Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1914 — OLD PLATE FOR MRS. WILSON [ARTICLE]

OLD PLATE FOR MRS. WILSON

Part of Buchanan’s Service Presented to President's Wife at White House. Washington. —Another addition has been made to the White House collection of presidential ware in the form of a handsome Sevres dinner plate from a set which belonged to President Buchanan. The gift has just been received by Mrs. Wilson from James Buchanan Henry of Annapolis. Md„ a nephew and ward of President Buchanan, who served as bis private secretary during Mr. Buchanan’s occupancy of the White House. The plate has an interesting history. It belonged to an exquisite set of pink banded Sevres, each piece of which was elaborately decorated, which Mr. Buchanan purchased at the sale of household belongings of the French minister at Washington during the “time Mr. Buchanan was serving as secretary of state under President Polk in 1845-49. Mr. Buchanan prized the china highly and it was used by him in the White House and subsequently in his home at Wheatland, near Lancaster, Pa. Upon his death the china came into Mr. Henry’s.possession.

253 Marriage Licenses In One Day. Chicago.—Two hundred and fifty-, I tltree marriage licenses were issued [ here on lune 1, fourteen less than a vear ago