The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-09
WOOD WEDDING
Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Goodwin CsIs' bTats Theirs Many Gssts PTss- snt-BIg Dinner Gogus
 List of Presents

One of the most briIlyuntest soshial | funckshions which has been consutnmat- ed in BingviIle for 10, these many months, took place in our midst last Thursday
 when MT. and Mrs. Elisha Goodwin ceie-
 brated the eleventh anniversary of their
 lng.
 years agone under auspishious circun-
 stances. Before che was married Mrs. Goodwin's name ARes Patience Stout. the respeckted daughter of old Jabe Stout,
 who then lived down Sorrow Hollow way and does yet, for that matter. Lash and Patience set up housekeeping in Bing- vile where Lash worked around by the day wherever he could get work and they was very happy indeed. To make them more so twins came to bless their
 union at the end of about a year and following the twins they had i've other
 children making seven in all, if our arithmetic is correct.
 The fourth summer after Lash was married he got employment with Ab synders thrashing machine crew and was earning dollar and a half per day when e awful catastrophe overlook him. One day at the noon hour when the machine was stopped for dinner to let the crew eat Lash he laid down on the feed board at the mouth of the thrasher and went to sleep and when the machine started up suddintly it ketched his leg ana took it ofR just below the knee. This discouraged Lash considerable at the time. but bye and bye he was up and around on er,Itches and later he went to the Co., seat and purchased a woodleg for hisself which was a fine fit and soon he was back with the thrashing crew feeding the machine as of yore and earning the
 K.s4a flas AkrN of. Lash says he don't miss his leg half as much as he would his pipe.
 well, as Mir. and Mrs. Goodwin's 1ith anniversary approached they decided to hold a wood wedding. so invitashions was sent to most everybody in Bingviile and vicinity to como and join in the fes- tivities, and early last Thursday morning people afoot. on horseback and in wag- ons could be saw vending their happy way to Lash's place, which stands just on the outskirts of Bingville. In honor of the occashion Lash killed a fatted calf. which was roasted whole out In the front yard for a big dinner. which was served under the trees. The house was filled to overhowing with gests, and them as couldn't get in met in social intercourse under the shade of the trees. Lash had also sent to the CO seat and got a half dozen lemons and made tubful of Lemonade which was very re- freshing indeed.
 Rev. Moore the beloved pastor of the BingviIle church, wa& present, and at high noon Lash and his wife appeared arm in arm on the front piazzer to the strains of a wedding march. which Miss Amelia Tucker played on the melodeum in the parlor, and, while they stood up arm in arm, surrounded by their children, two dogs and the cat. Rev. Moore reit- erated the words of the Marriage cere- mony by which he made them man and wife ii years previous It was a very afeckting scene Some of the women present broke down and cried, while others rushed forward and congra tulated Mir. and Mrs. Lash on having lived to- gether successfully for the period of il years Then everybody set down to a table which groaned under a weight of good things. and they ct it to bust. Af- fer the dinner numerous games was in- duleed in, and along lords evening the gests departed eonschious of having had a awful good time and glad they had went.
 Below we take pleasure in giving a list of presents together with the names of the donaters:
 Mir. and Mrs. Jabe Stout Cher parents) "a wooden leg for Lash; Mir. and Mrs Simon Goodwin (hls parents )--a briar pipe Mir and Mrs. Hen Weathersby--a wood butter bowl; Mr. and Mrs Anne Hillyer--a rolling pin Mfr. and Mrs. Cy- rus Hoskins--1 doz. ciothespins; Mir. and