On
Saturday evening the friends and relatives of Mrs. J. W. Procunier to the
number of fifty, assembled and proceeded to take her by surprise on the
eve of her sixty-sixth birthday.
Mrs. J. W. Procunier was the third child
of Uncle Ned Foster and Aunt Laurie, who were known as such by all people
far and near.
Mrs. Procunier is the mother of eleven children, ten
of whom are living, six are in Chicago where they have gone to seek
employment and found it. One son is overseer of one of the largest
factories in Chicago and is the patentee of several inventions of his own
genius.
...
The only two from a distance were Mrs. Blake, of Brandon, N.W.T., who is
visiting friends and relatives in this section and Mrs. Josiah Becker, of
Dundas, sister of Mrs. Procunier.
...
Mrs. Procunier had been kept
ignorant of the event and never surmised a thing as she was expecting her
daughter, Mrs. Cowan, to spend Sunday under the parental roof.
