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Show CENTENARIAN AS BEST MAN AT A WEDDING ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, April 11 Joseph Fields Merris of Belford. N. J wlU be 100 yeara old oa April 25th, and will act as the best man at the wedding of Miss Annie E. Maxey of New. Bedford, Mass., to his grandson, . Fred M. Morris of Belford. The ceremony will be performed per-formed in the Belford Methodist Episcopal Episco-pal church at S p. m. Maj. Joseph Shepherd, a Salvation Army officer of Newark, aged K. will tie the knot A reception will be held in the Salvation Sal-vation Army hall after the wedding. Fred Morris said that there will be no Invitations issued, that an -admission of 10 cents win be charged for the benefit of the Salvation Army work. Morris organised organ-ised the army at Belford last April, and says, that he has had one hundred converts con-verts since, and. has the. hall crowded every Sunday afternoon. Miss Maxey, the coming bride, is a Salvation Sal-vation Army lassie, who has been stationed sta-tioned at Perth Amboy. 8he occasionally visited the Belford outpost and helped in the serviaem. It was in the army work that the two met. Mr. and Mrs. Morris will live at Belford after their marriage, and continue In Salvation Army work. Joseph Morris, the best man. will be 100 years old that day. He la wondering who will be the bridesman. Mr. Morris was married twice. He has a son by his first wife living. He Is William W. Morrla of No.- 61 Leslie Place, Newark, 73 years old. and a grandfather,' making 'T'ncle Josie ' a great-grandfather. |