The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1907-03-14
TWENTY.FIFTH
ANNIVERSARY
w. N. A. Club AsreeabIy Surprise
Well Known Family on Their
25th Anniversary.

On the eighth day OF March, twenty
five years ago, Mr.. w. O. p. Hilsdale
and Miss Gyda Norderhus were mar
ried at Minneapolis, and shortly after
wards established their home at Sank
Centre; Mr.. Hilsdale having already
made his debut in business circles the
preceding fall:
The W. n. A. embroidery circle of
which Mrs. Hilsdale is an enthusiastic
member, have made it a custom to
observe each others anniversaries by
some little extra festivity, frequently
in the form OF surprise party. Mrs.
Hilsdale having had her suspiscions
aroused by the audible "hushing"
and large silence on the subject of
anniversaries at the society's meet
ing of last week, resolved like "Betsey
Bobitt" that she WANT goin' to be
s'prised." Only instead Of emulating
that we'll known character of fiction
and turning the surprise party back
at the door she made plans to turn the
surprise on her guests by having
everything in readiness for the enter
tainment. But the ladies of the circle
had suspicious, too. Consequently
they chose the evening preceding the
anniversary, and succeeded in catch
ing their hostess unaware. The circle
members and the masculine honorary
membership" Ito the number Of
about forty met at the home of Mrs.
Perry, and managed to come out just
in time to join Mr.. Hilsdaie on his
way home to supper. Though Mrs.
Hilsdale's supplies for their enter
tainmeat had not yet materialized,
she found that her moIrow's baking
had been adequately anticipated when
the guests began unpacking the
baskets they had brought. Under a
dozen experienced hands the family
supper table soon gave place to a
spread of greater dimensions.
At the close of the supper Mrs. E.
J. Lewis, in few we'll chosen words,
expressed the congratulations and
good wishes of the society, and pre-
scented to the bride handsome sterl-
ing silver berry spoon appropriately
engraved as a souvenir OF the occasion.
Mrs. Hilsdale responded by magnani-
mously forgiving her friends for the
manner in which they had gotten
ahead OF her, and thanked them for
the pleasure of their presence.
Such anniversaries are generally
the occasion for great family re-
union, but the Hilsdale anniversary
was unique in contrary manner,
the immediate members of the family
being very widely scattered.
Mr.. Hilsdale's mother, the only
surviving parent of either side, lives
in Trondhjem, Norway. OF his three
sisters Mrs. Holme, resides in
that same northern city; another,
Mrs. Hugo-formerly Mrs. Orner, and
at one time member of the Hilsdale
home at this place-now lives in the
southern part of Sweden; the third,
Miss Hilsdale, makes her home in
Denver, Colorado. Mrs. Hilsdale's
relatives are not less scattered. Her
sister, Mrs. Pease, who acted as
bridesmaid on that twenty-five years
ago occasion lives at Tacoma, Wash
ington. One sister lives in North
Dakota, and another in Copenhagen,
Denmark. An elder brother spends
most of his time in Norway, and an
other has large farm near Murdoch,
Minnesota; with such poor railway
connections to this place that the
simplest means of exchanging visits
is by driving across country the fifty
intervening miles.
To cap the climax OF this scattered
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Hilsdale's son
is at present in New Haven, Conn.,,
attending college, and their daughter
is at Paris, studying music; having
been away from home over year and
a half.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hilsdale seem to have
found Sank Centre the right place,
however, having resided here con-
tinuously since their coming of twenty
five years ago; their present home
being even located on lots adjoining
the place where they first set up house
keeping.