Birthday
Party
Mr. Thomas Marshall of
Vittoria arrived at his 88th birthday on Tuesday, 26 Mar
1910.
Although the weather is
usually fine on this date yet it did not follow the rule this
time, as it turned our cold and stormy, but this did not prevent
Mr. Marshall's neighbors, friends and relatives from gathering at
his comfortable home in the historic village of Vittoria to
celebrate the event and cheer this venerable patriarch on his way
toward the century mark.
Being one of the guests, we
found Mr. Marshall hale and hearty, and a company of between 60
and 70 of the best people of the county of Norfolk.
If everyone in this world
were just like everyone that was there, there would be no need of
Dreadnoughts or additional military forces; in fact all military
operations would cease throughout the world.
Among the guests we
noticed: Mr. & Mrs. John Beemer,
Mr. & Mrs. D. E. McIntosh, Mr. & Mrs. Lewis Bowden
Mr. & Mrs. Chauncey Cook, Mr. & Mrs. Harry Beemer
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Marshall, Mr. & Mrs. J. Church
Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Wood and daughters
Mr. & Mrs. Egbert Kitchen, Mr. & Mrs. Edmund Marshall
Mrs. E. Brown, Mr. & Mrs. E. Starling
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Lemon, Mr. & Mrs. Chris. Johnson
Mr. & Mrs. Geo. Ferris, Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Doan
Mr. James Hart, Miss Gamble, Mrs. McConnell
Mrs. Mahlon Wilson, Mrs. John Thompson,
Mrs. Ernest Sharpe [sic], Mrs. J. Marshall and
daughter
Mrs. Robert Marshall, Mrs. Davis
Miss Bena Marshall and sister, Mrs. Albert Sharpe [sic]
Rev. Allen Tedford, beside a goodly number of wide awake and happy
children, without whose presence a party would be greatly lacking.
We do not feel justified in
closing this account without mentioning that Mr. Marshall's
present wife is the daughter of Peter Wyckoff, one of the early
pioneers and settlers of Norfolk, and the widow of Ira Wood, whom
we well remember, and mother of Herbert Wood, a business man and
citizen of Simcoe.
