| Golden Wedding.
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Wood celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage at Beacon Falls yesterday. Four generations sat down to the dinner table -- numbering in all thirty-three descendants -- nine children, twenty-one grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Ephraim Wood of Chicopee, Mass., read a brief history of the marriage, and Rev. W. R. Rodgers of the Summerfield mission, New Haven, and formerly pastor of the Methodist church in Beacon Falls, made a few appropriate remarks. Many valuable presents were made, including $70 in gold from friends in Beacon Falls and Westville, gold desert spoon from Mrs. H. M. Todd of Bethany, gold lined teapot from Mr. and Mrs. H. Haldwin of Pine's Bridge, hanging lamp from Waterbury friends, easy chair from the five daughters of the celebrating couple, and a satin lambrequin from Mrs. V. Buckingham. Three hundred people attended the anniversary and offered many congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Wood, who were dressed in the clothes they wore at their wedding fifty years ago. |