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THIRTIETH ANNIVKJISARV.Sir. anil Mrs. Jacolt A. Mo (Timm Olebnito Thair Cotton Woiltling.Burgess J. A. Hoffman and wife celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of their wedding on Friday afternoon at their home on West Washington avenue. They were married at Alexandria, Huntington county, 011 tho 9th of February, 1870, and on tho anniversary occoasion yesterday a number of persons were present who witnessed the ceremony thirty years ago. Miss Clarissa Wilson was the maiden name of Mrs. Hoffman. It was a cold, blustery, winter day when she became the wife of Mr. Hoffman, and tho trip to Huntingdon overland, to take a railroad train for tho honeymoon tour,is well remembered by Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman as a chilly beginning to their voyage in life together, so far as environment was concerned, but the blasts of winter seemed only to heighten the warmth of affection which has reigned supreme in their household as the winters have since come and gone for nearly a third of a century.Besides Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman aucl their family there wore present yester-dny, Rev. and Mrs. Horace L. Jacobs, of Altoona, Rev. Dr. W. M. Frysinger, present pastor of the First M. 15. church ; Mrs, AnnieRaugh, of Altoona; Austin Altman and wifo, P. II. Piper and wife, Misses 3511a and Carrie Piper and Miss Sarah Long, of Alexandria; James Wilson (brother of Mrs. Iinffman) and wife, of Petersburg; Daviil Long and wife | and H. A. Hoffman ’(brother of Mr. Hoffman) and wife, of Tyrone, together . with Mrs. Charles L. Hoffman (daugh-ter-iu-law of Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman) and two children, Richard Jacobs and Clair Festler, of Pnnxsutawney. During the afternoon the two children were baptized by the ministers present. A sumptuous dinner was served at 4 o’clock, and the anniversary occasion was most enjoyably spent by all present. The congratulations were warm nod earnest, and the substantial remembrances were appropriate and tasteful. A letter expressing regret for unavoidable absence was received from J. L. Isenberg, a fricud who was at. tho wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman. Ho is now the editor of The Wave, published at Enid,Oklahoma.
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Tyrone Daily Herald
Tyrone, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Feb 15, 1900
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