Williams news., 1914-10-01
THEIR 61sT .
 WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
MT. and Mrs. Phillips a Liv- ing Contradiction of the Fallacy that Marriage is a Failure.

It does not often fall to the lot of the average married couple to cele-' brate even their fortietll wedding anniversary, and when they do 1t is a matter of pleased comment among their friends. Golden we'd dings when they occur are seized upon as items of news to be noted in papers of more than local circu- lation.
 We have however in Williams a couple who have passed even the 6ftieth milestone in their married life as the following will attest:s
 "A simple but pretty wedding was solemnized September. 25, 1858 lat. the home of Mr.. and Mrs. A. Skinner, in Antwerp Jefferson Co, N. Y, when Miss Maria l.. Skinner became the bride of Edward PhilL lips. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. L. D. Ferguson, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Theresa in the same county z
 MT. and Mrs. Phillips celebrated their 6lst wedding anniversary at Jstheir home in this city, last Friday. ] Congratulations and good wishes were showered upon. these good 1people from friends and relatives in New York, Wisconsin, Kansas, South Dakota, Washington, Gait fornia and from friends in this city. These all came as 8 surprise to them and served to heighten the Ienioyment of the occasion.
 This couple has travelled lfe's journey together for sixty-o ne years in harmony and mutual con 1 fdence and esteem. The fire of af- |fection which was kindled in 1853 has never grown dim, but burns as brightly today. as when they first started out together, thus furnish ing a striking contradiction to the widely exploited fallacy of today Ithat marriage is failure. E From New York one of the. east ern most states of the union, the migrations of this couple have brought them to Arizona the most westerly but one. In passing it
 might be we'll to note the success i've stages of the journey which has. brought them thus far west. In
 1856 they moved to Port Huron, Mich, where they lived until the fall of 1860, when they moved <, Calumet County, Wisconsin, to hew' them out a home in the then. almost unbroken flores 8 of north ern Wisconsin The following year the civil-war broke cut, an.l l needing the call of his counfry,s MT. Phillips enlisted in Co. E. 2lst Wisconsin regiment. H e took part in the battle at Perryville--, I two months after his enlistment- ] Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain, Missiona, Ridge and the actions. ! following Sherman's departure on; I May 7th, 1864, for Atlanta, At T Altoona Pass he was wounded, and sent back to Nashville where he arrived. to take part in the battle of Nashville.
 On June 9th, 1865 he was dis charged, and returned to tue task, laid down three years before, of completing his home, which his good wife alone and almost unaid- ed, had worked and kept up dur ing his absence.
 In the spring of 1876 they nov ed to Wichita Kansas, and in Now ember 1912, they came to Will jams.
 MT. and Mrs. Phillips have al ways stood for all that is good in American citizenship, and MT. Phillips has always been ready with voice and vote to champion any cause which had for it's object the uplifting and betterment of the