Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1917 — WERE MARRIED FIFTY YEARS AGO [ARTICLE]

WERE MARRIED FIFTY YEARS AGO

- -n- ■ Mr- and Mrs. W. R. Nowels Quietly Pass Fiftieth Wedding Anniver- * sary—ln Perfect Health. ! W. R. Nowels narrowly averted forgetting a most important fact today. In calling at The Republican office this Wednesday morning he discovered that the date was the fourteenth I and incidentally that it was the j fiftieth anniversary of his wedding. I Mr. and Mrs. Nowels were married in Battle Ground, Ind., March 14, 1867, by Professor Rice, a faculty member at that time of the Battle Ground Collegiate Institute, in a hotel of that city. " - Mr- and Mrs. Nowels are in perfect health today and the former states that he feels as young as he ever did and that he expected to celebrate many more such anniversaries. Mrs. Nowels is ’alto 'well preserved and both are receiving the fruits of lives well spent. ; With the exception of six years spent -in,. -Flora, Ind.,. Mr. and Mrs. Nowels. have spent their married lives in this county, where the former has engaged in the successful practice of tilling the soil the majority of»the time. He also owned and operated fehft elevator which is now owned by Babcock & Hopkins. The Tatter years of this venerable couple’s lives—havebeeh spent in RensseTaer ih the property in which the parents of Mr. Nowels, Mr. and Mrs 1 David Now’els, lived. Mr. Nowels several years ago retired from every day", toil and they is now living a happyx and contented life of ease and comfort. The name Nowels has been linked with Jasper county from the very earliest period and David Nowels, father of W. R. Nowels, was the first white baby bom in the county. David Nowels and wife both lived to an advancedage and their married life extended over a period in the neighborhood of sixty-five years. Mr. Nowels spent 35 years of his Hfe in the j ministry in traveling in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois and Colorado. He states that he has never asked a person for a penny Jto help him on his way. So far as the ministry is concerned, he is opposed to all new-fangled things that have come up in later years. He feels that the gospel as given by the Saviour is perfect and cannot bfe improved upon. He is opposed to dancing, card play-1 ing and all the things that have become so fashionable both in and out <>f the church. Mr. Nowels also says that he has never entered a saloon or taken a drop of liquor in his Hfei-~*-Ten children Were bom to Mr. and Mrs. Nowels, all of whom-are living. The children are as follows »Mrs. Ray D.-Thompson, Mrs. May Witham and Vem Nowels, all of Rensselaer; Mrs Adelma Alter, of Forekt, Inti.: Mrs. Lillian Brownson, Gavlond Nowels and Charlie Nowels, all of Longmont, Colo.; Mrs. Ada Wheeler, of Flora, Ind.; Mrs. Lawson Myers, of Gary, Ind.; Mrs. Ida Cochran, of Tacoma, j Wash. „ J ~*S •