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Subject: Brightside Throws a Birthday Party for J. L. Judd.
Date: 22 May 2003 15:04:58 -0600
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Surnames: Judd, Orr
Classification: Birth
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THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. September 27, 1907. "A GLAD SURPRISE".--J. L. Judd, on last Saturday at the proper hour for meeting to begin at Liberty church, as his custom is, caught his team which he harnessed and hitched to his carriage and drove it to his front gate where he met his good wife and children, took them in and moved off towards the church, not thinking that the eyes of his kind neighbors were watching every movement he was making. But they were, and as soon as he was seated in his pew, they took possession of his domicile, and began to bake and stew and fry in the good old fashioned way, preparatory to a feast upon his return. While this baking and cooking was going on, and while the singing and praying and preaching was going on at the church, Joseph sat in his accustomed place without a dream of its being his birthday. But is was, and he knew it not. But his brethren knew and had planned to follow him to his home and to make him glad with their hearty good w!
ishes and congratulations.
At the close of the services Brother Judd with his wife and family left Brightside and started home, expecting the congregation to do likewise. But as he was near his home he cast his eyes toward the way he had come and with great surprise he beheld almost the entire congregation coming after him. What could the matter be? When momentarily, as it were, his eyes were opened to the fact that this day, September 21, 1907 was his birthday, and his friends were taking advantage of the occasion. Shortly after this however, his friends assured him they were not going to do him any harm, when they took from a carriage a nice rocker which was given him as a token of their respect for him on his 50th birthday. This was not all: They took possession and surrounded his house like bees surround a dish of honey--75 in number--men, women and children helped themselves, as if they were at home. All were glad and Joe himself could not help smiling as he saw them all partake of the abundan!
ce of good things, especially ordered for that occasion.
After the dinner was disposed of and a very pleasant little social was indulged in, S. S. Orr presented J. L. Judd with some birthday presents in his Scoth-Irish way, making his audience laugh at the use of his pleasantries--after which it was proposed by Elder Ring, of Lincoln, Neb., that "God be with you till we meet again," be sung, after which the guests took their departure feeling that Brightside people can furnish magnanimous surprise parties on very short notice.
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