The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1903-01-02
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
THE OTIS GOLDEN WEDDING.

THE OTIS GOLDEN WEDDING.
PLEASANTLY CELEBRATED, LAST WEEK
| WEDNESDAY EVENING.
The pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs
Marshall Otis was filled by company
of Is or more, last week, the occasion
being the golden wedding celebra ton
of this worthy couple, which had been
quietly arranged by the Congregation
al church people under the leadership
of Rev Otis W. Barker. The bride
and groom received in a bay window,
under an arch of evergreen and were
assisted in receiving by Mr. and Mrs
John NJ. Otis and Mrs l. Harrison
Camp. At about $50 p. m. Arthur T
NettletOn assumed the role of chair
man and first introduced Mrs Hewitt,
who read effectively "Jack and :"
Chairman NettletOn then introduced
| 'Judge A. P. Smith," who spoke in
formally. Mr. Smith traced the his
tory of Mr. Otis informally, telling Of
his days at work as an apprentice at
carpentering to good Dea Gallup of
Norwich, of his arrival in Newtown,
of his courtship and marriage with
the daughter of Abel Gillette, of their
beginning housekeeping in the Street.
of their 16 years residence on the
Boulevard and later of their removal
to their present attractive home on
gested that MessrS Otis and Gillette
were way ahead of J. P. Morgan in Or
ganizing trusts, having the trust and
confidence of all the people of New
town 40 years ago, and doing nine
tenths of the local building. He told
few stories and then closed with one
of Edward Everett Hale's verses:
1--WE live for those who love US
For those who love us true
For the Heaven that smiles above us
And awaits our coming, too.
For the wrongs that need resistance,
For the rights that need assistance,
For the future in the distance
And the good that we can do.'
Miss Susie J. Scudder then read Sc
lection on "Marriage." Zalmon S.
Peck, 80 years old, was introduced,
making an exceedingly bright and fe-
licitouS address. Mrs L. G. Morris
read in an effective manner poem
written for the occasion by Rev Otis
w. Barker. 1t was as follows:
Twas the night before Christmas
when down the Church hill
Congregationalists were slipping, so
Where hosses are watered-they turn
ed right in there
To say to some old folks, "You're a
good-looking pair"
Good looking? Uncle Marshall? Now
fur the land sakes,
But when he was courtin'-What
changes Time makes!
Aunt Mary! she's allays BIN handsome
as pin,
When she smiled that's the way she
took Marshall right in.
The groom's been worker-got. Lyme
in his blood,
Fifty years he and Mary have by
t'Other stood.
A Bangs jined them truly, without gap
or seam,
And for years he's been banging both
jist and beam.
He's a fust-rate jiner-beats all par
sons ever see,
Has jined church and steeple, made
sash and frame agree;
Has jined the church. and jined the
right one too,
For 'gationalists gong to Heaven are
booked clean through.
Now you are laughing, dear friend, at
this comical rhyme,
But l tell you, without joking, that
it's long time
IT ;o1z
and no balk,
And 60 right on together, though
some folks may talk.
It's such lives preach the loudest SER
mons that ye hear.
That don't get hitched for fun-just
to try it for year.
They mean it when they say, "Till
! Death us do part''-
'Twould takefour yoke of cattle to pull
such jists apart.
Isn't kind of fittin' we're marshalled
Christmas eve,
Congratulations hearty both to give
and to receive?
Isn't it sort of clever to "Mary" Jane
we're saying,
"a Merry Christmas" as our best re-
spects we're paying?
OF course twas rather awkward they
were jined so near the line
OF Christmas-they should have
asked opinions, your idee and mine:
And when they had sorted all opinions
sifted every one,
They would then have suited-just eX-
actly none.
Next time you folks get married, please
ask every friend
What he thinks-advce is what people
freely lend;
We all, more advice in five minutes are
able to give
Than all married people in some tift,
years can live.
Golden wedding, do you call it: Gole
is what the Magi brought
To the Christ-child in the mango
when their richest gift they sought
Gold stands for all that's good-peace
joy and love,
Things you don't find much on earth
they are right up there above.
All. you can buy houses, lands, a
the merry world doth move,
But. say, there's one thing you can
, buy-that one thing is love;
''God is love-" the God who makes th
sun and planets ROLL
But the love of God is broader tina