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Show G IVES BIRTHDAY PARTY On last Saturday evening Commodore Commo-dore G. Hoyt of the North Tract gave a party in the Woodrow Hall to a house full of friends to celebrate cele-brate his birthday. When Mr. Hoyt was seven years old he had his first birthday; since that age, as his popularity with the ladies grew and grew, he has had a hundred and forty-seven more; and the other night he gave out a standing stand-ing Invitation to all his friends to gather yearly on the 16th, rain or shine or thirty-one more years. From any of these figures' you can take your choice as to his age. Nor could you tell from the number num-ber of candles on' his birthday cake. The party was very nice, the host genial, and a merry time had by all. The guests danced all evening, and as the lunch was served, the ladies presented him with a nice, all-over-frosted birthday cake, with one candle can-dle on it, land remarks suitable to-the to-the occasion. The guests bid him' good bye with fervent solicitations for his future well being, and many happy returns of the day, Mr. Hoyt was sixty-one, and i young, hale and hearty. May he see the full thirty-one more markers. mar-kers. ii "i ..mi. llllllllimi.. ..Illl 1 UIIIIIUUIIIIIII! ll'lllllillH |