Cratsenberg, 45th Wedding Anniversary 1896

CRATSENBERG

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 6/14/2021 at 19:37:58

Source: Decorah Republican Apr. 9, 1896 P 10 C 2

For once, anyway, in his life Cratsenberg has been caught where he couldn’t say anything. March 25th was the forty-fifth anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Cratsenberg’s marriage and sixty-two of their friends thought it no less than fit and proper that they should not be allowed to forget the fact that they had journeyed along life’s pathway so long. Accordingly on Tuesday evening, this week, they met at the residence of F. C. Schenck and marched to the house in a body. Mr. Cratsenberg had not come home from the store, consequently he was somewhat alarmed when a telephone message from his wife said someone was trying to get into the house. Now those who know “Cratsey” intimately will aver that he was never known before to attempt to make the journey homeward even on a moonlight night without a lantern. This time was the exception. He started pell-mell, on the run, and in his excitement fell down twice before he finally burst through the door of his home to find that it had surely been broken into by the most genial and friendly lot of housebreakers one could imagine. He was too surprised to talk, something utterly foreign to his nature. A very jolly evening was spent, and the visitors left a handsome tea set as a slight token of their esteem for Mr. and Mrs. Cratsenberg.