Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1907 — TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY. [ARTICLE]

TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY.

Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Honan Celebrate Their Quarter Century of , Harried Life. twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Honan, which was celebrated last Friday at their home on Front street, was the moat elaborate affair of its kind ever celebrated in Rensselaer. Five hundred invitatione%ad been sent out, many, to friends at a distance, and three hundred or more of these were present in person during the afternoou or evening of the occasion, and the large number of elegant silver and out glass presents testified to the esteem and remembrance of these distant friends as well as those at Borne. The rooms were handsomely and tastily decorated and between the parlops was suspended the wedding cell. Over each of the doorways and ball-way was entwined silver cord from which little silver bells were hung. Potted plants in profusion lent their fragrance to the occasion, and everything was in perfect harmony in arrangements. The guests on arrival were introduced first to the bride and groom of twenty-five years standing, whom it would be superfluous to say looked charming and were elegantly and appropriately attired, and thence to -the out-of-town guests which included Mr. and Mrs. Philip McKenna, and Mrs. W. B. Austin, of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. James Schooler of Lafayette; Mrs. Frank Wolf of Michigan City; Mr. Thos. Brown of Danville, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. J. C. O’Connor and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. R. Lane of Delphi; Mr. and Mrs. Jira Skinner of Kentland.

The latter was formerly Miss Sallie Hogan, and was bridesmaid at the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Honan twenty-five years before. Dainty refreshments were served in the darkened dining room, which was lighted by handsome candelabras, some thirty guests being seated at the table at a time. Some 150 guests were in attendance at the afternoon reception, from 2 to 5, and about the same number in the evening from 8 to 11. The presents, were displayed in one of the upstairs rooms and attracted much attention, their value reaching way up in the hundreds of dollars. Among the more elaborate was a silver tea service of four pieces from the High Court Catholic Order of Foresters, of which order Mr. Honan is State Chief Ranger; an alabaster cross bearing a figure of Christ in Gold from the faculty of St. Joseph’s College; a solid silver hand-made engraved bridal spoon from Dr. J. H. Honan of Berlin, Germany, a brother of Mr. Honan’s; a set of solid silver knives and forks, candelabras, trays and scores of other articles in silver and cut glass from Rensselaer friends and others from a distance, all forming a picture of beauty and elegance that caused the ladies to go into extacies.

Souvenirs, in the shape of little silver bells and Japanese napkins on which was printed in silver “1882, Honan-Hemphill, 1907” were carried away by each guest, as a reminder of the event. The occasion was one that will long remain a bright spot in the memory of both guests and the host and hostess, and The Democrat joins their many friends in hoping that they may live to celebrate their golden wedding twentyfive years hence..