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jhaBy ADRIAN GWIN Ve“-trou SHOULD have been at that infare dinner! The whole lt;ta, X countryside seemed to be there, and such a spread you.”a never saw before! Food all over the place, and people, too. _“Oh. it was a fine dinner! | , . .. , jlt;-)It certainly was. The tables the ftgure that SO years of ^groaned with all the old-timey 5 } ShJ Jer wrcountry M Bated ham. and . Myrd» ‘*'«ted. h™. »P.sa«*•=» ■«all sorts fresh from the garden; ; f f^, nf anv kind ’ btof every description, tens re? ®. fFJ ,p.es.os every Zona Midkiff looked dryly at cc■ of pies; cakes in all shapes nncl Willie. “He never would quarrel. te,sizis‘ - ..j she said, lie grinned and answer-;. For this was a double Infare pd gense jn qUarxeijng. Plcn- clt;: Those of us who don’t remero- els® ^ . .... T h d .iber what an infare dinner was out! Asa Fathey spoke. It I had to reg-K.a“*earsaeo and IciwT^p$m™«7?r e®V And‘.Willie Midkiff joined him. stItainment given by a newly mar-; sometimes T Teel like if I. CO Jld g?ried couple or by the husband upon I'd like to hve it over again. It s S1 ‘receiving the wife to his house.”.been good.nmwF rnrnn- WFnni\f, Asa worked 5n the minfs ^ n'DOUBLE golde HLDUUStj 5 Coal river tor 12 years before he: It was May 11, 1504. when the quit to go to work for the CO.ti ;big double wedding took place out railroad as a maintenance man. i there at GriffithsvLlle in Lincoln He retired in 194?, with about I county. The in fare was the follow-] 30 years sen7 ice.•ingday. , , The Midkiffs have always been■ Today at the home of Mr. and farmers, have lived in the Cobbs* »Mrs. Asa Pauley of Pennsylvania creek section all their lives.*■ avenue in St. Albans, the two coir As we sat on the front porch of ! pies are celebrating their double the Midkiff home, looking out to ; Golden Wedding anniversary. ithe big garden down in the bottom i It isn’t often that couples who and the new highway running only [have double weddings are able to a tew feet from the front anor,. i get together again to celebrate we toll to talking about the : their 50th anniversaries. jcountryside when the iwo couplesI The two couples who were rnar-'were 'oun5' m \ried then at the residence of “GOD’S COUNTRY THEN ; ‘Preacher Albert G. Grass are Asa' “This was God’s country then. jand Myrtle Alley Pauley, now of,the two mPn agreed. The old ^St. Albans, and Willie E. and Zona roaj ran 0VET the hill there, and Pauley Midkiff, now of Lincoln:tjie Wbole place was practically [county near the old Cobh’s creek1 virgin timberland. i homos of all four of them. ; When we were boys. someAsa was 22, Myrtle was 18; Wit- New York interests in ihe lumber lie was 19 and Zona was 24 when business brught in a gang of Can-; ;they said their vows before old adian hewers to take out oak tim-‘]Preacher Grass. All lour had been bers.knowing each' other for several “Those fellows hewed with the’vears old broadaxp, as clean andiM* » a, the ObV.‘Creek Baptist'church/’ they agreed feTth?ck audFriday. We were all sitting on the inncr *nlt;i u cfv«v found'porch of the Midkiff home out on k* h , '?4. * t*uemf 14-aho.,, fiva from Grit- » ^ s» ^ Z °LT ^ fithsville. That was about the WOOfi-only plane we had to go then, the, .,Tjmber vvas thp thing out ■church! Zona spoke up. hf?re thpn_ j reca]l when j w„ sMyrt and I had both joined ^oy watching those Canadian the church a year or two before, at'hewers with their broad-axes. (a big revival they were having..'That thing wilt cut you if you iThn boys came tn church fairly Upf and cut whpn you-regular, and when they started |ay it down, boy/ they'd say. /'going slnady with us. they’d And they were sharp, for a fact. call for us on Sunday morning lo But times change, and places ‘take us lo church. change, and the years slip by asRODE HORSES TO WED '‘civilization encroaches on theBoth Mrs. Pauley and Mrs. Mid- wilds of the country that was :kiff have beem members of the.sparsely spilled in 1904.Baptist church for 52 years. Mrs. So today, from 2 to ft In Midkiff, Zona, has been a mrm- the •afternoon, the Asa Pauleys ber of Cobb’s creek church all and the \V. E, Midkiffs ar* hold-.that time. jng open house at the Pauley home.We all rode horses to the on Coal river there in St. Albans, preacher’s house, and aftpr the Open house for friends and rela-' wedding, wp got oti our horses lives.and galloped back home. Mrs. Maybe it won't he the same Pauley said. “Of course the girls grral. exciting sort of an affair | .rode side-saddle. Why it would that the big infare dinner was 50. have been Ihe drpths of disgrace years ago. Bui the 4 principals! for a young lady to ride any way are 1he same, Anri everybody will but side-saddle then! be wishing them the same sort of.One of the members of Ihe wed-:good luck on tlieif spcond half*: ‘dtng party was a sister of'century of married life lhat they,!Mts. Pauley, May Alley, now Mrs.:were wished at their first ;May Stevens of Qoquet, Minne- wedding on May_11» 1904.'SOta. And one of the celebrants of: -twt 1 'ithe Golden Wedding anniversary Airnian, Waitress ” €tl .today is Mrs. May Alley Stevens.;She came all the way back from III Big r lying oOXCHT Minnesota to renew old flcquain-; GOLDSBORO. X. C. CD—Betty itances at the big event. She *has Reams, a Goldsboro cafe waitress-■resided in Minnesota since 1915Jan{j Airman '2C James Smith of 1 Gelling hack to that infare din- Knoxville. Tenn.f who met here a ner, there’s another person who.nianih ago. were married in a fly-!was on hand that day 50 years box car al Seymour Johnson ] ago. She's there in spirit today. AlJ RaBe }]VVV Friday,1 She’s Mrs. Alice Dunlap, who Mayor Scott Berkeley was ;was a grown young woman with ftmong ihose attending the cere-j children then. She baked one of mony jnside the big plane, ithe cakes for the infare dinner, as Airman Smith, who participated;a special fa'^or to tlv' Midkiffs. To- in rocent maneuvers in the Ft. rday. while she might not be tbera^ggg areai will take his briae I for the celnbration, she has baked ] alcms when he returns next week ‘another cake and sent it, 50 years!t0 Lawson AFB at Columbus, Ga. later.The big infare 'was held at the TVfnlliPr’s DaV Ev€HtSp#i*S®!r.°Tt u-ns nelit over hf-re on Cobb’s 2:30 p. m. today In the Liberty 'creek they said- And such a Baptist church at 3343 Lews St. 'wonderful crowd of people! -Prizes wH be awarded to the old-80 YEARS, NO FTSSES /wt and youngest mother piesentD«i i ilm *■
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Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Sun, May 09, 1954
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