| Show i I J AGE OP Of 75 70 HE E Ef IET IT HIS AffiNITY f r iii TH NORWALK Conn Conti Sept 14 H.- H. 1 Gregory Gregor 78 years cars cars of age a prom prom- tanner farmer df dr Sll says it is isoo Roo oo 00 late lale to meet ones one's affinity and I. I fried rued d Thursday Mrs Nellie Willard of or New cw York City HI Ills HIa souls soul's Tin n admitted with the shadow hadow of or a blush that she ho was 7 72 Both III and Nellie had har h been ln married before but neith er r had children Gregory oo kno known n through h the country her hereabouts hereabouts as HI Iii admits that his hla I courtship was sas brief a brief a second confirma I tion lion of or tho tiro affinity Idea Mrs MacDonald MacDon- MacDon I ald aId was employed in a New lew York hospital hospital hos- hos I pital HI m met t her there took her to lo the theater popped por-ped the tho question Il and d they then were married next day b by Rev S. S 13 R. R PUrd Purdy In hh i liv ermine His Isis Is short hort straight aa as an arrow notwithstanding nearl nearly four tour score ecore years yearn hl his blue eyes snap nap and CV every r faculty Is IK alert Therefore he asks Ills his d relatives tK and anal nC neighbors why he marry He lie has thick gray e hair which aI apparently par defies 9 baldness You see sec said HI Nellie and I ml might ht have havo been old aId friends She's Sho's related to the Whitlock boys bos who lIvo up lip here and has been heen visitIng visit visit- 1 alt Ing Ins hereabouts for nigh on to thirty years but wo we never met I just ran down to New York York first first time In forty ort years years years-to to see my nephew in one of the hospitals when 1 I set sot eyes on Nellie Wo Yn talked for a n while and then n I asked her to go to the theater with me mc Wo We 0 never saw the show I h o orho Tho Tito girls were hopping around the stu stage o. o all dressed up In gilt glit te stuff sture buwe but we couldn't keep our eyes cs off rr each other I up and asked her r ho how shod shed like t tt to un up In the country sort sort of or Joke like you ou know Sho She said 1 she oho would and she came Mr MI Gregor Gregorys Gregory's s first wife wire with whom h he lived happily for sixty years cars died only three months a ago o. o an and his prompt selection of or a u. successor caused much talk In iii the community and the church In n both of which ho Is a pillar Ho owns a large Jarge farm arm and a cozy farm arm house with numerous barns and antI considerable considerable consid consid- erable crable live IIvo stock and real estate about the village It ma may have havo been natural therefore for his relatives to look on Mrs 19 Mn moro more as an Interloper than an affinity but there has lins been a marked change In this attitude for It hn has been Leen found that she Rho he has ban means InI In hh fact she returned to New York the this da day I after the wedding to straighten up her i business lm affairs affaire and largo large transfers of or mone money from New York to local banks have havo taken pl co each cach day singe Mr rr nu and Mrs Gregory Gregor spent the mornIng mornIng morn- morn Ing after the going around an and visiting neighbors Mr loIr Gregory has hus n stained re retained s- s not only all aU faculties but ph physical I vigor or as well He lie was waa an athlete of tho the village In his time lime and can turn a cartwheel cartwheel cart cart- wh wheel cl todo today as RS nimbly as al the most moat agile alIe urchin This he did on all the tho lawn of or Ills hla home horn a to show his friends ho he was eligible to tho the married state stal ant and not a subject for a home for tho the aged |
