Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-12-19
COUPLE CELEBRATE
5Oth Anniversary

Sunday, December 18th, was
memorial occasion to the people O
Coulee City and surrounding com
munity, for on that day two of it!
leading citizens, old in years bu
young in spirit, celebrated the oc
casion of their 50th anniversary O.
married life. Mr.. and Mrs. H. w
LANCE have resided in Coulee Gle,
for the past nine years, and b,
their graciousness, their friend
illness and their kindly disposition
have endeared themselves to the
entire community.
The celebration was in the form
of an Eat home occasion and the
day was indeed busy on efor this
aged couple, who have weatherec
the storms of adversely, who fought
shoulder to shoulder with theil
neighbors in a determined effort
to wrest livelihood, from the virg-
in soil, emerging at last with a
feeling of victory well won. From
early in the morning until late in
the evening, friends, neighbors and
casual acquaintance Wended their
way to the LANCE home in this city
to pay their respecst to this aged
couple, congratulate them and to
wish them many more anniversar-
les of married life.
HI. w. LANCE was born on March
81, 1849 at Ringkjobing, Denmark,
the eldest son of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Julius Lange, hearty pioneers Of
that country. In March 1871, in
company with a neighbor boy he
came to the United States and set
tied temporary at Dewitt, Clinton
county, Iowa. Two years later he
moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and
in 1875, found his way to San FraG
cisco, California. Being intered4ed
in mining, he moved shortly t09Yre-
ka, California, and filed FN&.min7
ing claim. His younger b1thgr Isl
now living on the q LIN upon;
which Mr.. LANCE filed many year.:
ago.
In 1877, becomin( ~tired of CALI
fornia, he came to. the state y
Washington and purchased relins
punishment on $50 acres of land=
one and one half mile from ColfaXs
He lived there until 1885, when hq
was united in marriage to miss Ma
Ida Hoteling, then a teacher in ths
Colfax schools. In the fall of thai
year Mr.. and Mrs. Lange moved ttS
the North Coulee, where they lived
continuously until 1927, when they
moved to Coulee City, where they!
have since resided. While her chill,
rem were being educated, however,
Mrs. Lange lived at Wilbur during
the school ysar fofen 9 -Nsssft.9 MIR.
and Mrs. Lange made the trip from
Colfax to the north eHIlee in a
covered wagon and in early
days experienced the ups anoa6pwn
and reverses of pioneer life WAe
same as their neighbors. About fifs
teen years ago Mr.. and Mrs. Lange,
who had lived in SO called home
stead shack, replaced in with a
fine modern stone building, which
is still one of the very best in the
north Coulee.
Mrs. LANCE, whose maidenname
was Matilda Hoteling was born at
WATERFOWL, Wisconsin, on January
13, 1856, reputed to be have been
the coolest day in the history of
Wisconsin. She received her edu-
cation in the Waterville schools.
Later attending Normal at White
water, Wisconsin. In the year 49,
S3 she came to the state of Wash
ington with her grandparents, and
was married two years later to Mr..
Ian ge.
Besides practically everyone in
city, the following out of town
guests called at the Lange home
Sunday afternoon or evening. From
Wilbur: Mr.. and Mrs. Vego Jorgen-
sen, Mr.. and Mrs. HulyaT Jorsen-
sen, iMr. and Mrs. Carl Lauritsen
and daughter, Pierre Folburg. Jess
Jensen. Mr.. Peterson, Mr.. and Mrs.
King Anderson, Mrs. David Thomp-
son, Mrs. Anna Jepsen. Ml. and
Mrs. Alfred Anderson and two sons
Franz Madsen. From Spokane:
MI. and Mrs. John Peterson, daugf
ter and son in law of Mr.. an Mrs
Lange, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Gibbs
and daughter andAlene Peterson
Miss Peterson and Mrs Gibbs are
gre lddaughters of the aged couple
from Osborne: Mr.. and Mrs
Je5 Evans, daughter and son in
1aiy Of the Lange's. Mr. and Mrs
Tics. Osborne, Mrs Oscar Osborne
Mr.. Young, Charley Osborne, Mr.
AM Mrs. Dan Leal and two daught