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

THE OTIS GOLDEN WEDDING.
PLEASANTLY CELEBRATED, LAST WEEK
Y 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 celebration
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
I John NJ. Otis and Mrs l. Harrison
| Camp. At about $50 p. ~. Arthur II
Nettlcton assumed the role Of chair
man and first introduced Mrs Hewi t.,
who read effectively "Jack and L. "
Chairman Nettleton then introduced
in a tlattering manner, his friend,
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
the Depot avenue. The speaker sug-
gested that Messrs Otis and Gillette
were way ahead of J. P. Morgan in Or
ganizing trusts, having the trust and
| town 40 years ago, and doing nine
tenths of the local building. He told
a few stories and then closed with one
Of Edward Everett Hale'S verses:
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
silent and still;
Where hosses are watered-they turn
ed right in there
To say to some old folks, "You're a
goodlooking 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
asa pin,
When she smiled-that's the way she
took Marshall right in.
The groom's been a worker-got Lyme
in his blood,
Fifty years he and Mary have by
t'Other stood.
A Bangs jined them truly, without gap
And for years he's been banging both
jist and beam.
He's a fust-rate iiner-beats all par
sons ever see,
Has jined church and steeple, made
sash and frame agree;
Has ji'ned the church. and jined the
right one too,
For 'gationalists going 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
To pull in the same traces, and no kick
and no balk,
And go right on together, though
some folks may talk.
It's such lives preach the loudest SER
mons that We hear.
That don't get hitched for fun-jus,
to try it for year.
They mean it when they say, "Till
Death us do part
'Twould take.four yoke of cattle to pull
such jists apart.
Isn't kind of tittin' we're marshalleC
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, pleas
ask every friend
What he thnks-iidvice is what peopl
freely LEND;
We all, more advice in five minutes ar
able to give
Than all married people in some tift
years can live.
Golden wedding, do you call it? Col
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-peact
joy and love,
Things you don't find much on earth
they are right up there above.
All! you can buy |houses, lands, {
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 tt
sun and planets roll,
But the love of God is broader tina