The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-28

Last Monday evening Mr.. and Mrs
Harry E. Parker celebrated the fit.
teenth anniversary of their marriage
at their residence in this village. The
grounds were Illuminated by Japanese
lanterns and the interior Of the house
was handsomely decorated with ferns
and autumn leaves. The Bradford
Brass Band discoursed fine music dur
ing the evening AT eight O'Clock the
guests began to arrive, and the recep-
ton lasted until 1880. The exercises
consisted OF Il pra, rby Mr.. Lees, at
ter which MIR liough read the follow
ing original poem,
The streets are alive through Bradford town,
The trains come loaded from Lisbon down,
Your house is filled inside and out,
And what the trouble was all about
We thought would just call up and see
Annie Maria and Harry E.
But fifteen years $50 | heard them say
Have drifted out since your wedding day;
So the people crowd in unawares
And fill the rooms and climb the STAIRS,
Cling to the banisters, crowd the halls
And pack in columns against the walls
And swarm the lumned park outside
To see if the knot the Parson tied
In Nashua that September day
Has loosened any along the way
But it seems tight knot can be
Annie Maria and Harry +.
You have had your little spats and spars,
Those amiable, domestic wars,
And fought them fairly, firmly through,
As all good married people do,
When she said "Mr. Parker" "Sir!"
And he sat still and didn't stir,
When things grew formal, distant, cold,
And solid facts we're plainly told
Then like an Indian summer, changed
The atmosphere; no more estranged
: You hitched your chairs up closer still
Folks always did it and always will.
If yoh haven't quarreled would tonight,
For making up is worth fight
Sweeter than drops from honey bee
Annie Maria and Harry E.
When you left your own for our fair state
You showed good judgment at any rate,
For nothing on earth is quite so good.
As these green hills; and It's understood
Our men handsomer, finer bred,
And our women are just shade ahead
W anything nature has moulded yet
The other side the Connecticut,
Excepting yourselves, as all agree,
Annie Maria and Harry E. |
Vermont will at once and kindly take
10 people Of just your style and make.
She knows the touch Of friendly hand,
A generous soul she can understand
ne voice that some human nature fills
Will wake the echoes through all her hills
And people Of genial. social parts
Can walk straight into her heart of hearts
And sit down solid and let things GO;
That is like Vermont; she always so.
And the greeting extended here tonight
Is the way she says-'Oh, they're all right"
You are just her sort Of folks to a T
Annie Maria and Harry E.
voice the emphatic, sober, strong
United Opinion" of this throng,
The churches and parties all agree,
odd Fellows some OF them though they be
That house packed full through every room
With song afoat in flowers perfume
And the choicest gifts love could display
Clncluding the supper we've put away
And all that in this glad scene appears
To finish the fifteen happy years :
Is just the triumph you ought to see
Annie Maria and Harry E. IL
We wish you all that wish can frame,
With troops of friends and wealth and fame
With public honor, domestic bliss,
The best there is in a world like this,
And children, well, il they're like those three Il
One in each hand and two on each knee
Annie Maria and HanyE
ca NAV the future be fair and bright II
Made after the pattern Of this glad night
New hearts in the growing list enrolled
While you keep as sacred as love the oo
The choicest blessing attend your way,
That is il YOU should conclude to stay
Tn the erandest state, and Bradford town
IL not we shall have to tone this down i,
Such blessings are only for this State
To move NAV fashion a different fate,
But. Of course you'll stay till your hairs like snow
or there isn't a lock where it used to grow
And the goldenest golden wedding see
Annie Maria and Harry E.
Refreshments were then served, and
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