Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-05-06
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL
THE PUTNAM GOLDEN WEDDING.

Pleasant Celebration at Home Of Mr. and
Mrs. c. w. Berry-Purse Of Gold, Flow
ers and Other Gifts Presented.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Sanderson Putnam
of Guilford celebrated their 5Oth wedding
anniversary Monday in the home of their
daughter Mrs. c. w. Berry, on Main
street. There was a family dinner party
at noon with a number of the relatives
from Brattleboro and nearby towns
present, and in the afternoon and even
ing a large number of the friends came
in to bring congratulations. Many letters
and appropriate gifts were received, in
Guiding S25 in gold, many useful articles,
flowers and pictures A feature of the
celebration was the reading of two orig
inal poems in the afternoon. One was
by Miss Martha French of Jacksonville,
who was one of the prime movers in the
celebration of their silver wedding an
niversary The other was by Mrs. Alonzo
Stone of Townshend, and it was sung
to the tune of Home, Sweet Home"
The exercises in the afternoon were
opened with prayer by Rev A. c. Cor
nell, pastor of the Guilford Congrega-
tional church. of which Mrs. Putnam is
a member. After the exercises the pres
entations We're made and refreshments |
were served. Three brides cakes were |
among the gifts one being from Mrs. |
Hattie Allis of Bernardston, one from |
Mrs Henry Cobb and one from Mrs |
Berry. There was another informal en-
tertainment in the evening in which Mr.. |
and Mrs Henry Cobb took the principal
parts
Mr.. Putnam was born In Nottingham
June 6, 1885, and was one of the five
children of Washington and Thankful
CWarner) Putnam. His paternal grand
father was a soldier in the war of the
Revolution, and Mr. Putnam presented
himself for enlistment in the civil war,
but he was not received on account of
his physical condition. When he was a
young man he moved to Halifax, working
there until his marriage to Miss Olive
Cordeia Ballou May 2, 1860. He bought
the Israel Kellogg farm the following
fall and conducted it successfully 80
years. The farm was one of the first to
be settled in Halifax. He gave up active
farming in November, 1889, and moved to
West Brattleboro where he lived two
years. He went then to Guiford and two
years later bought a farm in Bernardston
which he conducted until three years ago
when he returned to Gulford. He has
one brother living George Washington
Putnam of WATERFOWL. s. d.
Mrs. Putnam was one of eight children
of Leonard and Gracia (Boyce) Ballou
and was born in Richmond n. H.. July
Il, 1S4l. Her parents moved to Whiting
ham when she was a child, and she !
attended the district school, a select
school and the academy at Whiting
ham Centre and later she attended Eaton
seminary in Swanzey, n. II. On her
graduation she was given a teachers GER
tifcate. She returned to Nottingham in
the fall of 1859 and was married to Mr..
Putnam the following spring. She has
three sisters and two brothers living,
Mrs. Emma Walker of Fitchburg, Mrs.
Hattie Allis of Bernardston, Mrs Charles
Lee of Southbridge Mass, George Ballou
of Kansas and John F. Ballou of West
minister, Mass. Mr.. and Mrs. Putnam
have five children, Alice, wife of Alonzo
F. Stone of Townshend, Charles E Put
nam of Hyde Park. Mass. Hattie F.,
wife of ]. p. Lscom of Brattleboro, Will
mont A. Putnam of Fitchburg and Mrs.
Berry. There are II grandchildren and
one great grandchild.
Those present at the celebration from
out of town were; Miss Minnie Putnam
of Hyde Park, Mass, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
F. Ballou of Westminster, Mass. Mrs.
Allis of BernardstOn and Mr. and Mrs
A. F. Stone of Townshend.