The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-03-22

26th-2Sth or Wrlte IOr PARTICULARS
LEON NJ. KENDALL, Fairlee, vt.
Comparatively few married
people have the privilege of
spending fifty years together,
but such has been accorded to
Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall e. Rugg,
whose golden wedding was cele-
brated March 18th in the same
house where as bride and groom
thev commenced their welded
life, and spent the first ten years,
and where the last ten years also
have been spent. The day was
filled with pleasure for them by
calls from their pastor and his
wife and nearby friends, and by
showers of letters and post cards,
from others more distant, coming
from all parts of the country
from Maine to California and
from Cabot on the north to
southern Florida. Seventy-one
letters and forty-four post cards,
one highly priced card of greet
inc from Mrs. Pettingill, the
mother of DR.. T. P. Frost, now
nearly ninety-four years of age.
Letters from former tOwnspeople
and former pastors, Rev. L. +.
Frost from Evanston, Illinois,
Rev. NJ. V. B. Knox, StOneham,
Mass, B. P. briggs, Huntington,
West Virginia, Mr.. and Mrs. F.
NJ. Bailey, Dedham, Mass, Mrs.
A. P. Libbey, Randolph, Mrs. j.
Hayes, Manchester, N. H., Mrs.
Ella Patch, Beverly, Mass, Mrs.
Emma PieN,e, Lancaster, n. IL.
Many and valuable presents con
sisting of books, pictures, photo
graphs, towels, handkerchiefs,
booklets, confectionery, fruit and
other souvenirs from friends near
and far distant. Four gold pieces
and other currency to the value
of thirty-four dollars. A pillow
cover and Easter booklets from
Concord friends. A unique bas-
ket containing fifty chocolates
with five dollar gold piece con
cealed in the center, from friends
in Boston and Providence. All
these and many that may not
have been mentioned, only in a
small degree express the high es-
TEEN which is felt for Mr.. and
Mrs. Rugg by their friends and
neighbors, and we but express
the wish of all their friends
where we hope for many more
years of happiness for them.
FIFTY YEARS.
(Poem acritten 6y Rec. III. Y. B.
KnoD, formerly pastor of the church
at FdHIee.)
Two heads that had one thought alone,
Two hearts that hotly thrObbed as one,
Two spoken words and it was done,
Just fifty years ago.
Long welded life is rich in love,
Like river sweep the swift years move,
And strong affections fully prove,
Full fifty years now gone.
If burdens large Of weight to bear,
If duties came demanding care,
Two people strong those hard tasks
share
Now fifty years agone.
When joys with laughter came apace,
And gentle breezes famed each face,
In mutual trust both took this grace,
The fifty years now past.
United were two souls in toll,
One in the house with haste and MOL,
And one the stirrer of the soil,
For fifty working years.
Enriched by joys of social life,
Where free from rancor, hate and
strife,
The joy of friendship has been rife,
The fifty shining years.
OF church life rich beyond compare,
With Heavens gifts as free as air,
Two souls were glad those gifts to
share,
For fifty blessed years.
The sunlight of the summers bright
Just touched the years in rapid flight,
And two lives glorifed with light,
For fifty joyous years.
The winters marked with snow and
cold,
When Boreas' voice grew loud and
bold,
Scarce brought a thought of growing
old,
For fifty passing years.
For books are joy with shut-in days,
When story, news, and poet lays
Show human thought and human ways,
Through fifty wondrous years.
One sunny hearted boy was given,
Too soon from home and hearts was
riven,
Yet led the shining way to heaven,
To follow fifty years.
But children of the lost remain
To cheer the heart like music strain,
Affections fires to stir. again,