Show HE WAS 76 A celebration in which all mill hill ward participated A festive scene was the party given in honor of the birthday of wm P reynolds Bey on saturday april apri al and 2nd st his homo in mill ward most of tho members of his hia family residing in the valley were pro present sent representing generations mr reynolds Bey has great granc hildron but they live in another part of the territory tho the tables were laden with good things but were soon relieved of their burden its as the healthy appetites of M U guests got in their work the afternoon was pawed passed in social intercourse and in tho the evening the family and man many y friends and neighbors gathered in tho the mill ward primary school house where an appropriate program was carried outland the first half of tho the night enlivened by tho the gay sound of dancing foot feet life is certainly worth living to those who at seventy six can look upon their children and grandchildren paying domago to their silvered hair to those to whom tho the kind hand of age ag has spared health of body and mind and the friends of their youth there is an immortality to be desired the example of duties dutiel bravely and nobly done rising like perpetual monuments in the hearts of conr posterity kings nitty may carve their achiel ments in granito granite yet they are cold and forgotten long before the memory of a kind deed dies from the heart of gratitude we join mr reynolds many friends in the hope that years may elapse before death draws tho the curtain of oblivion and he loaves leaves our sight eight i for tho the peace and calm of eternal rest |