
of Philadelphia made the principal adj
dress, in which he gave the history of
Concord from Colonial times, when il
WAS known a. Pinegrovc Furnace, and
wa. n center of the bog iron industry.
Then he traced il through the Revolu-
tionary war and so on down to the
present day. Much Of the matter re-
Iating to Concord in its prime was from
original sources and was deemed of par
ticular Importance historically. Mr.. Nor
gan greatly pleased the audience with
his references to the notable families
Of the distant and immediate past. He
read long list OF long-lived men identi-
fed with the place and named many
natives, such as the late Judge. Houston,
who had achieved considerable distinc-
ton in various honorable fields.
DIR. James II. Morgan, president of
Dickinson College, followed with an adj
drcss full Of pith and point, in laudation
OF those homely virtues so successfully
practiced by the elders of the preceding
generation. The well-remembered moth
ers and fathers of Concord live in their
sons and daughters.
William II. Radcliffe, Of Greenwood,
still further stressed the points of the
accomplished DIR. Morgan and by his
witty stories reminiscent of Concord
brought down the house. His boyhood
chum, George Morgan, Of The Phila-
delphia Record" was the last of the
speakers.
Horace b. Phillips, of Suffolk, Va,
then took the chair as the new president
with Horace LOOMS Jones, of New York,
o. treasurer, and Harvey II. Morgan. of
Philadelphia, as secretary. IL was de-
c,dcd TO hold the next meeting OF the
cons AZ Concord on the third Saturday
in August, 1923.
Sociabili,y WAS the keynote through
out. Many noted guests attended. A
feature of the affair on two evenings
WAS musical porch parties under the
leadership Of Mrs. Seth G.. Ellegood, OF
ossln,ng. y. "; Mrs. Viola Cannon
Donaldson, of New York City; Mrs.
Nc,tie, Cannon jefferson. of Concord,
and Frank Cannon, of Concord. Three
generations OF the Cannon family were
represented in these impromptus. The
"hlts" each evening were made by Hon
James Cannon, who though 20. danced
jies 10 Pop, Goes the Weasel" anc
Told Dan Tucker" On the floor with
him WAS Hon. William Morris, also 20
The highest point OF hilarity was reached
when the two nimble-footed Concord
ancients danced the old Bill Hurley hoe
down-an antc-bellum screamer local.,
famous for 20 years.
The ncwly-cicc,ed officers Of the asso
citation arc: Horace b. Phillips, o
Suffolk, Va, president; Harvey J
Morgan, Of Philadelphia, secretary
DR.. Horace LOOMS Jones, of New
York, treasurer.