The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-18
The Silver wedt,ing

When Pa and Ma had been married twenty-five years We told the neighbors with smiles and tears, It was when my Brother was going on twenty three, And everybody was just las Interested as they could be. They all said we will come II you have a party And congratulate your parents on be- ing so well and heagty We had the minister read the notice out in church So that no one in the neighborhood would be left in the lurch. It was a pleasant evening and tho moon shone bright, And the folks came from far and near; it was pretty sight TO see the teams all hitched up to our fence
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 ~Myrtle May.