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Show lid Age Imim i Triplits Is Held Three Men Travel Thousands of Miles . to Celebrato Fifty-Seventh Birthday. NORTH ADAMS, Mass., Aug. 30.-The famous Aldrlch triplets, tho oldest In tha country, celebrated here the iifty-seventh anniversary of their birth. In order to be with their mother, who Is SO years old, the threo men traveled thousands of miles. Ambrose and Alfred came from their homes in Stockton, Cal., whilo Albert Al-bert came from Minneapolis. Tho .fourth surviving child of a family of eight, Mrs. Frank ITcllhnn of Charles City, Minn., also was present. Celebrated by Rig Dinner. Tho cclobratlon took the form of a big dinner, hundreds pf Invitations having been sent qut. Tho Methodist clergyman clergy-man of Stamford, Vt., presided, Mrs. Aldrlch being the oldest member of the Methodist church In tills vicinity. She has lived In the little village of Clarksburg Clarks-burg slx"ty-elght years, and on tho farm where the celebration look place today the triplets wero born. When Hie Civil war broko out Ambrose enlisted, being .then 17 years of ngo. He was a member of the Sixty-first Massachusetts Massa-chusetts regiment. Tho other two boys wero anxious to go to the front, but the fathor refused his consent Spent Day With Mother. Ambroso and Alfred went to Stockton in 1873, and did not see Albert again for thirty years. They held a reunion In Monterey threo years ago, and then planned on coming East to seo the mother this year. It is tho first tlmo all tho members of tho family have been together to-gether in thlrty-flvo years Tho father, who was S3 years of age, died six years ago. |