Eureka Reporter | 1904-02-12 | Page 4 | Mother of Twins at Sixty

1 MOTHER OF TWINS AT SIXTY aged farmer and wife proud of new year s present A new year a present for charles hitter ritter an aged farmer of bristol pike and Pen lane was a fine pair of boys who will be named joseph and james as soon as preparations tor for a christening celebration can be com plated says a dispatch from pitts burg pa the boys have three brothers but they will never have them for play mates jr the eldest is 33 years old and albert the young est of the three la Is only ten years his junior mr air ritter who Is 70 years old and but ten years older than bla his wife came to this country from his native town in saxony in 1850 for the last forty years he has been engaged in farming in the northeastern section of this county his ills wife Is also of german birth having come to this city from cassel in hesse nine children have blessed their union mrs airs ritter does not look more than 40 years of age although she Is 60 the twins are healthy and strong