Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21

hILE rossrum-perched alarmists
XAH are megaphoning the nation
Wv sonorous warnings of domestic
- peril hurting yard after yard OF
16Y2EHAI statistics designed to prove that
divorce Is increasing. that there
is spirit of matrimonial restIessness ram
pant In the land and that marriage Is a
failure. there comes by way Of happy vari
alton a golden wedding story from viz
hsea' la, which tends to place the alarm
lists wall In optimistic eclipse
Fifty years ago last Sunday, in Waynes
poro, Pa, George Oliver Lemlcy and Miss
PhoeN Swan We're married Soon after
"ard tney came to Iowa as pioneer build
ers and they have lived there ever si,ce
Last Sunday their beautiful home in VII
nsca was the scene of a happy conclave-
a remarkable gathering OF children. grand
children and great OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES oc-
casion being a celebration OF the LemIev's
golden wedding. with the family reunion
IS an incident thereto. This gathering
vas remarkable in several ways. but per-
laps the most unusual feature of il is the
act that all OF the descendants of Mr.
ma Mrs. Lemley were present except
Ane, Miss Glenna Day, a grand
laughter, who is a student in New Yo,k
dty. II was impossible for her to be pres
ent, but she sent a CHEEKY letter instead
snd 1t was given prominence in the pro-
)eedings Another phase that ranks as
remarkable is the fact that out of this
large family of four generations. there
has only been one death-that exception
peing daughter-in-law the wife of
Sazear Lemley, an Omaha railroad man
1t is not often that so large a family
VAS not been visited by more than one
Aeath. Moreover, 1t is not often that in
q family reunion all but one are present
George Oliver Lemley, looking every inch
the sturdy Iowa pioneer was born in
7reen county, Pennsylvania. November ~,
1889, and is therefore II years old. To
look at him, you would not judge him to
be more than somewhere in late fiftiss.
TO see him move about. you would rctract
your estimate and size him up as being
Somewhere in the early fifties, and espe-
cially agile, at that. His hair is only
hinged with gray Many city reared
man OF 40 has more of gray hair and less
Nuppleness of limb that has this septua-
yenarian. He has lived his life in the
open, and perhaps that accounts for his
remarkable preservation of pnyaical and
mental power.
Pennsylvania, too, but iust when-well. she
declares it is nobody's business, and thai
In this year of 1910. as It has been through
ell the other years down the ages. it Is
not good form for woman to parade hei
age. Like her husband she is also quit,
IsASoung for a golden wedding and the grace
tul and easy manner in which she pre-
sided over the Lemley table at the biz
golden wedding feast was the wonder O
spectators.
And cook! II is part of Villsca's un.
written history that the Lemey kitchen
has no equal in southern Iowa, all o
which is fully attested by the bounteou
banquet that came as a part of the Sun
day celebration.
Grandpa and Grandma Lemley'-nobodS
makes use of these titles except those VIII,
by blood are so entitled, because Mr.. ant
Mrs. Lemley are not OF the type TO carr!
well the neighborhood veneration thus i'm
piled where the terms grandpa" an,