Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-01-16
GOLDEN WEDDING.
Capt. and Mrs. o. w. FOsS of Ham
cock HOnOred by Friends.

| January IL, 1874, were heard In
Hancock last Friday, the occasion be-
ing the golden wedding anniversary
of Capt. and Mrs. Orlando w. Foss.
The event was celebrated first by a
family gathering at the home during
the day In the evening the town
hall, which had been lavishly dec
GRATED with evergreen, flowers and
balloons, was filled with an inter-
ested, kindly audience which had
come to tender congratulations and
| good wishes to the bride and groom
of fifty years ago.
Shortly after O'Clock Capt. and
Mrs Foss received their guests in a
corner of the room which had been
transformed into a bower, with fit
| ting background of green that was
artistically mingled with gold
| en-hued flowers. Grants orchestra
furnished the music. Following the
reception, a banquet was served in
the dining-room, where the decora-
lions were again distinctively green
and gold.
Capt Foss was born on the same
| homestead where he now resides.
Here he has lived his life, with the
exception of the years he spent upon
| the seas. Upon retiring from sea
life, he devoted his time to public
work, having served in the legisla-
ture, filled prominent county and
town offices, and is now president of
the Liberty National Bank of ELS
! worth. Mrs. Foss was Miss Caroline
| C. Moore, also born in Hancock, and
/ who spent her girlhood days only a
i t,n II
Nine children came to bless this
union, four sons and five daughters
Capt Boyd P, who died in Mel
rose, Mass, in 1910; Capt. Harold
G., of Melrose, who is now engaged
in importation of fertilizer from
Venezuela, S. A.; Ivory H. of Mount
Desert Ferry, former member of the
Maine legislature, justice of the
peace, and for several years chair
man of Hancock's board of select
men; Orlando W., jr., 141 Milk
street, Boston, writer of insurance
and sales manager of the U. S. Pro-
ducts Co.; Flora, wife of G. H. Abb
bot, Allston, Mass. Clara, now Mrs.
H. w. Johnson, Hancock; Lillian,
Mrs. James c. Worthen, Melrose,
Mass; Gertrude, Mrs. Herbert Len
tilhon, East Orange, N. j., and Edith,
wife of j. F. Kelly, Orono. All of the
eight sons and daughters were pres
ent except Mrs. Lentilhon, who was
unable to come.
Capt and Mrs. Foss were the re-
cipients of countless letters and tel
egrams of congratulation, flowers
and gifts Among the latter may be
mentioned a beautiful vase presented
by the directors of the Liberty bank,
a magnificent gold pendant and
large gold ring bearing the Masonic
emblems, both given by the Misses
Austin of North Hancock. An origi-
nal poem written for the occasion by
Alfred B. Crabtree was read. An
other, sent by the author, Miss May
Clark of Atkinson N. H., is printed
below:
BY ALFRED p. CRABTREE.
Fifty years you've trod life'S highway,
Fifty years of sunshine and clear
weather,
Few have walked so long together.
We knew you in your younger days
BY the names your parents gave you,
And did call you when in speaking,
Caddie Moore and Orlando w.
When you decided to sail together
over lfe's seas and on ocean tossed.
We were pleased with your we'll
Then we called you Capt. and Mrs.
O. w. Foss.
Then, when you were blessed with
And your ocean days were DER
HIGHER honors to you We're, given
Hon. o. w. Foss and lady, the names
you bore,
Now this evening, we would greet you,
And high honors put aside;
Let the Capt. and Mrs be our greeting
While with thee our hearts abide.
May your years be like the colors in
the rainbow
Many in number. and all so bright,
And your lives be like the sunshine,
Clear and brilliant, ever diffusing
light.
And when through life serenely you
have passed,
And landed your frail bark beyond
life's sea,
May your eternal lot be cast with those
Who know no sorrow and can feel
no pain.
BY MAY e. CLARK
a golden anniversary.
What memories arise!
Fifty years Joined together
In dear hymeneal ties
What varied recollections
Anniversaries always bring;
How tender are the memories
That ever around them cling!
Now. in good New England,
In the town OF Hancock, Maine,
Lived a bright, pretty maiden
Carrie Moore was her name.
And in the sane old town,
Not so very far away,
Dwell smart young man;
And the two met, day by day
So, on the eleventh of January.
In eighteen hundred seVenty-four,
This young man, Orlando Foss,
And the ma iden, Carrie Moore,
Took upon themselves a holy promise,
Which they have kept day by day,
Faithfully, for fifty years,
AS they have journeyed along the
way.
Fifty years ago tonight,
Since you twain were we'd
Since you to the altar
Your blushug bride led,
And in the bonds of wedlocll
You twain were made ore,