Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Becker, Christian B. - 1881

Real Estate Transactions.--
Samuel Grube will expose at public sale, on Friday, October 14, 1882, a lot of ground in New Haven, with improvements; also a tract of land consisting of 3 ½ acres, adjoining lands of J. L. Stehman, Christian B. Becker and Peter Wallason.
~ The Lititz Record, 07-Oct-1881, Page 3, Column 2


A Pleasant Event.--
Mr. Christian B. Becker welcomed to his home on Monday evening a number of old-time friends, who assembled in commemoration of the host’s fifty-ninth birthday.  These gatherings appeal to a deeper feeling, sound a profounder depth of the heart than the merry, careless meetings of the young.

When they who are beyond the meridian of life congregate around the hearthstone, there is an absence of that frivolity that marks the intercourse of them to whom the problem of existence, the responsibility of life is yet an unsealed volume, or as the scintillations of the auroral curtain, flickering in the distant horizon, an arch spanning the “to come” of expanding intellect-roseate, inexplicable.

The interchange of thought between them who have traversed the pathway of life together is full of touching reminiscences and heart-felt communion.  Such an occasion was that of Monday evening, and not one who was privileged to be present but wishes that Old Father Time would stay the dropping of the sands and spare their host until another fifty-nine pages of his life history shall have been spread upon the minutes of the recording angel.
~ The Lititz Record, 07-Oct-1881, Page 3, Column 3

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