Golden Wedding (McDonald)

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Howard Courant
November 22, 1923

Last Sunday, November 18, 1923, about ninety friends and relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Sam McDonald gathered at the old home at Busby to help them celebrate their Golden Wedding anniversary.

The weather was ideal for the occasion, being a direct contrast to that in Indiana fifty years ago, therefore the table was spread in the yard and to the strains of "Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet,"  in pantomine, all assembled around it.  A huge turkey with trimmings adorned the center of the table.  This was prepared by the 72 year old bride's own hands and displayed culinary art not excelled in the high schools of today; which also accounts for the hale and hearty groom who has thrived on such cooking through all these years.

Another feature of the dinner was the beautiful Golden Wedding cake with fifty golden candles, baked by the youngest daughter, which was cut by the bride.  The oldest daughter received the piece containing the darning needle and the oldest granddaughter present, the piece containing the ring.

A dainty dish was prepared for the family by Mrs. Walter McGugin--a molded fruit salad with a gold star in the center, for the son who fell in France, encircled by eight designs for the living children, all being present except the son Fred, or Canada.

The only distant relative present was Mrs. McDonald's only sister, Mrs. E. J. Jones of Sullivan, Indiana.

Among the honored guests were Mr. and Mrs. George McCulloch, of near Severy, who recently celebrated their own "Golden Wedding." She presented Mrs. McDonald with a lovely centerpiece of her own modern hand work.

Other tokens of remembrance the beautiful cut flowers and potted plants presented, furnished a fit emblem of the occasion.

After doing sample justice to the bountiful dinner and spending the afternoon in discussing the events and changes of the past fifty years, all went home wishing this old coulpe many more years together.

In musing over the events of the day all decided they had not yet done justice to the occasion, and joined to the leadership of "Old Dad" McCulloch and Walter McGugin in an old fashioned charivari.  The groom wass agreeably surprised, but as is his custon, made himself equal to the occasion and brought forth the candy, dainty looking, though not so delicious as the maple sugar cakes of fifty years ago.

This was also the 17th wedding anniversary of their oldest son.

Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Houser and baby, of Howard; Mr. and Mrs. Geo. MuCulloch, Severy, O.S. Barnaby, Elk Falls, Mrs. I.W. Bell and baby of near Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Klingel and son; Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Patterson, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Cutter, Mr. and Mrs. Walter McGugin and sons; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Pilcher and daughter; Mr. and Mrs. Elof Johnson and family; Mr. and Mra. J. A. Lanning and daughter; Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Shipley and family; Mr. and Mrs. P.M. Steele and baby; Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Foote and family; Mrs. Bertha Ketterman and son; Clara McCulloch; Mr. and Mrs. Will Haggard and family, all of Busby; Mrs. E. J. Jones, Sullivan, Indiana, Theodore McDonald and family, Elk Falls, Elmer McDonald and family, Howard, Cash McDonald and family, Fall River, Ron McDonald and family, Busby, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kessling, Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Davis, Neodesha; Mr. and Mrs. Bert Grubbs, Morehead; and Mr. and Mrs. S. McDonald.

[Teresa]

Okay.. I know that this is my relation, but I will have to tell Mama to get on here and "splain it all.

She has had some Norton problems but Kjell went down and got her all fixed up tonight so she is virus free and ready to go.