Mr. and Mrs. Hallie Peavey, 730 13th St. Clarkston, will celebrate the beginning of their second 50 years at the Clarkston Moose Lodge with a potluck dinner at 1 p.m. for all their friends and family. The ceremony will begin at 2 p.m., followed by a film and tape presentation of scenes from through their life.

Peavey was born June 28, 1899, at Kellerton, Iowa. Mrs. Peavey, the former Lula Schlaser, was born at Kerwic, Iowa, on June 26, 1898. They attended Iowa schools until moving to Faulk, County, South Dakota, he in the fall in an eight wagon covered wagon train and she two years later by steam locomotive.

"I don't recall that the trip was so long," he remembers now, "but it was so slow with the horses and heavy loaded wagons."

Her trip was faster, not quite three days including layovers. "trains were all the thing then," she recalls. "You could get on a train anyplace."

It was South Dakota that brought them together and a South Dakota winter that put a hitch into their marriage plans. The Peaveys set out on Dec. 5, 1922, for Aberdeen, but freezing temperatures that day halted their Model T Ford and forced them to stop at farms along the way and thaw out. At 3 p.m. they were still 30 miles from Aberdeen, so they stopped at Ipswich for the ceremony.

"This was before the time of three day waiting periods and special licenses," Mrs. Peavey said. They obtained their license and were married the same day at the Congregational Church parsonage by the Rev. George E. Green and continued into Aberdeen for their honeymoon.

One month later, the Peaveys moved to North Dakota where they rented a farm near Braddock. They moved to Nezperce six years after that and leased a ranch near Six Mile Canyon. They farmed there until 1945 when they sold out and bought a small fruit acreage at Asotin. They retired completely when they moved to their present home at Clarkston in 1962.

Peavey claims most of his time now is spent ?just laying around? but his wife refutes this, saying he likes to tinker with engines and bicycles when his health will allow it. Her vegetable and flower garden occupy most of her free time. "Petunias, zinnias, roses, you name it. I like a good mixture," she said.

They have three children, two daughters, Mrs. Bonnie Jean Baum of Portland, Ore. and Mrs. Hallie June Diebel of Clarkston, and a son, V. Gary Peavey, Lewiston, and six grandchildren, all of whom will be in the wedding party in appropriate costumes of striped coats and flapper dresses.