Former FitchbnrgersObserve Golden JubileeMr. and Mrs. Fred Hill Merrill,formerly . of Fitchburg, celebratedtheir 50th anniversary on Thanksgiving/day at their home oft Peaks Island, Me. Far 42. years Mr. Merrill was a foreman for the Boston Ik' / Maine railroad and they resided in I [Fitchburg 30 years- They have been j! summer residents. of Peaks Island for ; J 40. years and for the past three years i haw lived permanently cm the island . Mr. Merrill wu bon m Wells, hie., the son of the late Rev. William.Penn Merrill, former well known. Baptist minister of Portland- -and Peaks . Is-healthI 1:and is confined to his bed, but was able to celebrate the anniversarywith his immediate family.If* is now in his 76th jew; Bins.' Merrill is 65 year* old' x■ Assisting Mr. ind Mrs.- Merrill in]t i the celebration wer*-|h«r- children. [ •lid gomdchildrenC. Inhere '.ar*, six . [ surviving children, Mrs. Paul Derby and Mrs. Sophia Gill is of Leominster, Benjamin Franklin Merrill of Lunenburg, Mrs. Herbert Todd of Hew.:; Boston, N. H, %s. William N. Rhudeof Honolulu and. William M. Merrill el Waltham.:'• . .'i ^ ’■ -