| Show SWEET SEVENTEEN although born bora in the year 1828 and although beloved by numerous grandchildren and three or four children sister emmeline Emmel lne B wells of this city celebrates today her seventeenth birthday strange as this state slate ment may seem it is still less leas unusual than the be fact act that eight years must elapse before she will have another birthday anniversary that she cao can truly call her own abe extra day 0 in o leap lea year and the astronomical becu known as the procession precession or of the equinones equinoxes es being responsible for the whole paradox anti and contusion confusion but whether her birthdays be b few or many as birthdays commonly go the ee ers teemed lady Is known and loved by many thousands in these valleys 0 the mountains and enjoys a high place pace in the regard of leaders of tbt sex la in this country and abroad her active lile llie has been filled with good deeds arid and self belf sacrifice has always teen been its not n ot distinguish distinguishing in 9 trait at A the editor of the he homans womans Fx exponent she way may be appropriately regarded as oue one of the journalistic craft and as the possessor of a superior poetic fiock she will occupy a perhaps still abre enduring place in local literature the NEWS extends to her a fraternal greet and hopes she may live to see eee at ae least her twentieth birthday |
