Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1887 — A Notable Gohlen Wedding. [ARTICLE]

A Notable Gohlen Wedding.

The fiftieth wedding rtnniversaiy of onr county recorder, Thomas Antrim, anti his good wife, was srticcessfullv celebrated last Tuesday. A golden wedding is a rare • event,'in any case, while its celeibrntion by. ati incumbent county officer is an event quite unique in Jasper county history. Thomas Antrim and Lucinda W. Massey a were * married in Grant county, tins state, Dec. 27, 1837. The house in which the ceremony took place was very near the then raw little village of Marion, and the very spot is now Covered by the thriving gas city of that name.

The married relations then be- ! gun have continued for a half cen- , tury, and it was meet that the fiftieth anniversary should have ! been observed in some fitting nlanrner. ’ ; The guests present, Tuesday jif. j ter noon, at the Doctor's pleasaiit but modest residence, in Newiofi’s addition, were about 100 in number. The leading features of the occasion was the disposition of a royally good and abundant dinner, and the presentation to the worthy couple of many valuable and apl>ropriate souvenirs of the anniversary. Among these were a splendid gold headed cane, presented to the doctor by his fellow county officers and an elegant and costly pair of gold spectacles, pre-, sented to Mrs. Antrim by Messrs J. T. Handle, W. T. Moore, G. U. Brown, B. Paris, H. W, Porter. Dr. J. H Loughridge and wife presented a pill box, which contained a five dollar shinert Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Meyer gave a>2.50 gold piece. Mr and Mrs. Spitler a gold thimble and a gold tooth pick (theold folks still wear their own teeth) Philip Blue and AV. B. Austin a rocking

chain Nothing need be said in praise of the dinner farther than it was produced by the ripest skill of those able culinary artists Mesdames J. F. Irwin, C. H. Roberts, Geo. 0. Hoover and J. C. Morgan. The Cornet Band put in an appeal unce during the festivities (the wind being favorable for smelling the good dinner) aud after regaling the wedding guests with the Choicest pieces'in their repertoire, they also gathered round a well filled table and transposed an astonishingly large portion of its burden |to their own inner anatomical recesses. Among the guests present were three of the font living children of I the Dr. aud Wife and Mr. and Mrs. IL L. P. Massey, of Gillam tp., the former being a’ younger brother of Mrs. Antrim.