Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1901 — A Holiday that Will Last a Week. [ARTICLE]

A Holiday that Will Last a Week.

There is a movement afoot In New England to establish n new holiday—- “ Old Home Week." Our great country has grown wondrously since the Civil War, and In the rush to people the wilderness families have been broken up and scattered. Sous, daughters, sisters and b rot bars have left their native towns and gone thousands of mllea away to begin life for themselves. Hardly a family In the older States but has given loved ones to the ravenous West, and New England has given more than all. So now It Is thought that one week la each year should be set apart for family reunions- a week in autumn, perhaps when harvest Is done aud the children of New England can couie together under the old roofs, meet their old playmates and live their old lives. All through the Western States people are becoming Interested In the new holiday, aud last year one of the New England governors Issued a proclamation shtting aside an “Old Home Week.” The home-coming waa general enough to warrant the belief that the holiday can be made a permanent one.