The Press., 1914-12-02
HOLLAND.

Willett Morrell spent Thanksgiving with Miss Elizabeth Terhune of Windsor.
 Mir. and Mrs. I. Tilden Jewett were the guests of MT. Jewett's cousin of Hartford Thanksgiving day.
 Mrs. Grace Ludlow left Saturday to spend the winter in Clifton, N. J., with her daughter, Mrs. Macnalty.
 The schools in town were closed Wednesday night for Thanksgiving recess. the teachers spending the time at their homes.
 Miss Florence J. Leonard of Shel- ton and Miss Mary R. Leonard of Hartford were the guests of their parents over the Thanksgiving recess.
 Rev. and Mrs. Wm. Barber and son, Pereie, have moved into one of L. R. Sparrow's tenements MT. Barber has sold his farm to MT. Green Sf Clifton, N. J.
 Judge and Mrs. Edwin S. Agard and daughter, Elizabeth B. Agard, have been spending several days in Westerly, R. l., guests of MT. and Mrs. Harry B. Agard.
 MT. and Mrs. Chas. Macnalty and daughter, Genie, of Clifton, N. J., MT. Holland and the Misses Holland of Rockville were the guests Thanks giving of MT. and Mrs. Vim. B. Lud- low.
 A good many family gatherings were enjoyed Thanksgiving Among them we find MT. and Mrs. Robert E. Doyle entertained a house party of 31. MT. and Mrs. Frank Woods and sons of New Britain, Mir and Mrs. Herbert Kennedy and children of Burnside, MT. and Mrs Alex Shearer and children of Oakland, Mrs. Mary M. Ryder, MT. and Mrs. John NJ. Bowers and family of TollaId. MT. and Mrs. O. H. West entertained MT. and Mrs. Geo. West and family of Ellington and MT. and Mrs. O. K. Christopher and family of Holland MT. and Mrs. L. Ernest Hall and family were the guests of MT. and Mrs. John H. Steele. c. Edward Meaeham and family were entertained by Mir. and Mrs. Henry Young. MT. and Mrs. Donald J. Grant of Mapping were the guests of MT. and Mrs. Frank T. Newcomb. MT. and Mrs. Lorenzo R. Sparrow were the guests of MT. and Mrs. MyroD G. Sparrow on Thanksgiving.
 MT. and Mrs. Julius O. West cele- brated the fftieth anniversary of their wedding Wednesday evening, Nov. 25, by receiving their friends and relatives at their home from to II o'clock. About 150 guests were in- vited and nearly all were present to offer their congratulations. The house was tastefully decorated with laurel and chrysanthemums and green and gold crepe paper, the color scheme being green and gold. Buckminister' orchestra furnished music poem written by one of the daughters, Mrs. Nettie West Stoughton of Mapping, was read A vocal solo was rendered by Arthur w. Gyngell Many beauti- full gifts were presented to MT. and Mrs. West, including a purse of gold of over $2OO. The children each presented them with a ten dollar gold piece, making $6O in all from the children. Refreshments were served at the close of the evening. Mir and Mrs. West were married in Tol- land at the Barber hotel Nov. 25, 1864 by Rev. Abram Marsh, pastor of the Congregational church. They went to live in Ellington, but re- mained but a year and then moved to Hartford where they spent two years. They then returned to the farm they now occupy, having spent forty seven years of their married life there. | Julius c. West was born in Colchester | Jan. IA, 1899, the son of Jabez and | Fannie Baulch West. When he was twelve years old he moved on to the homestead he now occupys, following | the occupation of farming all his life. | He represented the town of Holland | in the legislature in 1877. He has brother, Orrin O. West of Rockville and two sisters, Mrs. Fannie H. Thompson of Waterbury and Mrs. Carolyn N. Burton of Providence. Mrs. West, one of sixteen children, was Martha J. Charter of Ellington, daughter of Sanford and Ruth Charter, being born July 13, 1S43. She was a teacher for nine terms, teaching in ''the good old days'' when the teach CTS all boarded around. She has four own brothers living Alonzo D. Charter of Stafford, Clinton J. Charter ot Ellington, Franklin Charter of North Windham, Alfred U. Charter, Crystal Lake; half brother, Charles w. Charter of Rockville, and a half sister, Mrs. Lucy A. Palmer of Somers Mir. and Mrs. West have six children Julius s. West of Waterbury, Mrs. Edgar Stoughton of Mapping, Walter P. West of Rockville, Howard O. West of Rockville, Mrs. Will Howri- gan, Toronto, Ontario, Byron E. West of Mapping. They have ten grand children.
 WELLINGTON.