The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1920-11-30
see~H>A~HoA~~H<
MILLERSBURG
S>>A>>>> - 1890

jjN 80 . . . - . >>>e.
Mr.. Fred Hill. If Center College,
DansaHe,, spent the week end at
home,
MIR. Bait. rton, of Eminence, is
the guest of his sister. Mrs. J.. w..
Ingeis.
Miss Mary Mcdaniel, who
teaches at Cyuthiana, spent the
Thanksgiving holidays at home.
Mrs. =. M. Ingels left Saturday
for visit to her brother, Mr.. John
Ross, and family, at Lexington.
| THE SICK-Mes1am:s Clara
Shanks, Fannie Norton and Anna
DarneH continue about the same.
MRS.. B. Cray returned Satur
day after weeks visit to her sis.
Ter, Mrs. w. F. Judy, at Lexington.
Mrs. Hensley and daughter.
Miss Patsey Clay Hershey, spent the
Thanksgiving holidays with relatives
at Winchester.
| Misses Marguerite and Edith
Wood spent the THANKSGIVING holi-
days at home. The former is teach
| ing at Sharpsburg, the latter at Gym
thiana.
| -Messrs. e. M. Ingels, L. E.,
Clarke and F. J. Savage, the latter
of Paris. left Saturday TO a months,
hunting and fishing tour in Miss.
issippi They will spend a part Of
the. time with Mr.. and Mrs. c. c..
Clarke.
| Mrs. s. C. Bascoin and dangh-l
ter. Miss Sue Bascom lief: Friday for
a visit to her sister, Mrs. Ralph Mil
Ter, at Cincinnati. She returned
Sunday, accompanied BY Mr.. Bascom,
who has been absent 70: :: month on
a hunting and fishin5 rip in Ar
kansas. ;,
- The children and grandchildren
of Mr.. and Mrs. James s. Clarke as:
sisted by Mesdames Frank Ingels and
Green Leer, their nieces, gave sur
prise dinner Wednesday, November
"a, at the home of this elderly couple,
celebrating their Golden Wedding.
The table with large yellow chrysan-
themums and other decorations in
keeping with the occasion was ar
ranged to resemble as nearly as pos
sible the table at the home of Mrs.
Ingels' father on the occasion fifty
years ago when her parents entertain
ed this couple as bride and groom at
a wedding supper.
Only few of their older relatives
were present in addition to the imme-
date family.
To the strains of "When You and
Were Young Maggie" played by the
victrola, the guests entered the din
ming room, led by the honored couple,
where dinner consisting of all the
. good things of the season was served.
An amusing feature of the meal was
the cutting of the wedding cake"
when darning needles, thimbles, coins
and rings fell to the lot of unsuspect-
/ ing applicants for a slice of cake.
} Throughout the meal other mu-
; steal numbers were rendered includ-
ing, "Silver Threads Among the
, Cold" Mother Machree" and ss'The
, Rosary" At its conslusion, Hiss AL
berta Foffett, the eldest of the eight
grandchildren, and as spokesman for
} them, presented the bride of fifty
years with a wedding ring. Follow
, ing this, Mrs. Jones R. Price, of Es-
condida, the youngest child of the
family, presented the couple in the
name of the eight children, with bag
containing fifty dollars in gold pieces,
the bag being made of gold-colored
satin, piece of the wedding bonnet
! of Mrs. Laura Vimont Layson, moth
er of Mrs. d. E. Clarke.
, The afternoon was spent by the
, older people reviving old memories
, and reviewing the incidents of the
occasion Of fifty years ago, which was
enjoyed by all present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarke possessed with
unusual vigor at the respective ages
of seventy-nine and seventy-six years
are the parents of eight children, all
of whom are living, and eight grand
children.
Besides the immediate family there
were present: Mr.. Joseph S. Clarke,
of Sharpsburg; DR.. and Mrs. w. H.
Dye, of Ewing; Mrs. William Hutch
inson, and daughter, Miss Lyle Hutch
inson, of Nepton, KY; Mrs. C. s. Ball,
of Paris; Mrs. Frank Ingels and Mrs.
Green Leer, of near Millersburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarke are members
of two very old families who came to
Mason County over hundred years
ago, the one coming from Fluvana
County, Virginia, and the other, the
Dye family, from the state of New
Jersey, about the same time
Kentucky was then very young as
state and the elder Mr.. Clarke
bought at that time from the govern
ment large tract of land extending
from what is now Fairview, Fleming
County to Mayslick, Mason County,
at the sum of $1.25 an acre.
The original Clarke home located
near Johnson Bridge on the Mays
vile and Lexington pike is now own
ed by B. D. Clarke, of the fourth
generation of the pioneer Clarke,
thus having been in the possession of
this family for over century this
house and another that was burned
years ago having sheltered seven gem
erations of the same name. It was
planned to have representatives of
| five generations present at the Cold