Inter-Mountain Republican | 1908-10-11 | Page 13 | 150 Gather at Diamond Wedding.

0 Gather n of nC Diamond Wedding Lon London Oct OcL 10 A 10 A family party parly con- con descendants assembled at Booking Bocking near Essex Essex to celebrate cele cele- and brate time the diamond wc wedding of Mr Ir Mrs Samuel Chapman Chapman who are re- re I one eighty and seventy- seventy eight respectively years of or age The old coupie have had seventeen se children of ot whom ten now survive and In addition to celebration these there were present at the and sixty eighty grand children tion ton great rand Mr Chapman has haa treat treat- worked all hi his life as a farm laborer and hen al he ho married his earnings were wora ten shillings a week weck Shortly afterwards afterwards after after- wards wages fell feU to nine shillings a week In waGes rural Essex But It Is the coupie's cou cou- couples couples couple's ples pies proud boa boast t that they managed on en enthis week Income to bring up this small weekly 1 mal children without without with with- their family of seventeen wib- wib out any help from the parish j