Klingle, 50th Wedding Anniversary 1912

KLINGLE

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 2/9/2020 at 16:29:32

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Mar. 12, 1912, P-FP, C-3

Golden Wedding Anniversary
One of the pretty events of the season occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Klingle, Monday, March 4th, 1912, when a number of their friends and neighbors gathered at their home to help celebrate their golden wedding anniversary.
Their children had planned, a quiet home coming, but on arriving home a few days previous to the event, learned that their neighbors were also getting ready to surprise this worthy couple.
Mr. and Mrs. Klingle moved to their present homestead in the spring of 1864. They were among the early pioneers and had none of the advantages of the present time, Ossian at that time being their nearest market. But in spite of disadvantages and the hardships of those early times they have by their industry made a pleasant home, and today rank among the most prosperous farmers of Howard county.
About ten a. m., the guests began to arrive with well filled baskets and all partook of a sumptuous wedding dinner. The dining room was beautifully decorated in gold and white.
As a slight token of the esteem in which Mr. and Mrs. Klingle are held by their relatives and friends, they were presented with a generous purse by their neighbors. The children and grandchildren presented Mr. Klingle with a handsome gold headed cane, and Mrs. Klingle with a beautiful garnet pin and gold ring. Among the tokens sent by absent friends were two gold trimmed Haviland china cups and saucers from Mr. and Mrs. James Gannon, of Cresco; a beautiful bunch of carnations from Wesley Swenson; a hand embroidered towel from Miss Edith Bullis, of Minneapolis. The afternoon and evening was spent in social chat, dancing and other merry making till the wee small hours, when all the guests departed for home wishing this estimable couple many more years of happy wedded life.