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Birthday Surprise

         	Harrod, O., March 6, 1906

      On Monday evening, March 6, 1906, friends and neighbors to the number 
of fifty-eight gathered at the pleasant country home of Evan Bennet, 
three-fourths of a mile west of Harrod, to help celebrate his fifty-eight 
birthday.  At 8 p.m. all were invited to the spacious dining room, where the 
table, groaning under its load of goodly wians that only the farmers' wives 
know how to prepare, was awaiting them.  Not louder did the table groan 
before supper tham Alia Wilkins and Park Baker groaned after supper.  They 
say they are always glad when a birthday party is in the neighborhood, but 
oh! their poor stomachs.  After Wilknis and Baker had grown quiet, the 
evening was spent in games and social chat, and at a late hour all departed 
wishing Mr. Bennet many more happy birthdays.  Those who helped to make the 
evening an enjoyable one were:  Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Sprinkle, Mr. and Mrs. 
John McCluer, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. McCluer, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Moyer, Mr. and 
Mrs. E. A. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Baker, Mr. 
and Mrs. Walter Klinger, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Wilkins, Mr. and Mrs. Clint 
Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Watkins, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Smith, Mrs. Mary 
Musser, Mrs. Anne Davis, Grandma Sprinkle, Rev. D. D. Thomas, Messers, Miles 
Sprinkle, Willie Elzy, Noah, Orval and Lester McCluer, Doit Bodell, Carnot 
Roberts, Hobert Fisher, Vernon  Wilkins, Fred Baker, Mirl Cole, Jason and 
Irwin Thomas, Tom, Sam and David Bennet, and Misses Mabel, Mary and Ethel 
Roberts, Hat-