Have Lived Together For Half A Century

HAVE LIVED TOGETHER FOR HALF A CENTURY

The Gold Wedding Anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Rice

Many Friends Help to Make the Couple Merry at Their Home Monday Evening

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel G. Miller celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary Monday evening at their beautiful home on Prospect Street, by giving a reception to about fifty of their most intimate friends.

On Sunday, which was the actual anniversary, a family reunion and dinner was held and there were present Mr. and Mrs. Miller's children and their families - Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Eberbach, Miss Ora Miller, Vernon J. Miller, wife and two daughters, of Leland Stanford University, who have just returned from a Mediterranean trip.

The house was beautifully decorated with dainty vines and flowers and presented a most attractive appearance. The evening passed most pleasantly in telling interesting anecdotes of experiences in the past years, Mr. and Mrs. Miller proving themselves to be most excellent entertainers.

Mr. and Mrs. Miller are both hearty and hale and bid fair to be able to celebrate their diamond anniversary together.

Miss Harriet Romich and Samuel G. Miller were married near Wooster, O., in 1852, on July 20, that date being Mr. Miller's birthday. They went by wagon train to Indiana to a farm forty miles from Terre Haute, and in a little log house made their first home. This proved too wild a country to please either of them, so they moved back to Wooster at the end of a year and remained there for several years and then went to Ridgeberg, Ill., where Mr. Miller went into business.

Thirty years ago they moved to Ann Arbor and have lived here ever since. Mr. Miller for a long time carried on a mercantile business, but for the past few years has merely attended to the business pertaining to his own property.

The reception Monday evening would have been without a thing to mar the pleasures of either hosts or guests had it not been for some miscreants, who, having neither honesty nor respect for their elders, carried off the ice cream which was standing in a large tub of ice in the kitchen. They also helped themselves to a large cake, apparently wishing to have their feast complete in every particular. When the time came for serving the refreshments it was found that this portion of the menu was missing. Mr. Miller is so indignant over this pilfering that he says he will give twenty dollars to the person who catches the thieves.

However, the deficiency was not noticed by the guests for other goodies were supplied in place of the ice cream and everything passed off very pleasantly.