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dressed tin* 1 *ri* 1«* and groom of tifty years ago in very appropriate term*, concluding by presenting Mrs. Spires with i»n elegant gown an.I Mr. Spires with a line suit of elothes from their childreu, an.l also to Mr. Spires a beautiful gold hea.leil cane from his son Johu. This conclude.I, Mr. Il.irt asked those of the children, six in number, whom he had married, to form a circle, and then he shook hands with each with a good word of cheer or consolation. This scene won very impressive, and there were but few dry eyes in the house, es pecially while ho tulked to Mrs. Cline, whose hushaud died some two years ago. This concluded all the formal ceremony there* was, and the guests were then invited to the dining room, where a most eluboratelater performing a similar service for Mrs. Abu Seymour and husband. As will be noted by the dates above, this was also the anniversary of the wedding of John M. Spires and wife, and tin1 fact that of the ten living children,J four of them were horn in the month of February shows that it is a favorite month with this family.After dinner was concluded Mr.J (Jutes had the father, mother and ten I children grouped in the sitting room j Mid took a picture of them, and afterwards grouped the entire company on the south side of the house and photo j ' graphed them also.The whole affair was one of the most : j pleasant and agreeable imaginable, i and the (Vh rikr joius with their hosts i «»f friends in wishing Mr. and Mrs. Spires many happy returns of theirand elegant dinner was served to about 1 wedding anniversary.forty persons, the family reserving themselves to the last. When they ; were finally seated around the table j they presented a sight never before [ witnessed by any present, and seldom possible. It was that of father, mother and ten children all gathered around tin* family table on the ilfthieth aniii- ; versary of the marriage of the parents.'At the head of the table sat the I4,cnrult;' an.l Martha Krrflvrd.Thursday evening in the parlor of the State Street Presbyterian church a large number of guests were entertained by Gen.tieorge Washington and ) Martha Washington. Of course they were not the original George and Mar- j tha, although “The Live Druggist claims that Martha would be alive today had she taken some of thr ruedi-father. W. T. Spires, on his left the, cincs which he advertisesgood mother, and then arranged around the table to her left the ten children according to their several ages, the youngest being at the right of the father. The diagram below, according to the numbers, shows the order of thost* sitting at the table and their re spective ages:of ty to sell WalterI. HutiiI W.Mrs. W. John M f» Sara IP. Spires l\ Spires age 1*.»; I (Mrs. AbeSr.Sr.age 71 years; age f.d years; Win. T, Jr.. uglt; Seymour». ago • » Martha (Mi's. J. P. Story), age 7 Mary (Mrs. Isaiah Whit lock i, ug« k Margaret (Mrs. M. J. (Mine, widow age .Ms; ;i Julia (Mrs. S. A. I). Whit lock(. age .’hi; 10 Knialiue (Mrs. J. (putting all jokes aside Waltef Ayers and Miss Kittie St raw n did the honors, of host and hostess. They were* hand | homely costumed for the occasion as were many of the ladies and gentlemen who assisted them. The costumes were I all of the old continental style and many of thorn were elaborate. The) parlor was very handsomely decorated 1 with tiags and hunting and presented a very patriotic appearance. An eie-i gant supper was served by the ladies of tIn* church, the hours being from to H o'clock. The menu consisted of cold hum, salads, escalloped oysters, pickles rolls, cotfee, ice cream and17;45;4M;41;■ako.Smith., age M2; II (Marinda Mrs. Z. D. Morrow j, age *JU; 12 Matilda (Mrs. Charles Wood), age 21*. The two last named are twinsKach of the eight daughters and two daughters in law prepared a large and elegant cuke for this occasion. The one prepared by Mrs. W. T. Spires and daughter, of this city, coutaiiuvl the figures and words “Mi 181*1. Hope you may live HO years more, in confec-tionary. This was a fruit cake, and an exceedingly line one, too.Wm. T. Spires wu» born in Lincoln county, K\. Dec. 2ii, 1S22, and cameAlton Kii(liirrr* A roil ■•lt;lt;!.Supts. Gray aud Johann were visited Monday afternoon in Bloomington by a grievance committee from Alton en gineei's protest mg against t he discharge of Kngiueer Grady, of Joliet, lit* has been engineer on the local between Joliet and Brighton Park for a long time, and u few days ago committed a breach ot the company's rules, lb* carried a lady on his engine a distance of two miles from the coal chute at Belt crossing to Brighton Park. It is claimed that the woman was in search of a doctor and it was a matter of life and death. There was no other means of transportation available and the engineer agreed to carry her. The grievance committee think that the circum stances are sutliciently extenuating to admit of (.rady's re-iustatemeut and
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Jacksonville Weekly Illinois Courier
Jacksonville, Illinois, US
Wed, Feb 28, 1894
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