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Show A Itoyal Fat. One of the private dining rooms in the Hotel Templeton was the scene of much pleasure last evening. The president presi-dent and employees of the Co-operative Wagon & Machine Co. had arranged a complimentary farewell dinner to Joshua F. Grant who has been manager mana-ger of that institutio.a for many years. At the '.hour,., of seven some thirty gentlemen, employess and officers of , the, 0. W. & M. Co. seated themselves for dinner, and the places of honor were left for the president presi-dent and his two brothers, "Josh" and "F'red." Tho latter gentleman assuming assum-ing the responsibility of bringing "Josh" to the dining room without his attention being drawn to the surprise in store; that this was done successfully, success-fully, any one acquainted with the jovial manager of the Grant Bros. Transfer company will not doubt; and the surprise was perfect. A feast of ten courses had been prepared by the chef of the Templeton, who may be assured as-sured his art!1 was fully appreciated. Shortly after 9 p. m. and at the close of the feast it was suggested that the diners retire to one of the Templeton farlors for a social chat over some fine lavanas; and here occurred the surprise sur-prise of the evening; an elegant solid silver service of twelve pieces, appropriately appro-priately engraved, and also a check of $100. 00 was presented to Joshua F. Grant, accompanied by a nicely worded testimonial signed by all the boys. The same was read by Sam Peterson, jr., the oldest employee of the company. Until nearly lip. m. the guests were entertained by speecnes by the recipient, Josh," from his brother, Ilebor J. (irant, president, and many others, all of which conveyed the fact that the ex-manager ex-manager is a very popular man, and that he will succeed in his new field of labor. "Insurance;" fully as well as he has done in the one he leaves is an assured as-sured fact, for most of the gentlemen present were anxious that he should write them up on the spot for a policy in the home life of Utah. It is only-proper only-proper to state here that the speech of the evening is due to "GritT" the stenographer, sten-ographer, for while the others were good, they took second place. That Sir. Joshua F. Grant was pleased beyond be-yond measure at the tokens of recognition recogni-tion shown him goes without saying. There is a warm spot in the hearts of the bovs for "Josh." Thanks are tendered ten-dered Ir. Alouzo Young, manager of the Templeton, for the' manner in which the elegant spread was served. |