Oldest Couple In Ann Arbor

The oldest couple in Ann Arbor celebrated their sixty-first anniversary on All Saints' day. Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Anderson were surprised at their home, 632 S. Ingalls street, o Saturday afternoon by an unusual number of callers, whom they supposed had "dropped in" simply to congratulate them. But invitations had been sent out by Mr. and Mrs. Anderson's daughter and reception was held from 2 to 5. When Mrs. Anderson realized the surprise, she was a girl again, making merry with merriest. The sixty-one years rolled away ans she was a bride of twenty, telling how her young lover of twenty-one came and wooed.

Mr. and Mrs. Anderson were married at Homer, Mich., in 1842. After the ceremony they moved on a farm two miles west Ypsilanti, where they lived for thirty-nine years. For twenty-two years they have been residents of Ann Arbor. Sixty-four years ago Mr. Anderson taught school in Ann Arbor and remembers when the University campus was merely a big wheat field and when sidewalks were unknown. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have living five children, all of whom are over fifty years old--Luther Anderson of Lansing, Mrs. William Foster of Scio, Mrs. S. Ford of Chicago, Mrs. E. D. Waterman of Salt Lake City, Utah. and Mrs. Frank Ludden, of Ann Arbor. All of these were present at the reception but the son. There are nineteen grandchildren, many of whom were there with joy and congratulations,

Beautiful gifts were brought in remembrance, among which was a mammoth bunch of red carnation, Mr. Anderson's favorite color, and college colors which he loves, represented by yellow chrysanthemums tied with broad blue ribbons.

Refreshments were served, the cups went around, the guests filed out, leaving two happy people giving thanks for the years that had been.