Inter-Mountain Republican | 1907-06-03 | Page 2 | Golden Wedding of Sweden's Monarchs

GOLDEN WEDDING OF SWEDEN'S MONARCHS Celebration of Event to Take Form of Money Gifts June JUlie King Oscar Olcar and Queen Sophia will wilt celebrate their theil golden solden wedding next Thursday June Juno G C. C From tomorrow until after the time anniversary day ay the he as aged cd monarch will wilt resume the o of government which have been for sometime sometime some time Ime past put In the hands han of or the tho crown prince Prince rince The Time king Is in fraIl Crall health to toUs his Us advanced ancell age an and Immediately after the thc celebration he lie will again resign the thc executive power to his bis son and heir hell It Ison Ison is ison on account of or the feeble condition of or the king king- that tho the festivities in honor of hi his hi golden wedding be of a mod I fie character There will b bo be a u. number of or royal roal visitors front from rom abroad time the Duke an and Duchess Duche of Connaught representing Kin King Edward and Queen Alexandra lra Denmark will wIli be ba represented by the king and queen tho the latter a niece of or King O Oscar car being the only child of or his eldest brother an and pr predecessor on out tho the throne The Time popular celebration of or the lie event ent rare in imi the time history hEster of or royal roal matrimonial alliances Is taking time the form of or tho time subscription sub sub- of a ml large Jarge sum suet of or mone money which will wilt be devoted b by time the wish of tho the l ing ingLI nS' nS LI to a fund for Cor enabling the time poor to obtain admission to the Uie for consumptives consumptives tives lI founded ten years years' ears ago ao on th time the twenty fifth anniversary of King Oscars Oscar's with mone money then subscribed b by the time nation and handed over to him The king and queen were married on June 6 6 IB 1807 1 at Wiesbaden the time queen being be be- eIng e- e ing lug a daughter of or the time sovereign o Duke William I a of or Nassau whose vast ast wealth was derived from rom time tho public gambling tables which flourished In his hU capital Wiesbaden and enabled him to tu give her hera herl f 1 l a big dowry