The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-22
LANES CELEBRATE
 GOLDEN WEDDING
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| lContinued from Page One-) | Another is William H. Goodsell, a | brother of Mrs. Lane, ST. Both at tended yesterdays festivities The | third surviving guest, Peter Skiff, who l now lives in Cheshire. Conn.,, is 96 years old In a letter of regret at be- 1 ing unable to be present he stated | that he would have come only his | family though that with so many speeding automobiles and fast trains | about, he was too young to be allowed | so far away from home. In spite Of his years. MT. Skiff is still hearty and l vigorous. He is distant relative of l ''Bilr' Skiff of the Bridgeport base ball team. MT. Skiff's present to the | couple consisted of three brooms that he had made himself a short time ago.
 The wedding of MT. and Mrs Lane was performed December 21, 1870. at Kent, Conn.,, by Rev. MT. Goodenoush,
 a Congregational minister Both were
 natives of Kent. Mrs Lanes maiden name was Sara E. Goodsell. Five children were morn, of whom there
 are surviving four sons, Hugh F.,
 who followed in the footsteps of his father and became conductor on
 the Berkshire Division; Charles E., fuel supervisor for the New Haven ter B. Lashar, who hasN been in MT. I.ashars employ for 24 years; and Roland C., sales manager in charge of the New York office of the Bridge
 port Coach Lace Go.
 The grandchildren of the couple are Maud Lane, daughter of Charles;
 Roland N., Esther B. and Nancy S.,
 children of Clark P. Lane, Jr.; and AIthea and Roland G.. IT.. children of Roland G: Lane. All the children and their families were present, ex, cept Mrs. Clark P. Lane, Jr., and l daughter Nancy.
 } MT. and Mrs. Lane spent their hon
 eymoon in New York city, and it is in teresting to recall that they found it , necessary to leave Kent at 10 in the
 morning in order to reach New York
 the same night.
 MT. Lane was for 50 years a con } ductor on the New Haven road, for most of the time the Berkshire division. He estimates that he has 5 travelled over 3,0oo,0o0 miles. For 3 25 years he took the m. train out
 of Bridgeport to Pittsfeld. When
 he started railroading the round trip : between Bridgeport and Pittsf1eld took ! three days, and then was reduced to two days. Thirty-five years ago, the first round trip in a single day was
 experience he has never been in q l serious wreck. "Reminiscences Of
 old days In railroading between the
 guests were features Of the converse
 tion last night.
 The Lanes have lived for 20 years
 at 3S7 East Main street. They came 5 to Bridgeport in 1888 from Pittsfield l and their first home here was in Gil- | 9 marriage, MT. Lanes railroad duties called him away from the little tow of Kent. They lived for @ time in West Stockbridge, Mass, then in Great Harrington and then in Pitts :; Yield.
 ] The number of guests was limited
 to relatives and a few intimate
 resented in Mr. and Mra Clark Lane, ST., Mrs. Lanes niece, Mrs. Fred = R. Lane of Kent, Conn.,; her son q horntCn Lane. and Dwight Lane. a t grandson Of Mrs. Fred Lane. Wal t ter Lane, a brother of MT. Lane, ST, e his wife and their four children, :. Edith. Ruth and Dorothy, all of New n Rochelle, N- r.. were present.
 From Bantam Conn.,, came Mir.
 and Mrs. Edwin Hatch. who had in d March of the present year celebrated = their own golden wedding, at which t t most of the guests of last evenins i of Clark P. Lane, ST. Other guests e were: William H. GoodseH of New J. town, a brother of Mrs Lane; Mrs. e q widow of a brother of Mrs. Lane; Q Mrs. Homer Goodsen of Stratford e Mrs. Charles Trowbridge of Roxbury
 Conn.,, and MT. and Mrs. William
 Goodse1l children of the late Charles T Goodsen. With MT. and Mrs. Will 7. liam Goodseli were their two sons = Charles and Andrew, and their daugh- o ter Edith. Two nieces of Clark P
 
 = Vernon, N Y., and Mrs. Schoonmake1 r. of Bantam attended, the latter accom- d panied by her husband and the for n mer by her son Robert.
 It Other guests were Frank Shove 9 Mt. Vernon, N Y, treasurer of the Borden Milk company; Fred Shove
 South Norwalk MT. and Mrs. George
 Lane, New Milford; MT. and Mrs
 Fred Darling, Bridgeport and Dr. an6 ls Mrs. c. BlackInan, Bridgeport. n Charles Miller and Roland Phelps 'i who had acted as brakemen for years T. under MT. Lane on the Berkshire di .- vision, were present with their wives Y, Other old railroad friends of the cou II pie who attended with their wives
 were MT. ana Mrs Minot Lyman
 Bridgeport; Mr and Mrs F7ret , Kingsley, Pittsfe7d, Mass, and MT n and Mrs. William Ingerson. Grea ,s Burlington. Mass.
 II Mrs. Nancy Nicholson of this city l- and Mrs. Edward Lyman of Wes sa Stockbridge, Mass. widows of former
 co-workers of MT. Lane, were in at
 tendance, and the remaining guest
 were MT. and Mrs. Isaac Lyman o in this city, MT. and Mrs. George Hull Id of Stratford, MT. and Mrs. c. W 1e B1ak eman, Mrs Frank Short ant 9 Mrs. Edward Fairchild.
 ,e Showers of letters of congratula e. ton, all of which are much prized b,
 MT. and Mrs. Lane, nave been pour
 ing in them for days. Many gift
 were received, but no attempt as ye g. has been made to list them. ht The italian ambassador to Brazil i