From the Ipswich Tribune

September 20, 1928 edition

Celebrate their Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary

Not a “companionate” but a companionable marriage has been the union of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Sloucm aged couple of Belle Township who celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary on Monday, September 17, 1928 on their farm ten miles northeast of Ipswich.

They celebrated the day with an “anniversary sale” selling at public auction all their household goods and farm equipment. Two weeks ago they sold their farm for $10,000 cash to Michael Fischer-the reward for forty-five years of hard la...