Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-31
GETTY YEARS nARRIED"
Mr.. and hrs. w. r. Mead Entertain
in Charming Manner.

The leading social function of the
month was the reception given from
eight to eleven o'clock Wednesday
evening of last week by Mr.. and Mrs.
| w. X. Mead, which was the occasion
of their fiftleth wedding anniversary,
large number of friends and relatives
being present. ,. 80
The home was beautifully decorated
with evergreen, roses and carnations.
Spruce sprigs forming line OH the
walls around the rooms just above the
The windows were daintlly interviewer
With. golden colored ribbon paper,
while pretty bouquets of carnations
and roses we're suspensed at convenient
distances-all forming happy and
pleasing contrast.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Mead received their
guests in the north east corner of the
parlor, sitting i'll easy chairs under a
handsomely decorated canopy and
beneath large, life.like portraits Of the
honored couple, looking, and possibly
feeling little more aged than when
their marriage VOWS were spoken fifty
years ago, but apparently as happy
and joyous as ever.
The marriage ceremony which made
this twain one was performed IN the
town Of Busti, Chautauqua county, N.
Y, in 1916, William Robbins Mead
being twenty.one and one. half years of
age, Miss Chole Ballard Jones, a trifle
past sixteen. AT the time Of their
marriage, Mr.. Mead was a teacher in
the public school at Busti; be continu.
ed that vocation until 1858, when they
moved to Beloit. Wis.,. where he
taught that winter. Durin, vacation
lin 1851. Mr.. Mead came to Iowa aud
located 200 acres Of government land
near Maquoketa, Iowa. Moved from
Beloit to Dubuque IN 1854. Read law
and was admitted to practice in New
York. Was engaged in law practice
in Iowa from 1855 to 1875. Admitted
to practice in the Supreme Court of
the State in 1860. During all there
years, from 1913 to the present time,
Mr. Mead has been in the newspaper
business either as editor or reporter.
politics having more attraction than
law. In 1889, MIR, Mead established
the Iowa Plain Dealer at Newt Oregon.
Howard county. Iowa. aud has been
its editor and publisher continuously
since that date, making it one of the
leading weekly papers of the state.
| Dainty refreshments were served IN
1.-THE dining room, the table being
elegantly and profusely adorned with
ferns, Perle des Jaidins roses and
smilax. After refreshments were dis.
pensed, Mrs. Moon, accompanied by
Mrs. Kellow on the piano, sang s'In
the Sweet Bye and Rye" very sweetly
and tenderly. Robert Thomson re.
cited .Recollect,ons Of a Trip TO Bonnie
Scot and" and Miss Lauralne Mead
favored the friends with delightful in.
strumental selections.
The friends present from distance
were Mrs. Ella pissmore, eldest
daughter of Mr., aud Mrs. Mead,
Lacota, N. D.; Mrs. A. S. Mcconnell.
Dealwood. S. D.; Mrs. Eloise Sweet,
Alden, Mimi; Mr.. and Mrs. F. NJ.
Clark, Lime Springs.
i Although it was announced thai
gifts were not desired, Mr.. and Mrs.
Mead were the. recipients Of many
,aluahle~and,usefnl tokens of love and
friendship from Their friends.
1 As the evening declined toward the
hour of eleven, tho company dispers'
ed, carrying remembrancea of the
pheasant event and wishing their host
and hostess many, many happy years
more Of married life. -Republican.