Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-09-11
MEYERS ARB MADE HAPPY BY SHOW
 OF FRIENDSHIP
Hundreds Congratulate Judge and Mrs. Meyer at
 Golden Wedding.

More than a thousand friends and well wislers attended tho leception5 Sunday afternoon aid evening in hon or of the golden wedding of Judge their daughter, Mrs. Leo kastor, 203 Martin Place.
 The handsome home wore gala ap- pearance, the parlors, library, recep- ton hall and diningo room being enl- bellished with beautiful chrysanthe- mums and roses, sent by friends in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Some came from Fayette, Miss, the girlhood home of Mrs. Meyer, and where she was married fifty years ago.
 More than one hundred telegrams of a,congratulatory and felcitous na- ture were received, coming from friends in all parts of the country. and these were read by the recipients with as much pleasure as they en- joyed when reading the messages fif- ty years ago on the occasion of their wedding.
 1 ,. and from 8 to 10 during which there was a constan: stream of wis itors, and on each occasion callers came in before and aftef hours stat ed.
 Judge and Mrs. Meyer were deeply affected by the large attendance ana the expressions of their friends, both saving that the friendship and good will of their fellow citizens are the greatest treasures they possessed in the world and recHoned them as sweet and as precious as the love ot their own children and grandchildren. Speaking of this friendship and good will. Judge Meyer, his voice l tremulous with emotion, said, "lt is this which makes life so we'll worth the living, and is worth more than all the money in the world
 Men in every circle of life nave been relating instances in the lie ol Judge Meyer which attested the sin cerity of his statement as 70 the value he placed upon friendship and good will.
 Instances of the unselfishness of Judge and Mrs. Meyer to the interests and welfare of others throughout the years of their lives in Pine Bluff were recalled by men and women who nave known them well and who are in nosition to know. for neither the judge nor his wife will speak Of these thlngs saying at all times that the command s"To love thy neighbor as thyself, holds as true today as when 1t was inferred in the days of the prophets. They have demonstrated their faith ln this command and have been obedlent, regardless of their own convenience or the cost.
 | There was but one note of sadness throughout the period of the celebra tion, which began with the anniver- sary dinner Saturday at the Hotel Pines. This note was caused by the absence of Judge Meyers brother, who lives at Birmingham, Ala, and 1 who was unable to attend on account of the illness of his wife. They re- ceived a beautifully rrhased message of congratulations from the absentees.
 The members of the party at the golden wedding anniversary dinner were Judge and Mrs. Meyer, MT. and Mrs. Lawrence Calm, Shreveport, La; Mrs. Florrie Kastor, and son, Dolph I Kastor, of Pine Bluff: Mrs. Frank Isaacs, St. Louis; MT. and Mrs. Joe Meyer and children, Doris and Gabe Meyer of Pine Bluff; Mir. and Mrs. l. R. Meyer and children, Herbert and Bertha Meyer of Port Gibson, Miss; MT. and Mrs. Percy Meyer of Shreve- port, La; Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Rosen- | berg, Mrs. Julia Roesnbau am, Mrs. Julia Rosenbaum, MT. and rs. Harry Rosenberg, Leo and F. M. Rosenberg, MT. and Mrs. Marion M Marx, all of Pine Bluff; Joe and Willie Levi of St. Louis; Selden Rosenbe1g. Stanley Dreyfus, Lee Summerfield, Little Rock; Mayor and Mrs. Simon Bloom. Miss Alice Meyer, Rabbi Raphael Gcldenstein.