. Early years in Smyrna and our first Old home week. rning our town and its people much of the past isknown and written. Its history equals not a few and excelsmany in various respects. Its future remains unknown and un-written, but we can only hope that the lives and teachings of thepast generations will ever be a strong incentive to righteous acts,in the hearts and minds of those who are to come after them. May the memory of the moral and religious lives of thefathers and mothers be a guide and a shield to all their posterity. Before the hills in order stood,Or earth received her
. Early years in Smyrna and our first Old home week. rning our town and its people much of the past isknown and written. Its history equals not a few and excelsmany in various respects. Its future remains unknown and un-written, but we can only hope that the lives and teachings of thepast generations will ever be a strong incentive to righteous acts,in the hearts and minds of those who are to come after them. May the memory of the moral and religious lives of thefathers and mothers be a guide and a shield to all their posterity. Before the hills in order stood,Or earth received her everlasting thou art God,To endless years the thousand ages in thy sight,Are like an evening as the watch, that ends the the rising sun. Time, like an ever rolling stream. Bears all its sons away, They fly, forgotten, as a dream, Dies at the opening day. Our God, our help in ages past. Our hope for years to come. Be thou our guard while troubles last, And our eternal home. t6S Our First Old Home Week August 7-14, 1904. Our First Old Home Week. Once more among the stately hillsides look,Where flows the limpid stream, called Pleasant Brook. The observance of an Old Home Week, or a time in whichthe many sons and daughters of old Smyrna who, during theearlier and later days of the past, have gone out from among usmight re-visit their old homes and mingle together once morewith old neighbors and friends, had many times been brought upby our citizens and many plans connected with the same pre-sented, but nothing definite concerning such a gathering was ac-complished until the winter of 1904, when after much talk andmuch discussion a meeting was called at the office of George , Esq., on Saturday evening, February 27, from whichan adjournment was made to the same place on Monday eve-ning following, at which meeting it was unanimously voted toobserve an Old Home Week, the date of the same to be theweek of August 7th-14th, and a committee chosen to
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