The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-02
MARRIED FIFTY ONE YEARS

l MHnnlEU TlTll~ ~VNE lUhNU | 4NNIYERSARYRE REC EPTION BY REY. IND MRS. r. IT. ADAMS. Given tn Honor of Mr. Adams' Parents Wedding Anniversary mnd His Fathor's Eightieth Birthday Yestsr- dny-Couple Heartily CongrstuIated- Splendid Presents.
 An event of considerable interest to New Haven residents, and especially to Methodists, was the reception given yesterday afternoon and last evening by Rev. and Mrs. Fred WinsloW Adams in honor of the eightieth birthday of MT Adams father, Rev. True P. Ad- ans, and the tifty-tirst anniversary Of the marriage of Rev. and Mrs. True r. Adams. The reception was held i'll the very pretty Adams residence, which is the Epworth Methodist parsonage, at 177 Lawrence street, during the hours from until and from 8 until Il. The
  lively decorated with the green plants and foliage emblematic of the season. The venerable couple were assisted In receiving by their son and daughtef m the front parlor, and they were the re- cipients of hearty congratulations and well wishes of the several hundred per- sons who attended.
 In the refreshment room Mrs. c. Il. Platt and Mrs. Frederick BostWick were in charge. They were assisted in dis pensing light refreshments by Mrs Hart. Miss Helen Garvie, Miss Agnes White Miss Marion White, Miss Elsie Bradley and Miss Edna Crandall The ushers were Frederick Bostwck and w. B. Hall.
 A number of handsome and valuable presents were received, chlef among them being fifty one dollars, or one dol lar for each year of their married life. Tbis money was handsomely arranged in a neat frame by Mrs. F'rederick Bostwick. At the top were the numer- als 1S51-19O2 and in the center were ten ive-dollar gold pieces arranged in the shape of letter A, while surrounding this at the sides and below were twen- ty fve-c cent pieces. making in all the fifty-one dollars. With this was a mem orial which read: "Mr. and Mrs. True P Adams, in commemoration of the tit- ty-flrst anniversary of their marriage and MT Adsms' eightieth birthday, January 1. 1902" There was also an- other money present of twenty dollars and several volumes of splendid litera- ture pictures clocks and fancy work.
 Rev True P. Adams has been hVe years over half century in the nm istry and was for fortyo one years travelling preacher in the Maine confer ences He was admitted into the East Maine conference the year of its organ ization, and after twenty-one years or service was transferred to the Maine conference, where he spent twenty more wears of active service, and Of Whlch body he is still a member. The year De- fore be joined the conference. While Ill business, he received local preachers license preaching seventy-five times and walking 400 miles. His first ap- pointment in the East Maine confer ence was an Aroostook county circuit of five preaching stations where during the year he walked 2,300 miles One Sabbath he walked fifteen miles and preached three times without eating MT. Adams has been an indefatigable worker all his life. and revivals always attended his ministry. NotWithstand- ing the strain of his work, he did not lose a Sundays service on account of sickness. with but one exception, in thirty eight years.
 Mrs, Adams maiden name was Dor cas Ellen Winslow, and she was the daughter of Quaker parents Both are remarkably well preserved and bid fair to enjoy many more years.
 Among those present at the reception were:
 MT. and Mrs Tenant, MT. and Mrs. Camp, Mir. and Mrs. Feyley, MT. and Mrs, Fulford MT. and Mrs E. A, smith, MT. and Mrs. Barnacle, MT and Mrs. Bostwick, Mir and Mrs. George Brad ley. MT. and Mrs. George Northrop, MT. and Mrs Edward Delaney Eaton, MT. and Mrs Henderson MT. and Mrs. F. H. Wilcox, Mrs Dr, Sanford, Mr. Marsh Mrs. R. Y. Elliott, of Phiadel- phia. Presiding Elder and Mrs John E. Adams. Rev. and Mrs Duane N. Griffin, Rev. and Mrs. Frank R. Luckey, MT. and Mrs. Wsde Rogers, Mrs. Sherlock, Miss Sherlock. Mrs Thorpe. MT AclSer i'll, Mrs. Hart, Mrs. Bacon. General Pierpont, MT Bierkan, MT. Judd, Mr. Allison Mrs Hale, Miss Edna Cran- dall Mrs. Garvie, Mrs. T. Smith, Miss Helen Garvie, Miss Marion White, Miss Agnes White, Robert White, MT. Sco- field, Frank Northrop, MT. Herrick. Mrs. Wardel, MT. and Mrs. I. N. Dam, MT. and Mrs. r. A. Johnson. MT. and Mrs. c. A. Morse, MT. and Mrs. w, E. Hall Mir. and Mrs. George Staley, Mr. and Mrs. Van Dine, MT. and Mrs, c. II, Platt. MT and Mrs. Arthur Swift, MT. and Mrs. Hopkins, Mir and Mrs. Shamp, 1 MT. and Mrs. White, MT. and Mrs Lew is. MT and Mrs. Hayden, MT and Mrs. MT. and Mrs. Wilson Mir and Mrs. Elder. MT. and Mrs. Tomp- lxins. Dr. and Mrs. Burdge, MT. and Mrs Borg, MT and Mrs. Perrigo, Mir and Mrs. Norton, Miss Robertson and l Mrs Burritt
 
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