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Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Van Deusen. A golden wedding anniversary was celebrated in Derby a few days ago for two of the earliest settlers of Sedgwick county. Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Van Deusen of that place. Four years after they were married at Greencastle, Johnson county ...

Machias. Though their childhood i homes were not more than thirty i-o fr- i FA1'?S ai-art, they did not meet until aao to. two or me earnest settlers m lowa Jn his boyhood Mr Van , Mr. and Mrs. I Deusen spent several years at Oil N. S. Van Deusen of that place, i City. Pa., just at the 'timp of the Four years after they were married ! first big oil excitement this nation . Johnson county, ' ever knew, and his stories of what Iowa, on March 10. 1867. they located j happened there during that time on a claim near the present town off make the present oil field stories Rose Hill, twenty miles southeast i seem tame. J of Wichita, where they lived for Mr. Van Deusen has two nieces about twenty-five years. Since that , living near Derbv. Mrs. Maude Wake time they have lived in Derby, where : and Mrs. Etta Brown. One sister Mr. Van Deusen has ben engaged ; lives at Kosmopolis, Wash., the only "in business, and where they have a j near relative. Mrs. Van Deusen is a home noted for the number and sister of Mrs. Edward Sloat of Der-varietv of fruits and flowers they j by and of H. A. Moon, who recently produce every year. j left his farm home near Rose Hill Both Mr. and Mrs. Van Deusen are to go to Mysham Mont. She also natives of New York state. Mr. Van ' has a brother living in Black in Densen was born at Ellington and Black Duck, Minn. Mrs. Van Deusen, whose maiden j Owing to sickness the anniversary name was Miss Rosetta Moon, at i was celebrated only informally.

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