NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
MAGNOLIA’S GOLDEN WEDDING. 
Elbridge G. Foster and Amelia Adams Foster Married fifty years, 
Receive 
Friends at the Women’s Clubhouse. 
Mr. and Mrs. Elbridge G. Foster 
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their 
wedding in the Women’s Clubhouse, 
Thursday, Dec. 31st. Although people 
seldom die in Magnolia, it is not often 
that the little town has a golden wedding 
to celebrate. Moreover, Mr. and Mrs. 
Foster, are known and loved by all. 
Accordingly it was with right good will 
that the village cooperated with the 
Foster children in doing honor to the 
occasion. 
The clubhouse was beautiful with 
evergreen and laurel, the decoration 
being in charge of Mrs. H. C. Foster. 
Colored incandescent lights arranged by 
Oscar Story shone out here and there 
through the green. 
The afternoon reception was from 
three until five. The sons, Benjamin 
J. Foster, Harry C. Foster and Ed- 
ward S. Foster acted as ushers and 
presented the arriving guests to the happy 
couple that stood in the corner against 
the background of fr. The three 
daughters-in-law flitted about serving re- 
freshments and entertaining the guests. 
The grandchildren, Frances and Ed- 
ward, jr., helped entertain, too, and 
added a great deal to the joyousness of 
the scene. 
Music was dispensed in the afternoon 
by a part of Sewall’s orchestra. De- 
licious refreshments were served, Mrs. 
Fred S. Lycett presiding over the fruit 
punch, Miss Martha Wonson and Miss 
Alice Story over the ice cream and cake, 
and Mrs. E. S. Foster and Mrs. Benj. J. 
Foster over the coffee. 
Many guests were present from out of 
town, friends of long standing. Among 
them were Mr. and Mrs. Benj. Ingalls, 
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ingalls, and Mrs. 
Dr. W. B. Chase, of Swampscott, all 
of whom had been present at the silver 
wedding twenty-five years previous; 
Mrs. Redfern also of Swampscott, Mr. 
and Mrs. Jesse Knowlton of Chelsea, 
and William Adams, teacher of 
drawing at Groton and St. Mark’s. 
One of the noteworthy features of the 
celebration was the reading of two orig- 
inal poems written by Mrs. Chase. 
One of them had been composed twenty- 
five years before for the Fosters’ silver 
wedding anniversary which was cele- 
brated in Swampscott where the couple 
then resided. The other was composed 
for this occasion and was read by Mrs. 
Chase herself. 
The evening reception began at eight 
o’ clock and was largely attended. ‘The 
music in the evening was by the Perkins 
Institute orchestra which rendered a con- 
cert program that was cordially ap- 
plauded. ‘The anniversary poems were 
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read again and were very well received, 
Mrs. Chase being congratulated warmly 
on her two productions. 
At ten o'clock the orchestra from 
Perkins Institute took the train for Bos- 
ton and Chane’s orchestra took the Hoor 
playing as their frst number a Virginia 
Reel in which Mrs. Elbridge Foster par- 
ticipated with her son Harry as_ partner 
and Mr. A. J. Rowe proved himself the 
youngest and gayest man present, despite 
his seventy-eight years. Other dances fol- 
lowed and thus the old year was ushered 
out merrily and the New Year as merrily 
received, most of the guests remaining 
until 1909 had begun. By a pleasant 
combination of circumstances it then be- 
came in order to congratulate Mr. and 
Mrs. H. C. Foster on the completion of 
eighteen years of married happiness, 
their wedding having taken place on Jan. 
fst, 1391; 
Elbridge Foster was born in Essex, 
September 12, 1828, being now in his 
8ist year. ‘The early years of his life he 
spent in his ,native town and followed 
the fisheries. While still a youne man 
he moved to Swampscott where he en- 
gaged in the grocery business. He 
served on'the Swampscott board of se- 
lectmen for three years during the war. 
He has lived in Magnolia most of the 
time since and for many years was night 
watchman at the Oceanside hotel, ter- 
minating his service there only last year. 
Mrs. Foster was born in Magnolia, 
January 30, 1833, being the daughter of 
Benjamin and Amelia (Pulcifer) Adams. 
For several years she kept a little store 
of fancy goods in Magnolia, selling it to 
Mrs. Lafayette Hunt five years ago. 
Mr. and Mrs. Foster were married at 
Swampscott December 31, 1858, Rev. 
J. B. Clark, pastor of the Congregation- 
al church, peforming the ceremony. 
Four sons have been born to the 
couple, Benjamin J. Foster, captain of 
the Massachusetts fish and game com- 
mission boat Egret, Gerry Ingalls Foster, 
who resides in California, Ex-Senator 
Harry C. Foster, a resident of Magnolia, 
and Edward Stanley Foster, of Win- 
chester. 
They have six grandchildren, Alice 
Frances Foster and Edward Stanley 
Foster, jr., children of Mr. and Mrs. 
Edward S. Foster, and four children of 
Gerry Ingalls Foster of California. Of 
the entire family only Gerry and _ his 
children were absent. 
Beautiful golden gifts testified to the 
esteem in which the couple is held. 
Among these was a purse of eighty dol- 
lars in gold from the village people. 
There were other gold pieces, too, a 
hundred dollars more in all, and pretty 
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Jobbing Promptly Attended to 
MAGNOLIA 
Summer St. 
things too numerous to mention. 
(We had hoped to be able to publish 
the two poems referred to above in_ this 
issue, but up to the time of going to press 
we had been unable to secure copy of 
but one of them. We will probably 
publish them next week.—Ep. ) 
The condition of Archie Linnekin, 
one of the Magnolia railroad station 
force, who was so badly burned at his 
home in Gloucester, two weeks ago, is 
somewhat improved, but he is still at the 
Addison Gilbert hospital and suffers 
severely. An overturned lamp set fire 
to his clothing and burned him terribly. 
It has been necessary to allay his suffer- 
ings by the use of opiates. It is feared 
he may have inhaled some of the Hames, 
which naturally adds to the seriousness 
of the case. 
The progress on the Men’s Club 
house is rapid these days, the roof has 
been put on one section and the whole 
will soon be boarded in. 
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