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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1910)
n i i. I f 1. n Iowa Pioneer and Wife, Fifty A... Gioege Outer Iehley -jsnd Wire HILE rostrum-perched alarmists rw are megaphoning the nation sonorous warnings of domestic peril, hurling yard after yard of statistics designed to prove that divorce Is increasing that ih,- Is a spirit of matrimonial restlessness ram pant In the lai)d and thnt marriage Is a failure, there cames by way of happy vari ation a golden wedding story from VII lisca, la which tendn to place the alarm let's wall In optimistic eclipse. Fifty years ago last Sunday, In ,W.vne( boro,. Pa., Oeorge Oliver Lemley and Miss Phoejfc Swan were married. Sjon after ward Ihey came to Iowa as pioneer build ers and they have lived there ever :?. Last Sunday their beautiful home In VII MSca was the scene of a happy conclave remarkable gathering of chlldien, grand fhlldren and great grandchildren-the oc casion being a celebration of the l.emiey's rolden wedding, with the family reunion U an incident thereto. This gathering sras remarkable in several ways, but per aps the most unusual feature of it is the Act that all of the descendants of Mr. Mid Mrs. Lemley were present . except ne. Miss Olenna Day, a grand laughter, who la a student. In New Yo:k Hty. It was Impossible for her to be pres ent, but sh sent a cheery letter Instead, xftd It was given prominence In the pro ceedings. Another phase that ranks as remarkable Is the fact that out of this Wge family of four generation, there has only been one death that exception ing a daughter-ln-law. the wife of taiear Lemley, an Omaha railroad, muiu. It Is 'not often that so largo a family as not, been visited by more than one leath. Moreover, it is not often that in a family reunion all but one are present. . r wuver iemiey. looKing every inch i an). general and Infallible recipe for the ihe sturdy . Iowa pioneer, was born In pi-wervatloii -of vouth. In mv own case, Ireen county, Pennsylvania. November 12; however. 1 am Inclined to believe that rpg 1839, and Is therefore 71 years old. To ular habits, plenty of outdoor cxerclce and look at him, you would not Judse him to a disposition to never try over spilled milk Lb more than somewhere In. lata fiflUs. have been ruling factors In bringing me Into f To sea him move about, you would retract the seventies with good health in both body your, estimate and siie him up as being and mind. Tho same doubtless applies to somewhere In the early fifties, and espe- Mrs. Lemley. She has always been active, dally agile, at that. His hair Is only We have farmed a givut deal and there Unged with gray. Many a city teared was a multitude or work to be done, not man of 40 has more of gray hair and less only In the fields, but In and around the suppleness of limb that has this septua- house as well. She Is a corn vt house (enarlan. H has lived his life In the keeper and that means work, you know. pen, and perhaps that accounts for hN "Why, right now today, she can work all remarkable preservation of pnyIcal and around the majority of the younger gener Vient&l power. : ation of women. Some people say hard Mrs. Lemley was born In Green county, work hurts. I don't believe It. If I were Pennsylvania, too, but Just when well, she a doctor I would precrlbe hard work for declares It Is nobody's business, and that some of these sickly matrons of 35 and 40, In this year of 1910, as it has been through who have thus young in life, sat ydown, ; all th other years down the ages, it Is folded their hands and beckoned old age to not good form for woman to parade her come and get them. Mind you, now, I M. Like her husband, she Is also quite do not mean that woman should do man's mtoung for a golden wedding, and the grace- t ful and easy manner in which she pre- aided over the Lemley table at the b!g gulden wedding feast, was the wonder of Jpeclarors. And cook! It is a part of Villlsca's un- Written history that the Lemley kitchen haa no equal in southern loaa, 'all of which is fully attested by the bounteous banquet that came as a part of the Sun- day celebration. to go away to the springs to rest their and string beans cooked together. forming a nearby background. Kev. Mr. "Grandpa and Grandma Lemley" nobody shattered nerves. Buh! Why elon't they "Mrs. Lemley and I are not the only pio- 11111 "Poke as follows: makes use of these titles except those who take exercise and quit stuffing themselves neers of Iowa who are young at seventy "Mr. and Mrs. Lemley, the difference be by blood are ao entitled, because Mr. and with impossible cookery that was never in- years. Hundreds of others are to be found tween today and fifty' years ago, is that lira. Lemley are not of the type to carry tended to be eaten? A good old hunk of many of them older than we in years, then It was a hope today It Is an exper well th neighborhood veneration thus lm- corn dodger Is to be preferred any time to and Just as young in appearance. Pioneer- ience. Then it was a venture today It is plied wher th terms "grandpa" and those new fangied takes three feet high Ing In Iowa was a serious occupation. We an accomplishment. Then you were look- Curious Romance of Kala-kt Templar. HE marriage In Chicago of Cas alus McDonald Barnes, former territorial governor of Okla homa and a prominent Knight Templar, to Mrs. Bertha Fornay, a wealthy ranch owner of Pro- N. - M., has followed a romance T gieion, that started two years ago, while Mr. JJarnei and a party of friends were on a hunting trip. Barnes and his party were shooting In the vicinity of th ranch, and shortly before they vwre ready to leave Mr. Barnes, was Injured. He was taken to th ranch house and. under the careful nursing of Mrs. Fornay, soon recuperated. Th dashing western widow completely won th ex fovernor's heart, and. while no marriage ngament existed when he left for home, th Interested parties had an agreement to meet In Chicago at the Knight Templar conclave. Mrs. Foniay came with th New Mexico delegation and Barnes with the Oklahoma party. They met, decided to be married at one, and the ceremony was performed at St. Mark's F.plscopal church, with only a taw friends of the bild as witnesses. Th Oklahoma Kulghts Templar heard of th marrlag and gav th former Okla homa executive a rousing reception at th Palmar house. Peaaltr fr Blabbta- on t'spid. Bcu he mad a statement before th school board of Foster tomnship, Fieeland, Pa., that pretty Wlnfred Morgan, th Oley Valley school teacher, devoted much of her Urn to writing lov lelleis and that h -am . r h-rr r r 1 i r 1 3 mm,i- i I I faptwywwll' " WMiai'IMta nwn WIMIMIIII ' AIM1WWIW 1 The. "I andma" are used by the public. 'Seventy years yuung." Is a phrase somewhat- hackneyed,' . yet in describing . the Lemley It Is so befitting that its u'e herein Is considered twclonahle. "To what do you attribute your remark able preservation?" a visitor asked Mr. Lemley. ( "1 hardly know how to answer that nues-;- tlotl ' ha rantlAri "fnr T iln nnt l,aliti-f t liura work. Neither do I have any patience with these sissy fellows who dry the dishes while their wles wat-h them. Let the men get out and hustle In men's sphere. Let the women work In women's sphere. Hut let both men and women take cure that they keep on working. "Nowadays yi,u hear young men and women tulklng about having neuresthenia and this, that and the other, and they have and Romantic Capers waa really tired lugging mail to and from Oley Valley school. Washington A. Warren, a rural delivery mall clerk, may lose his position and bo made the defendant In a f-'.OOO damage suit. Warren was one of a delegation who ap peared before the school board to protest asanst the ai p mitme-t of Mis Mo gan, on the ground that site wrote love letters dur ing school hours. Miss Morgan states that she knows her rights in the matter and has instructed her attorney to start action. She ay she is determined to stop blabbing un the part of mall clerks and teach Warren a lessm in postal regulations If It costs her a year's salary. Huatoa Maids and Marrlav.-. Mayor John F. Fitzgerald of Boston has come out with the statement that the Bos ton girls do not "cotton to the men of the Hub, and the one principal reason is that the women are vastly better educated than ire men and that In many case their sal aries far exceed those of the men who would mate with them. Mayor Fitzgerald says: "The fact that thei are so many women here, however, is not the reuon that there are so few marriages proportionately. Th trouble la that the women and men are not on a par mentally. "All th opportunity that a man has for an education is along profeaeiunul lines, so if he wants to be educated along buelnesv or trad lines he has no place In which to get his training. "We have armies of unemployed men on our streets, men who hav no trad aad TITR XTMEYS - FATHER .HOTHER , BROnEETRS AND ' v SEATED . 1TR. USD mS. LEMLEY STANDING - IETT TO KLGHT - JOHN" LEMLE i , liCS. MAX DAY ,HRi. SCI DIXY rXEjra"IKK.T7, XixER Iq-ortk 0etteratioit '1 u and with a lis . picture painted on the side. Bacor. is another good thing to eat bacon of Cupid who can not work because there seems to be no work for them. "More' facilities to train men for the actual woik of the day, so that when we tiave trained them, they may earn ade quate salaries. Is what Is needed. Then we will have a class of men who will appeal to the women, we are training In Boston today. "These girls have the opportunities of the nearby 'colleges, which train their students fi r some particular line of work. "These women ato obviously higher skilled than the untrained man who graduates from our schools unfitted to cope with any one individual phase of th city's Industry. "it is hard fur th woman of today to give up a good salaiy and better ex'pecta tions to divide a smaller salary with a man who in all human probability, will never get more. The girl of today wants as much to start with as her father had to end up with. She wants her servants and she wants a nice home. The model tenement, however, would prove a great benefit for those who desire attractive dwellings at a low price." t'uiiltl lllte Ulrla' flab. The Bachelor Girls' club of Greenville, Ind., is about to go to pieces because of persistent refuals to obey the bylaws and the payment of fines without any apparent care for cost, tha treasury now being so full of nickels that th surpiu la becoming a burden. The club fixes a fine of 5 cents on a mem ber If she receive the attentions of a young man, and some of the members hav paid, more than II in fines, and it is cur rently reported that on or two are ser TIIK OMAHA. SUNDAY HKK: AtV.rsT Years Married, Seventy Years Young r 7 A I THE LEMLEY .XftTIXIiY AND "VISITOR had to work to stay here. We had no time for foolishness, hence we never had neu rcsthenla, .or anyr.jJther .new tangled dis ease. We loweslans must die sometime, of course, the same as ail people every where, but as a rule, we die in our right minds. We do not chase ourselves to death." . When Mr.. Lemley first- lame to Iowa In : 18C8, he located In Taylor county, near riattevllle. There he spent his ploner-r days farming and stoik raising, in 1S88 after he had enco:npased fair measure of suc cess, he moved to Vllllsca, where in a pretty home on Fifth avenue, he is spend ing the evening of his l!f .-, bis wife of fifty years his constant' companion. Tho Lemly children, four In number, have long since married and moved to homes of their own elsewhere, so the cid pioneer's hsartli stone Is a quiet place. Rev. Enoch 11111, , pastor of the First Methodist church, Villisea, solemnized that golden wedding ceremony, which took place under a clump of beautiful trees on the Lemley lawn. ' "1 don't exactly want a regular marriage ceremony," said Mr. Lemley, "because it Is part . of . the ceremony to ask the groom: 'Do you take this woman for your lawful, wedded wife?'. Inasmuch as she haa already been by. my side these fifty years, it seems foolish -now for that question' to be propounded to me. Of. course, I'd take her. Why, right now, 1 would rut) a foot race for her or fight for her If need be." "It would seem a bit ridiculous now to ask you If you are willing to take her ugreed Rev. Hill, so It was decided tha nteaa of a regular ceremony, the minister jhould substitute a little Impromptu talk. With Mr. and Mrs. Lemley standing to gether under the trees, their children. grandchildren and great grandchildren iously considering marriage. The officers at a recent meeting offered a resolution to increase fines to 10 cents, but the resolution was voted down sfter a heated controversy In which only adjourn ment prevented hair pulling. The young ladles are in a majurity In the club and the spinsters are In a frenzy over the willful violations of the rults. Tons Httoata Mu trillion)'. The merchants of the ambitious Cape Cod town of Wareliam. Mass., desiring to in crease Its fame and population, present and prospective, offer extraordinary Induce ments to sweethearts to marry there. The merchants could offer no more, save to marry the ladles themselves, and the Mas sachusetts law against bigamy is strict. Of course certain conditions are attached to these geoarous propositions; the chief is that the married couple must reside there. Wareham is altruistic, but It does not pro pose to help to add to the population of Boston or any other Massachusetts town. It is stipulated, too, that the prospective bi lde and bridegroom must prove their g.od character; that he must be between 21 and 68 years of age, and she between 19 and 49. It will be seen that Dr. Osier and his the ories have a certain weight there. These are some of the marriage Induce ments offered b;' Wareham: A free wedding, Including marriage license and clergyman's services. Bass soloist to sing "I'm Glad I'm Mar ried" at the ceremony. Church deacons to pass th hat for a col lection for th wedded pair'a. benefit. Brasa band to play the wedding march and other approprlte music. . Bridal dinner. Bridal presents, mostly useful articles for furnishing a home, particularly the nursery, ifolor launch for the honeymoon trip. Steady employment for th bridegroom. f ! ) f: i N v. ' l I 21. 1910. 1 y .? t. V t ,- ' ' .r 7. : " DOOC H -v V 7 THE lSZ"VtiQCa.JEaLL OltEXimaptCaTIiOS, ftOTiTTOWEPDma CEEXXOOTC. J Ing" forward now you are in retrospect. "As you review the past fifty years, you have much for which to be thankful. To-, day you are gathered here with your chil dren unto the fourth generation, and such. i has been the God-given blessing that death haR no broken Into your Yanks. You can : truly say that the promise of God to his people: 'I will bless thee and keep thee In all the way thou shalt go,' has been ful filled in your life. I can think of nothing more fitting for this occasion ( than a quo tation from one of our poets, which reads as follows: Our hearts are young as ever now. Though fifty years have gone. Since vows were made And words were said That of the twain made one. Employment for the bride every autumn at screening cranberries If sne dexlres It. Four physicians to give free services at Intervals. Lawyer to give free legal advice on any subject except divorce. Free shaves for the bridegroom, his clothes pressed without charge not by his wife but by a tailor. To further its purpose and to make the path to happiness even smoother, Wareham has established a wedding bureau, consist ing of Mrs. Minnie Bowles, a married man, a widower and a divorced man. They will consider applications of those yearning to be married from every point of experience, the wise city fathers consider. The first loving hearts to take aeitantago of this splendid opportunity will make the beat as one next Saturday night. -The ceremony will be performed In the street balcony of the town's biggest store, in full view of all Wareham. Very likely ther will be two weddings four hearts will beat as two next Saturday night. A llotlnur Pair. The old farmer stopped his scythe and unbent. Then he hailed his wife. "I thought 'Manda was goln' to help you with th' cookin' today?" he cried. " 'Manda's gone over to Sallle Baaselry's," was the ieply. "They're havlti' a garde.ii fete for Prlscllla Hinckley's friend from Tewksbury." She paused and looked around. "Wasn't Henry goln' to help you with th' mowing?" I "Henry's gone over to Tom Pitkin's to play golf with th' new minister." They looked at each other. "Two ailly old fools," muttered th farmer. ' "Yes, Abljah," the woman meekly agreed. And he went on with his lonely mowing and she returned to the quiet house with ber basket of eggs. Cleveland Plain Dealer. 1 a"' rr-rr .iur A-.. DOOOOC Our hearts are young as ever now, Though changes we have seen. For nujv the girls are women grown And all the boys are men. At Rev. the conclusion Hill offered a of his remarks, the prayer, which ended the ceremonial feature. Hearty congratu- lations from all present followed. The. direct descendants of Mr. and Mrs. Lemley, including wives of the sons and grandsons, numbered twenty-nine persons. The Lemley sons and daughters, four In number, are . as follows: Lazear Lemley, Omaha; John Lemley, Omaha; Mrs. Hctddy Flennlken, Mooresvllle, Mrs. May Day, Kansas Clt. f In. addition to the Immediate members of the family, many other relatives" and Enemy of the HE girl who must make her way I I in the world is warned against JL I many dangers. They are real dangers, easily seen. They are in no way disguised and they do lurk In the path of the business girl. But there are other dangers that are not so often spoken about. They are not so vital, to be ..tire, but they du work harm; and, worst nf all, they are insidious. A girl is not apt to recognize their hsrmfulness until they have entered her life and begun to work their mischief. One of these insidious enemies is a cer tain carelessness or mauner that gradually wears off the fine edge of go-d breeding. Many a girl of refined and high ideals has unconsciously acquired, after a few years of buslneas life, a flippancy, or boldness of manner that repels the very people she Is anxious to know and associate with, and for whom she would really make an en joyable and Interesting companion if they knew the real girl under the misleading manner. She thus cuts Herself off from the associations she lungs for, pi-maps from much happinens. She must finally live her life upon a lower level. Often she accounts for this by ascribing it to the fact that she works. She thinks bitterly that If she were not earning her living, she might have the friends and association she desires. But this Is not the root of the troupe. It Is In herself, and the rad part of It Is that she does not know it. Th girl who knocks around . i . world earning her living, having a hard time per- v ' ; r . t O -,7ffWyiF-nirJwijtw.in'W Si ZpOOC " -; friends were present. A majority 'of therrt came Saturday. Many of them remained urw til Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Nat urally, a big house Is needed for such a congregation'. The Lemley home is roomy, but its capacity was overtaxed. Then what? Kn stent thing In'the world. Th younger generations of Imleys, true to the 'open air philosophy of their grand father, found beds In the ample hay mow, which- is a part of the big red barn to th rear of the house, and when the hay mow was filled so full there could be no mora Lemley s admitted, somebody remembered there was a tent In storage around th place. Up went the tent. Bo, between house, haymow and tent, all of th Lera leys were provided with sleeping quar tera. Business Girl haps to maka both ends meet, . will hear much slang and bold familiar speech, many ewmmon or uncultured forma of x presHlon. She should keep strict watch upon herseli that she does not slip Into any of these. If she acquires them, th person who hears her speech for fho first Urn Will . not know but that this has always bean her language, and will pat her in a class) where she doe not belong. There Is much hurrying and pushing and Jostling in buslnens, a lack of the "excuse, me" and "I beg your pardon" of refine life. But a girl, if she wants to hold on to the best In life, should not let go of th little refined things of manner that mark her a lady in the old-fashioned sens of th word. The best way to know i on has drifted out of one's course Is to go back. If pos-i slble, after several years of business lif,, to the atmosphere and environment pre ceding the business exprlenca, A fw day with these old friends and associations will quickly tell th girl anxious to know If ah Is losing any precious trait of womanlN urss. If her manner has becom flippant or hard, her sixn-ch careless, these delinquent cles will stand out as black against whit against the background of former associa tions. It Is a good teyt. and the girl who does not want to sink gradually to a lower plane of lmng should try It. Th girl Who is really ctltured and refined will find her self shut out from the associations she de sires if she lets business life gloss ber man ners with coarseness, loudness and cara Ussness either of speech or deportments. Si Leuls Tlm,