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THEDivorce Law Fails To Perturb The Riddles, Married 50 YearsHalo and hearty.That's Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Riddle, 3122 W.Fiftli-et, who are planning to celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary Wednesday.In this day of divorces and legal separations, fiftieth wedding anniversaries are becoming a rarity, butStrike Sidelights(Continued from Page One.)ncar strike to. cause the telephone operators to give the public inefficient service, he said.The girls were gathered up from all pans of the city in irucks and automobiles, and with but few exceptions were at Iheir posts on seneciule time.Roy Clarkson, police desk sergeant and operator of the switchboard at the police station is authority for the statement that Dee Moines wasn’t caught napping by the strike Tuesday morning.I've answered more than 300such an anniversary when all of the children as well as grandchildrenare present at the celebration is still more rare.Mr. and Mrs. Riddle were married in 1870 iu Oneida, III. Both were born in Illinois. They have made £)es Moines their home for the last 33 years, spending all but three years in Highland Park.We were pioneers In this district. In fact Highland Park was little Jess than a' wuody wilderness when we cam© here to live. Mrs. Riddle said Tuesday morning.They are the parents of eight children. all of wham are living, and are granddad and grandma to 15.Th© children nrer Mrs. J. E. Love-joy. Mrs. Allan Walker, J. E. and Harry Riddle of Des Moines; Mrs. George K. Parker and Mrs. Frances Rudd, Norfolk, Va.; Otis 13. Riddle, Portland. Ore., and Mrs. H. C. Avery of Lorain, O.In addition to the children and grandchildren, all of the daughter-in-laws and son-in-laws are in the city for the anniversary, which will be celebrated with a dinner party Wednesday noon at Harris-Emery’s.f
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Des Moines Daily News

Des Moines, Iowa, US

Tue, Aug 24, 1920

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