Show MILL CANYON mr editor CLIPPER please permit me through your calums to thank those who projected the surprise on me on my fiftieth birthday for the courtesy shown to me I 1 was celebrating it hanging banging on the end of a handle when my dear old father and mother put in their appearance and also sister ann and esther sessions and a portion of their posterity too numerous to mention also my hros bros sylvanus sessions orson sessions and wife my uncle david sessions with his daughter 0 olive corbridge M mrs maria telford mrs henry garett mr and mrs win will ashdown and to give due credit to arand Mrs Walter scott who were scarcely of their feet during the lay day waiting n upon all at 1230 dinner was announced which was spread upon a tab e c m made ade of boards that borrowed from an old house after duncha majority repaired to the mines about one halt mile off and to see the ladies as anxious as the gents to climb the tha hills through he brush and then return aown down the t 1 steep hills wits was laughable 0 which to took look at the aprons would make any one think an st wind had whipped them over a ologa line after re returning 0 ice cream was served which anted as a brace up tip for the warm warin weather alt hougla it wo would aid not boil water for tiia tea I 1 had to cut wood and built fires for domestic purposes ies dinner was served pm in to say the least etwas it was an enjoyable time when they began to disperse it made me think I 1 had not been for goten gotell C L I 1 81 SESSIONS |