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Show Golden Wedding Celebrated By Mr. and Mrs. Abel Mr. and Mrs. George E. Abel celebrated cele-brated their Golden Wedding anniversary anni-versary Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Abel are well known by the people of this community for their willingness to be of service whenever the opportunity opportu-nity arrives. Mrs. Abel is also known for her literary work. A family dinner was served at the home at six o'clock, places being laid for sixty guests. This number included in-cluded the seven living children and thirty-eight of the forty-five living grandchildren. It was a time of rejoicing arid of renewing the bonds of love and good will by the members mem-bers of this splendid family. At 8 p. m. a program and dance was given in the high school gymnasium gym-nasium with G. Edward Abel in charge. The program consisted of musical, dance and reading selections selec-tions by the grandchildren, a tribute, tri-bute, written by Mrs. Hoddak, was read by Mrs. Serena Vance and talks given by President S. L. Chipman, John R. Hindley and John Hunter. About 200 friends called during the evening to add their best wishes to the many expressions already given. o |