Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1904 — A Thirty-fifth Wedding Anniversary [ARTICLE]

A Thirty-fifth Wedding Anniversary

-A very pleasant affair was the ( celebration Friday evouing.. March j 4th, of the 35th wedding anniver j sary of our townspeople, Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Wood, at the residence on Sou'll Division street j It was participated in by about j fifty guests, most of them members j of Rensselaer Post Cl, A. R a id. j Milroy Circle, Ladies of the G. A. j R. The original wedding, which! this event celebiuted took place| March 4th, 1809 at the'home of the j bride’s father, Caleb E, Pierson, 21 miles sou ill east of Rensselaer. It was a big wedding, but of all the gu< sts who attended, only two were at the anniversary, Friday night. They were Henry O. Pierson, Mis. Wood’s brother, and Harvey W. Wood, Mr. Wood’s cousin. Henry Pierson was just a 1 broth of a boy. when the* wedding took pluce and so fyll of mischief that it was necessary to stand him iin a corner with his back facing frontwadrs. when the wedding Monk plaoa,—.———-

Friday evening’s entertainm-mt was successful in all respects, and included a fine supper. . In behalf of the Milroy' Cirole. Mrs M. E. Spitler presented Mrs I Wood an elegant set of engraved silver teaspoons; and for the Women’s Foreign Missionary Booiety of the M. E. ohuroh, Mrs. S. A. Hemphill presented her a souvenir silver spoon with an engraving of the M. E. ohuroh.