Show TO RUTH GIFFEN GIETEN I 1 know a lovely lovel lady and you ion nil all know her too for she has lived and loved and worked wight right here by me lae and you she has crept into our very ery hearts as quiet as an olf elf because to everyone she gives a little of hen herself hensell self go food feed my lambs lai the master said find and ruth did hear the call afi U she came right here to ti mary Maryi i ivale ale to serve sero us one and all 1 then I nen for foi a time while to and fro 10 as a i loving pastor went both willingly and 1111 gently her humble life was nas spent there are youngsters young holl remember well for man many days das to ito come the tyle aures ut of berday liei day school where to do and learn were fun and those who ho for flue fine reading did have an unquenched thirst her for the hie library which she started in her church chinch I 1 know that I 1 can neer forget the beauty of her voice oice her lesii and her coinage courage ge have made uddo my me oft rejoice for I 1 have hae heard hoi her ni kiy with falth fulth that nothing cau call oer eer daunt the lord loid Is my shepherd I 1 never inore shall want but something happened to tier her to change cliance this ahi quiet olife our own fine editor tame cattle hoie and claimed her for hta his wife the ilie plute plate news won labod it us the best weekly in ili the laud land for mr giffels could edit will well milk ruth at ills his tight light liand hand then one more person cinie came to boll acla wake inao the paper better baill im sure you nil all know who ho I 1 mean why atu Rut ilis lis own ott n brother brot her bill ivd vi labow that three make ni ile a taff f lint aery hard ban to beat and the paper they have hae given lu as was of a treat but they arleaU ug ilire ale their have ihla small community oregon hlll seua bic uuie their hoille we L know now that they will have hae success in this now nev work they tart start yet a little piece from each ones onea heart goes with them as we part I 1 weve known you well and loved loed you well we wish lah that you could stay but since you find it best to leave god speed you on your way me bhe town has lost tine fine citizen and friends both tried and true and better homes club no 0 lias has lot loht its president too but though its always sad to part pait ivere glad you ion came this way we are better for the contacts weve lind had from day to day go 60 as you go please do believe bele that we do hope and trust find friends there who mean to you ion what hat you have hae meant to us the above poem was glen given by mr mis fred A Si valberg beig as a tribute to mrs charles M giffen at a farewell farenell social held in ili her honor |