The Slaithwaite Guardian and Colne Valley News. — 1904-07-15 (Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire, England)

WEDDING. —At St. James' Church, yesterday, there were joined in holy matrimony, Mr. Henry Bentley Seddon ,of Houley, late of Slaithwaite, son of the late Mr. Geo. Hy. Seddon, and Miss Nellie Wood, the only daughter of Mrs. Weed, of the Masonic Hail. The bride wore a claret travelling dress trimmed with bale lace and insertion, with hat ii mat- he done with lace and fruit. Site was given away by Mr. %Woo!. The bride's brother, Mr. George Wood, officiated am best man, and Mies Mabel Bamforth was the bridesmaid. The bridegroom's present to the bride was a gold watch and chain, and to the bridentnaid he gave a gold curb bracelet, and also presented each with a beautiful bonquet. The bride presented the bridegroom with a bamdenne gold ring. At tile church there was a goodly number of spectators to witeese the ceremony, which was performed by the Rev. H. 11. Rose, M.A., vicar. There was a large number of useful and valuable preemie, amongst which was A handsome one from the members of the Freemasons' Lodge, of which the bride's parents are the curators. The happy couple left at three o'clock for Colwyn Bay. OBITUAItY.—And so Allen Sykes is dead, the first of the old people to go at the ripe old age of 78, fostered and kept up by the healthy breezes of that high moorlend hill known to most as Blake Clough, overlooking the opening between Marsden and Slaithwaite, in the hollow of which runs the famous Colin,. on the banks of which ha e sprung up the great prosperi'y of th • for-famed Valley, so remarkable for it, gifted people— handsome women and strong men—not merely in wealth, but for those higher gifte which more decidedly mark what is best in a nation. Amid such scenes, and on the hill tope of a lovely valley dwelt the hardy sons of toil, of which Allen was one of three well known brothers, the two others being John and Edward, both living and respected, who in the early days made their living at the hand loems to be found in all the rottegem on hilleidee, and for which they hail to fetch their warps and welts from the fae•ories below—in some came miles away, for which they kept donkeys on their scattered farms on which a few cows were kept for the supply of milk and butter, the main article of diet. It was a sort of combination—not like many of the present day in which you are robbed of what you have by unscrupulous pro. feesional men, who have only one obj-ct in life, and that is to get all they can if it is not too hot Or too heavy. Be this as it may the hillsides men and women knew nothing et these latter day evils, but lived honest lives of frugal itilustry. Their wants were few and always provided for by the honest hard workers of that age, and of euch the three brothers were made, and lived their lives of frugal happiness and musical bliss. At an early period these young men developed great musical talent. end were the main stay of the once popular Shawfield Band. Edward, the leader on the elariontt • John on the cornopeon, and Allen on the opliecleide, then a leading irutrument in any band. Needle;; to say, they-kept up the above for a long number of years with varied degrees of success, for which de y &serve to be warmly remembered. May the remaining two long live to survive a deserving brother, who lived in peace with his dear wife an-I love to mankind, to a good long age without an enemy. A geed hueter, faithful sportsman. At one time the game-servant of the late Mr. John Horsfall, then of Dr. Dean, again of Dr. Clarke, and jest at the finish retained by Meesrs. Joseph and John E. Crowther, and Mr. Tom Rameden on their now enlarged and famous moors. at Bitekstones—unfortunatedy memorab'e for the dark double murder of last year, the mystery of which it is hoped that time may reveal, and the utipereunto brought to justice.  1,  I