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Show Some Items of Personal Interest George W.Larsen, our brother-in-law, and his good wife and large family, celebrated his 70h birthday Sunday at Liberty Park. Eight of the ten children child-ren they have reared were present, pre-sent, the other two being deceased. de-ceased. There were 21 grand-chi'dren grand-chi'dren and one great grandchild. grand-child. Music, songs, games and sociability and a big chicken chick-en dinner made up a very pleasant pleas-ant afternoon. Mr. Larsen is hale and hearty and expects many more happy returns of the day-Mrs. day-Mrs. A. M. Chritopherson, a widow, who. has been a good neighbor for a long time, has been as regular with payments aa possible. She supports herself her-self by rug making and other work and takes delight in being be-ing independent. Soren Frandsen a good neigh bor who is 82 and feeling fairly well, is always on the dot with his subscription. He likes the paper and r.ads it. He is a devout de-vout Townsendite and believes the pension plau would save the country. At first the opposition op-position said it would bankrupt the eountry to pay out 6 billion bil-lion dollars a year for pensions but it doetn't seem to hurl the rountry to pay out 12 billion a year for defense This refutes t h p. -ug urn e n t, pa y s , M iJFx arid-sen, arid-sen, and his ideas are very good ones. George Marchant, friend and neighbor all the time since the year one, was in during the week and was feeling right well He is a Democrat in principle and has done a great deal of good work for the party and will always be found working for its sbecess. We are of the opinion that he should be re membered by leaders at the capital building and given something som-ething worthwhile. There was no is ue of this paper last week Many were sorely dissa pointed. But our office was heme cleaned and reno ated and things wee in such a shape that we just couldn't work. Wp trust this will l ot happen Rrain. |