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Show COUPLE TO OBSERVE 50th WEDDING DAY Mr. and Mrs. Gomer W. Phillips, Phil-lips, highly respected and longtime long-time residents of this city, will be married fifty years on Monday, Mon-day, February 27. In their honor, the occasion of their golden wedding anniversary will be celebrated on Sunday, Feb- Jruary 26, with a banquet and program pro-gram given by their children for members of the immediate family Sunday noon, at the Legion room of Memorial hall. In the afternoon, after-noon, from 3 until 5 o'clock, an open house reception will be held to which friends and relatives are invited. Mr. Phillips was .born January 10, 1866, in Springville, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Jonah Phillips. He began blacksmithing when he was 13 years of age and has followed that occupation during his entire life tieing now Springville's oldest old-est blacksmith. Mrs. Maria E. Leah Phillips was born in Spanish Fork, September 6, 1866, a daughter of Charles W. and Dorothy Chism Leah. She spent her early life in that city. 'The couple were married in the Manti temple on February, 27, 1889, and have made their home in Springville since, taking active part in the upbuilding of the com-1 1...1.11..J; tli, cuuicii ann civic affairs. af-fairs. They are parents of ten children, child-ren, eight of whom' are living, Mrs. Ruth Lambson of Helper; Mrs. Alta Robertson of Crescent; Theo Phillips of Provo; Bill, Earl, Ernest, Louis and Tom Phillips of Springville. They also have 12 grandchildren. |