Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1904 — For an Old Home Week. [ARTICLE]

For an Old Home Week.

Some years ago a town downin old Vermont, or perhaps it was New Hampshire, originated the custom of having an “Old Home Week.” All tha sous and daughters of the old town, who had go le elsewhere to live, with all their descendants, were invited to return and speed the week in the old home. All kinds of hospitable arrangements were mads for the entertainment of the visitors, and the plan proved a great success and has become very popular down eAst. The custom has traveled westward nntil it has reached Indiana, and Terre Haute has had such a week, and with great success. The sons and daughters of Jasper county are scattered into nearly every state and territory in the union and into Canada Mexico and the island of the sea. Hence an “Old Home Week” in Rensselaer, ought and no doubt would be a great success, if properly worked up. It oouldnot be properly done this year, for the season is too late,but if started in time it could be done next year, and The Republican suggests that it be done.