Show SURPRISE AND FAREWELL PARTY george E bench waa was the bent of a genuine surprise party last saturday night about eight clock while he be wag enjo enjoying ing him hill adelfin belf in the tile boehni of hie ills fol family lilly ca t ne tie trooping in lit a 1 large number if of lite hi id friends carrying baskets laden with everything that goes to L ake like a hungry crowd very happy the ladled soon had the laro lara din ing tables set to accommodate forty for y or more and a grond grand was indulged in the old folks had a truly merry time ove over thu times of thirty and fart forty y yeara years ago and indulging in songs and recitations and speech making the tile occasion which called forth thia this surprise was tile departure of air bir bench on a mis inis sion to a foreign land und anti the hearty well wishes spoken by thise truo old friends will long be filid by him in sweet we h had a d th the a pleasure plea aure of being one ono of th the party of old people and we never enjoyed ourselves oure elvea more I 1 in ll 11 our whole life wednesday evening tho the battle people were ore invited gnats of mr and mra mrs bunch bench and a repetition of the above merry ti ano 1 ina wai had hall while the grief at dirting with family and friends fulls fail 4 heavily on oil mr hr bench yet thia this hearty fu farewell rowell gathering will bo be a of much consolation to linn him while laboring on oil eoll soil the persona persons present were alex tennant and wife win luko and wife N W anderson and wife jamea jar lies hoggan and wife divid shand and wife P 11 anderson and wife ezra and wife robert johnson an and wife aaron squires and wife J II 11 carpenter and wife W J kilpeck and W wife f will tuttle and anti wife avanah Aza riall tuttle Tutt leand and wife john L bench and wife kate brown mra george Georg scott eScott mra mrs D crawford mrs Mar martena teria bench mrs ret 31 maylett aylett mrs ann barton ard elizabeth ba AO smyth 0 the sarah and belle B barton arton clara and minerva munk vinnie hall bertha kenner marion tn T ti nant vant maria horton II orton the 11 8 S kerr herr gustave J kroeper kroeger L R anderson Anu erson L A lauber and geo scott |