Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-11-02
GOLDEN WEDDING CELE-
DRAFTED IN OCILLA

ne parents OF Mrs. w. ID. Branch
OF Fitzgerald are Mr.. and Mrs. ]. ].
Paulk of Ocilla. On Tuesday, October
3lst their friends and their children
combined to give them a rousing eel
ebration of their golden wedding day
Mrs. Paulk was Miss Lott of C1inch
County and Mr.. Paulk was member
OF Well-known family of Irwin Co.
They married at the early age of 10
and ~ and so are comparatively
young and strong to be enjoying an
event that comes to relatively few
people
They were blessed with nine child
rem in all, though there are but six
remaining. These are all married with
good-slzed families of their own and
living near so that the old people
have the pride of seeing some forty
odd grandchildren growing about
them.
Their children in order of age are:
Mrs. D. w. Vickers of Douglas, Mrs.
Alonzo Tucker of Willacoochee, Mrs.
John Daniels of Willacoochee. Mr..
E. L: Paulk of Rockingham, Mrs. H.
Z. Shaw of Nashville and Mrs. w.
d. Branch of Fitzgerald. All of these
have families of from six to ten child
rem except Mr.. and Mrs. Branch who
have gut three, Myrtice, w. D. Jun
1or, and Milton c., who are pupils in
the Third Ward School in Fitzgerald
Some of the interesting facts of
the married life of Mr.. and Mrs.
Paulk- are that they have never been
separated from each other for more
than two weeks, and have had but
little illness and though Mr.. Paulk
had a stroke of paralysis some years
ago he has recovered fully and for
the most part has enjoyed a healthy
and easy life since retiring from farm
work about II years ago, at which
time they moved to Ocilla and bought
the handsome home of Mr.. Ira Paulk
who in turn built himself much fin
er one About that time Mr.. Pau1k
served Irwin as its county treasurer.
Though enjoying the friendship for
many years OF some of the older fam
lies OF the county, there was but
one guest in attendance at the cele-
Dratlon who had witnessed the we'd
Ding OF fifty years ago, and this was
Mrs. f. L. Vickers of Willacoochee.
the sister of Mrs. Paulk.
A long table was spread in the ward
at the noon hour and beautifully lad
en- with the most delightful picnic
dinner that large number of friends
and neighbors could provide. Some
OF these were Mesdames F. L. McEL
roy. C. A. Walker, E. S. Clifton, G.
u Meeks, R. Johnson, Robert Pau1k,
James Paulk, and others.
At the dinner hour Rev. z. L. Paulk
offered prayer and enjoyable talks
followed by Mrs. ]. J. Pau1k, Mr.. J..
L. Paulk, and Rev. Arnold, pastor
OF the Methodist church and Rev.
Albert Sutton of the Primitive Bap-
fist congregation.
Following the dinner completed
with hot coffee, the guests went in
doors where a splendid disvlay of the
many handsome anniversary gifts
were viewed, Thees comprised tok-
ems in gold, in silver, china, crystal,
and linen, and conspicuous were the
number and was the beauty of the
cut tloWers,. almost esua1 to a flower
show.
AS little fun-making on the side
Mr.. VIM. Henderson recalling past
customs had prepared a little den1ind-
er in the way of bottle of cinnamon
drops which figured so prominently
IN their youthful days as the last FRA
grant touch to the young mans toilet
The day was one of hearty satisfac-
ton to all who were favored in the
participation of it.