The Sun February 7 1890 pg 4

Golden Wedding

Large numbers of the friends of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wright met at their home last Saturday to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding day. The tables were spread for dinner some time before the noon hour, and the friends came and went, and there was eating and merrymaking all afternoon. 126 sat down to the hospitable tables of Mr. and Mrs. Wright that day. Among those from abroad were two daughters, a granddaughter, a grandson and a great-granddaughter. The jolliest person in the house that was brimming over with jollity was Mrs. Wright and Mr. Wright's beaming countenance bespoke the pleasure he felt in welcoming the scores to his home and table.

An an appropriate ......Wright, pastor of the Christian church in behalf of a large number of friends delivered a pleasant ......... speech, which was ........... by Mr. J. H. Wright in a few remarks. Mrs. Wright also returned her thanks. below we give the list of presents:

$1.00 - T R McDowell

$1.00 - W J Furrow

Pair towels and cards - Grandma Noble

Rocker and $5 gold piece-Mrs Dr. Shoemaker, C Mead, F H Baker, D Troxel and wife, W .... and wife, G W Hedges and wife, B W Campbell and wife, Wm Gordon and wife, H H Burt, Mrs. M E Campbell. W. A. McLean, Mrs. C. Hoevet, Mrs. Walters, Mrs S C Nye, G H Galer, W W Zook, H B Loudin, R J Wilson, Geo Woods.

Pair mittens for Mr. Wright - Mrs Reuben Campbell

$2.50 gold piece - A friend

Pencil sketch of camp ground during the war - G H Blakeslee

50 cts - Mrs Nannie Troxel

$1.00 - N M Graham.

Gold headed cane and gold thimble - Their daughter, Mrs G H Blakeslee

Two aprons and a handkerchief - Mrs M F Campbell and family.

One thoroughbred Poland China pig, four months old - Cleveland .... and wife.

Three Plymouth Rock fowls - ... Eller and family.

Pin cushion- Mrs C L Woodard

Gold headed cane- J L Epperson, S ? Elder, W J Gardiner, Geo F Dickson, D C Hager, F A Thompson, W B Smith, S. M Wallace, E D Davis, E G Groff, Wm Seelig, H E McDowell, O P Shoemaker, C S Detweiler, H J Roberts, W L Palmer, O C Williams, N M Moulton, Frank Stanton, S Moe & Son, Perry Burlingame, Holmes & Barnett, M P Leitch, N E Perry

$10.00 gold piece - Messrs and Mesdames Geo S Ward, Peter Cruikshank, H E Stein, J E Wheeler, D Leitch, B H Dunn, L F Fryar, J C Ward, J L Campbell, J H Leitch.

Two pairs of gold spectacles - Messrs and Mesdames A J Detweiler, Peter Boyd, J. M. Lyons, F Troxel, E L Newton, M M Thomas, H O Shike, Chas Mead, J. Starkey, W L Mann, C Wileman, J W. Markwell, C J Martin, Jas Kincaid, C Lunn, J W Jones, C C Garvin, N W Johnson, Mrs D C Hager, N M and B F Graham.

The following, written by Mrs R P Mead, was read: 1840-1890 Dedicated to Grandpa and Grandma Wright on their fifieth wedding anniversary:

Standing on the threshold of time, you look back fifty years. How swift the time has fled. That day of all days when fond vows were plighted; when youth was in all its glory and happiness, and prospects for the future were bright. What plans were laid! With what zeal you started hand in hand to take up the stern realities of life. Anon the clouds came hovering over your pathway, only to be dispelled by the sunshine of true love. Trials and troubles came, .... ... ... ... of all, but bravely you took up the burden, and time passed on. The hardships of a new country were yours to endure. Leaving your eastern home, where childhood's days were passed, and with a determination to make a home on these western prairies, from whence the buffalo had fled, and which the Indians had left for new hunting grounds, to give the new settlers a prairie home. A sod-house was reared in its most artistic beauty, and many happy days spent beneath its roof. In a few years a new frame house was erected and the old sold-house torn down. When you look back and realize the hardships you had to endure to make a home in the then far west-living through the grasshopper plague, when soul and body could hardly be kept together and with the disadvantage of settling a new county-words can hardly express your feelings. How grateful your children are that you early instilled in their minds the great principle of forming a character that will honor them in doing right, and educating them to go out into the world and try to accomplish that which is pleasing to God and man. And while you look back over the dim, vista of years you can say:

"Sure, the Lord has been my helper. He has been around about me. He has led me through the shadow and sunshine and placed my feet upon the Rock.

Your children arise and call you blessed; and as you come down to this fiftieth anniversary, let it be with grateful hearts that you have been prospered in many ways, when as an unbroken family you gathered around the home fireside. We as your friends and neighbors are happy to greet you on this fiftieth anniversary. Our prayer is that God may gently lead you along the remaining years of life; and may you, an unbroken family, rest at last in a "Home not made with hands Eternal in the Heavens".