SILVER WEDDING
Mr and Mrs Thomas Moulding, with Their Friends, Celebrate the Argentiferous* Event
A quarter of a century of harmonious and undivided wedded life in these marital-shortening days of divorce and abbreviated lives is becoming such a rare thing that the celebration of such an event becames interesting as a relic of the older time still living. Such a celebration occurred last evening in which the chief parties are not only old settlers and old in married happiness, but a couple who became such in Chicago twenty-five years ago, when Chicago was only a town - a sort of Kansas City or Denver - a very long way out West at that time. The parties in question are Mr and Mrs Thomas Moulding who last evening completed the twenty-fifth anniversary of their wedding in this city, and that it had been a happy wedded life Mr Moulding, in the course of a little speech in response to another one of congratulation, elequently and forcibly intimated by saying that if others had been like unto them there would be no need for divorce laws. The little speech referred to as the prompter of this remark was one made by Mr Price Miller, who had been chosen by the ladies to make a presentation speech, not because, as the ladies told him, they had less tongue than he had, but less check. The subject of the presentation speech was a handsome and costly
WATER SERVICE OF SILVER
engraved with the initial of the family name. It may be said that the parlours of the home of this family, which is located on the same block, at the corner of Southport Avenue and Dunning Street, in Lake View, where they have lived for twenty years, were crowded with the numerous friends of the family, many of whom are themselves old settlers and nearly all the balance, the production of the city of Chicago. The evening was pleasantly spent with the renewal of old times memories and the playing by Lyon's Orchestra of dear old time tunes - stories of the past themselves - interrupted only by the very acceptable interruption of a tasty repast. Among the guests present were the following:
Mr and Mrs Thomas Stagg, Mrs Catherine Gage, Mrs Thomas Good, Mr and Mrs Charles Moulding, of Blackberry; Mr and Mrs J White, of Blackberry; Mr John Moulding and Mr Frank Moulding, of Watertown, Wis; Mr and Mrs William Moulding, Mr and Mrs Price Miller, Mr and Mrs P Barker, Mr and Mrs Wm Hutton, Mr Hutton, Mr and Mrs Whittaker, Mr and Mrs John Bell, Miss Lottie Bell, Mrs E H Cannon, of Canada; Mr and Mrs John Rogerson, Mr Aapden Rogerson, Mr and Mrs Maydwell, of Hinsdale; Mr William Thompson, Mr Charles Thompson, Mr and Mrs Lyons, Misses Eva and Lottie Havland, the Misses Lydia and Etta Harland, Mr and Mrs Thomas Carter, and Miss Ada Job.
* Made up of or resembling silver