The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-03

cocks daughter, Blanche, was
the first telephone operator
Mount Clemens ever had, SER
vicing the dozen telephones tina.
began the city's system from a
tiny office in the back of the
drugstore.
Mr.. Donaldson, after finish
ing school, Immediately went
into the business of his father
and uncle, w. S. and A. T. DON
aldson, respectively, and has
carried on in the company ever
since.
Mrs. Donaldson says that her
relatives planned her wedding.
They gathered syringa branches
and decorated the home, prepar-
ing for the family gathering.
The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. j. E. Richards. then
minister of the .'irst Presbyter-
ian church, of which both bride
and groom have always been
members.
Mrs. Donaldson wore a grey
cashmere dress, and they were
attended by Louis Fluemer. a
relative of DR.. Oswald c. Flue-
mer. and Della Babcock, the
brides sister.
Avoiding trip to Mackinac Is
land followed, and then they
went to housekeeping on Market
street. They moved several times
in the first few years they were
married, settling 81 years ago
in their Lincoln avenue home.
Two children were born to
them, a daughter Rye, named
after her maternal grandmother
(now Mrs. Austin w. Heine) and
and a son Courtney. who died
at the age of three. DR.. and Mrs.
Heine's two daughters, Sigrid
and Cynthia, are the couples
only grandchildren.
Among the guests at the we'd
ding fifty years ago were many
well-known Mount Clemens per.
sons, some of whom will be with
them again next Tu' sday: Frank
Babcock of Detroit, a brother of
Mrs. Donaldson; Robert Babcock
of Mount Clemens, then three
year old child; Mrc. Edgar H.
Racine, then Meta Dor aldson, a
cousin of the bridegroom; Harry
S. Donaldson, Flora Donaldson,
now Mrs. Posner; hrs. Maude
Donaldson VanderVoort, who Is
in California at the moment, but
who spends a large part of her
time in Mount Clemens; Mrs. j.
j. Collier, who was 10 Groes-
beck; Mrs. H. M. Hamilton of
Lansing, who was Rose L. Groes-
beck of Mount Clemens at the
time of the wedding; Mrs. Frank
Linnebacker (Maude Groesbeck)
and Mrs. Casper Chick Emma
DuLac )of Detroit.
Mrs. Donaldson's reminiscenc-
es of the early days of Mount
Clemens telephone system re-
veal that phones were q matter
of business only for the first
few years. Ullrich's Hardware
store had Number /, has been
kept in the family, and is today
Mrs. Charles r. Ullrich's num-
Der. Others in the first list were
Lodewyck's Livery stable, Ca
dy's Livery Stable, the Sherman
House, the Park H otel, the Avery
House, Lonsby and Sons Lumber
Yard, and a group of doctors, in
Guiding DR.. w. G. Tenant, DR..
H. c. Kelly, Drs. Henry and
Harry Taylor and DR.. Chaplin.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Donaldson
are well and active at the age
of 70 years. Mrs. Donaldson be-
longs to the Ladies' Auxiliary Of
the Presbyterian church, What
soever Circle of Kings Daugh-
tiers and the Garden Club. She
works indefatigably in her gar
den.
Mr.. Donaldson has been a Ma
son for years and Is the treasur-
er of the Old Crowd, which con-
venes each year during the sum-
mer. Both have watched the
town grow from a village, seen
Lincoln avenue develop from .
lane lined with trees to a street
lined with homes far beyond
what was then open fields.
DR.. and Mrs. Heine an6 their
two daughters, Sigrid and Gym
thia, will receive with Mr.. and
Mrs. Donaldson at the reception
on their golden wedding day.
They will all return today from
Greensboro, N. c., where they
attended commencement exer-
cises at which Miss Sigrid re-
ceived her college degree from
the University of North Caro-
lima.
STAFF SERGT. AND MRS.
CLARENCE w. ARSON have as
their guests Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter Stephens and sons Raymond
and Walter Jr. of Chicago, at
their home in the new Selfridge
Field development on Joy boule-
ward. Mrs. Stephens and Mrs.
Arson are lifelong friends, hav-
ing been brought UP together In