Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-29
CELEBRATION OF
GOLDEN WEDDING
Notable Event Today at Home
of Major and Mrs.
Harlan Cause.

1t WAS Victor Hugo who remarked thai
10 sec "A Young couple loving each other
Is no wonder. but Ia sec AN old couple
Still in the hcvdcv of their affection, Is
a wonderful thing.
This afternoon Major and Mrs. Harlar
Cause arc celebrating their golden wet
ding by having their friends and acquant-
ances call AT their home 6I9 Delaware
avenue, and they arc receiving host oi
good wishes from kinSfok and relatives
AL over the country They arc rccclv-
ing, and they have children and grand
children 10 assist them IN the entertain
ing There arc Mrs Owen {. Spear
and her daughters, Mrs Robert II. MariS,
Miss Eleanor Spear. home from assar.
and Miss Marjorie Tatnall Spear from
Hannah More Academy; Mrs. Charles
X Ieffcris. .lr. wife Of Captain JettcrlS,
Go. c. First Delaware Regiment. now at
Camp DIX. and their children. Charles
r. ,Ietfcris. Sd, and knnC and Ruth jet
ferris: Mrs Adair and her husband, llr
Julian Adair. and their daughters. Ellen
and Elizabeth. and Beverly Roberts
cause. with the National Fibre and In
->uation Co \ orhlVn Those of their
children and grandchildren arc with Mr.
and Mrs Cause 10 enjoy the day re-
ccptiun. but thcN have two sons. who
could not be here Edmund Canhv Cause
1T Pittsburg Pa manager "i the Pitts
burg office Of IIa~ku~ a sells Auditing
Go Of New York City. and James liar
Ian Cause master signal Clcctrct3n oi
the 10Th Field Signal Rattahon. Camp
AicC'l Anul~ton. Ma. Alr~ James
II GatlS, Is, however here. and viii re
mann fer fortnight visit with her
fathrr-in-law and mothcr-in-lav
yp..,It Nffrt.f | ~. FIRST | p-FpTprl
bishop of Delaware. performed the ccrc-
mon1 IN - Andrew Chnrch. that united
Harlan t;au~c aud Ellen Candy, At u
O'Clock in tia, morning uu Sprl 3H, lNbN
The t,rtdc W.1~ gwen ~ marriage 10y her
l,rothcr. The late NlaJor Samuel CanhN.
:4nd She Wa~ attended hy her SISTER Miss
Niarg:arct Caub> Miss Lucy NShrW. now
Nir~ job II jackson and Miss tannlc
BrnrhIc the ltr Nir- William II
Brmchlr Tho .reoln-mcu were lhc
bride brother. the late fdmund Anbl
eud samuel Vi Harrington and George II
Betr~. both ot whom dsci som, Ncar> ~"
NI.Ior and Mn t,.,i-r have hycd RI
n.N> u Wilmington \ IoV years ~"
thr un+tal became bhnd iIct~ hoWcNrr
ilr splendid }'hySlr, condition aud
Mrs CarI~c enjoys excellent health
Mr.. tsauSc is a CulomaI Dame Soy
cratIoli~ 81 I're,~ Caulr- aui la;ual>
who have figured n this borough ami
then citN and always served ITS best
purposes Joseph IatnaN The Quaker
friend oi Washington. who told George
hat he could not fight hut 'hai hc could
feed the army and lld contrlbutc many
thousands Of barrels of hnur Wa- her
great grandfather licr father Ma Edmund
Canhv. and li~ father with James
Price her mother father founded
the | mon National Bank 50 hat Nlr~
Cause had two grandfathcrs among
the first directors Of that sterling ana well
founded financial institution These two
men also were leaders IN tho founding ot
the T.. b. and n railroad, and James
Price was the first president Of the Della
ware railroad The Canh1S built what
IS now BlShopstcad and sold II to Bishop
Lee for the residence ol the hcad ~ the
church
The portraits of Pricc and anbH and
some Of the other portraits ot presidents
IN the directors room oi Inc mon Bank
are due very largely 10 the energy and
persistence of Mrs Cause who located
their descendants and coii@.tcd from
them the funds for presenting the plc-
lures 10 the bank
Major Causes parents were Harlan
and Rebccca TAYLOR G:tH~c OF hcnnctt
Square. Pa. and hc belongs 10 he we'll
known Cause and IayIor families OF
Chester county He served long and
faithfully in tho CIVIL War. and now lives
to see his son and eon-in-iaw 90 forth 10
right again the battles OF freedom and
democracy Iii l>63 MIR Gau>c formed
II company in the Fourth Delaware \ ol-
untccrs, and was their captain He
fought from 62 q ~ and nc last year
ot tho war Was in tho famous Army 81
'thc Potomac In 1861 nc Federal gov
ernmcnt made him major hv brcvct. and |
IN 1865 lieutenant colonel by hrcycl |
st he close I'll the War Governor { aunou |
commissioned him major Of the Fourth |
Delaware.
Major Cause Is among tho last Of the |
veterans who served their country in u |
great crisis. who must nov look on Whlic |
Younger mon wIrh tho same devotion /
and the same spirit take their places II |
tho american line of battle
There Is ii flag fiviug from The Cause |
homo TODAY Just a~ ono spread itself /
10 tho breeze Id thc ~ixtIc> and there are
flags All over the reception and dining |
rooms and spring flowers and all kinds |
OF heartines> and cheer and good wishes /
and everything IS most au-picious and |
Their golden wedding is a |
pleasant diversion from the war that /
occasion that everyone who attends /
ful impressions