This was just sent to me... it is a HOOT!! Stay with it, it is well worth reading... I laughed so hard that I cried!! Lanita Linn County Daily Budget The Golden Wedding of Mr. and Mrs.John Edward Pankey was celebrated in the Woodman of the World Hall, Brookfield, Missouri, Wednesday afternoon, February 3, 1926, from 2 to 5 o'clock. The anniversary had been looked forward to and prepared for in a most elaborate way by their sons and daughters, special invitations having been sent out to relatives and friends to come and enjoy the occasion with them. The decorations were approperately selected and tastefully placed. The refreshments were elaborate and delicious, and served with a courtesy with which only trained minds and hands can do. Every guest was made welcome and to feel that they were in a homelike place just such home-likeness as large and well trained Missouri Families can provide. The fireside shines not so brightly to modern folk and fashion, who through the rush of business, civic and social like, are apparently compelled to spend so much of their life outside of the home, as it did to the old time folks who, with their children, grew up by the family fireplaces. Such social events as that enjoyed by the Pankeys, relatives and friends yesterday are the high peaks in the life of the best people, and each link added to the chain gives strentgh and beauty like the beauties of mountain scenery, the waving grain in the field, and life giving fragrance of flowers in the garden; they will be long remembered and cherished. The kinfolks are the Pankey, Hall, Bond, Dickinson, Ramsey, Groetecke, Myers and Barber families of Linn county, Brookfield, and vicinity, and the Barton and Bryan families from other states. Old time neighbors in Yellow Creek township were also present. The eight children and their families were present, the former being Clarence, north of St. Catherine: W. H. of Cheyenne, Oklahoma; Mrs. Lee Bond, Riley, Brookfield; Ray, of Kewange? Illinois;; Elmer F. and Mrs. J.L. Hall, and Alonzo of Brookfield. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dickinson of Chandler, Oklahoma; Barton Bryan of Kingman, Kansas, sister and brother of the "bride" were present, as well as Ray Hall and family of Stewartsville and Craig Ramsey of Fredonia, Kansas. Captain Barton R. Bryan, father of Mrs. J.R. Ramsey and Mrs. J.E. Pankey of Brookfield, and Mrs. Peter Dickinson of Chandler, Oklahoma, and Alexander Bryan of Chautauqua Springs, Kansas, Captain Bryan was second cousin of Wm. Jennings Bryan. Barton was captain of the home guards, a man well known in Linn county. He celebrated his 50th anniversary while living with Mrs. Dickinson in Chandler. Mrs. Ramsey and Mrs. Dickinson and Ellen Bryan all celebrated their 50th anniversary and now Mr. and Mrs. Pankey are delighted with the pleasures of the day and are still enjoying their life with their eight children and eleven grandchildren all in good health. If the women were all like the Bryan women the courts would have no divorce cases. They have all raised large families and have raised them in honor and are all doing well. Mr. J. K. Pankey was born in Lineson??? in 1853, has lived in Linn county all his life with the exception of three years in the state of Nevada. Has told the truth part of the time and paid his bills all the time. Has one sister living named Laura L. Brownlee. Their father died in Linneus??? in 1858, their mother died in 1868. These people are all good workers and are always full of fun. They have all been hard workers and all have made the ???? If you think that any of them have been caught begging-bread? There is surely something wrong with your mind or with your head.