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FIFTY YEARS OF WEDDED LIFE.Hr. and Mrs. Adams Celebrate Tlieir Golden Wedding.Large Gathering' of Friends at TheirHome in Oswego Center Wednes. day Evening—Bolden Clock Presented by Congregation of First Presbyterian Church.Oswego Center, April 7.—The golden wedding anniversary of the -marriage of Mr. and Mrs. William Adams was celebrated at their pleas' ant home here last evening. There were a large number of guests from Oswego city and different parts of the county, who gathered to shower con-gratuiations on the happy pair.Mr. tmd Mrs. Adams were both residents of Jefferson county when they fell in love and went before a minister at Adams and were joined together “for better for worse unti1 death do*us part.” Mr. Adams brought his bride to a home which he had prepared for her' in this county, and for half a century ithey have lived in this same house and their married life has been fifty years of love-making and honeymoon.There are no two persons in 03-tyegOjTo^n , jieid Jp. JJUBftS^t^im; than Mr. and Mrs. Adams. They are members of the First Presbyter, ian church of Oswego and Mr. Ad sms is one of the eiders.When the guests bad assembled the Rev. Charles H. Jone3, of the Firat Presbyterian church,read Long, fellow’s “The Hanging of the Crane” and after a few well chosen remarks io which he on behalf of the congregation ot the church congratulated Mr. and Mrs. Adams on their annp versary, presented the bridal couple of fifty years ago with an exquisitely wrought gold ciock, a gift of the congregation. This was a signal for others who had gifts to present and there was a shower of five and tea dollar gold pieces.The guests then seated themselves to a bounteous wedding dinner prepared by Caterer Morrow, of Oswego, to which justice wa3 done. Miss Alta Headrick, of Oswego, presided at the piano and played softly throughout the evening.Bach guest received a unique souvenir of the occasion in the shape of a golden bell with tiny pictures of Mr. and Mrs. Adams,and inscribed “1854-1901.”The guests present w6Fe : Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Adams, Geneva; Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Dodge, Mexico; Mr. and Mrs. George Dodge, Pulaski; Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Loeffier, Minetto; Mr. and Mrs. William Cook, Mr. and and Mrs. G. W. Baker, Arthur Babcock, Charles M. Dean, Ward Green wood, Miss Alta Hendrick, Mrs. George Morrow, the Rev. C. H. Jones, Oswego, Mrs. E. Townsend, Cedar Rapids, la.; Mrs. Cornelia Hammond, Mies Mary G. Hammond, Rochester; Charles J. Frank, Cleveland, N. Y.; Mrs. Mary B. Potter, Syracuse; Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Todd, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Grifiin, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Fisk, Mr. and Mrs. M.G. Sbelhamer, Miss Catherine Cary. Mrs. M. P. Brewster, Mrs. George Coe, Oswego Center,
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Oswego Daily Palladium
Oswego, New York, US
Fri, Apr 08, 1904
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