Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-01-09
eAirHruL SERVICE APPRECIATED

y Iuterdsy afternoon County Attorne
, Dfva N. Dale was engaged at the coul
hoeoe upon case before the commissioner
asd This sfiording the opportunity desired
it was seized upon by his fellow county off
GERS TO present to him handsome token @
their regard and esteem in the way of. an el
egant gold headed ebony cane handsomcl,
and appropriately engraved. County Clerl
c. +. Ford delivered the presentation speed
/ and spoke as follows:
Mr.. DALE: As the close of your term o
Office as attorney for our county is near al
hand, we, the other county officers, thinl
this convsnient and fit time to convey te
you some idea of our appreciation of the
faithful and efficient manner in which
you have performed the duties Of your
Office, and of the gentlenanly and
courteous treatment which you have accord
ed to each one of us during the last four
years. Even amidst the harrassing and per-
picking difficulties and responsibilities incl
dent to, and growing out of the peculiar
condition of affairs in our state. Especially
during the last two years you have carefully
worked We believe, for the best interest of
the county and your conduct toward us,
your comrades in Office, has ever been that
OF true gentleman and your intercourse
with us has been of the most friendly and
pleasant character, and without any desire
to Halter you We heartily say that when you
lay aside the office you now hold, our coun-
ty will lose one of the very best officers she
ever had.
And as slight token of our friendly re-
gard for yourself and our appreciation of
your valuable and kindly services, we pre-
sent you this cane, hoping that it will be
many years before you will need it as sup
port, and believing that as you look upon it
in the days, and years, to come, you will
kindly think of those who present il to you
to-day. Please accept it Mr.. Dale, as a
memento of the genuine friendship each one
of the givers feels toward you.
Mr.. Dale, though completely taken BY
surprise, replied in a well chosen and feeling
speech, in which he expressed his most
kindly feelings toward those with whom he
had come in contact during his official SER
vice, his deep gratitude to his colleagues in
Office, the donors of this beautiful present,
and closed by stating that his most pleasant
thoughts and grateful remembrance shall
ever be for the people of Sedgwick county.
Sheriff Fisher was now called for and re-
piled in one of his humorous and popular
sallies as follows:
Mr.. DALE:-On the eve of your retiring
officially from the portals of this building,
we, the leeches of Sedgwick county, through
courtesy called officers, have thought it
meet that We tender to you some token of |
friendship and esteem. i. On looking over /
the bobtail stock of 1884 held by Santa
Claus, we were at loss to select something |
appropriate. A. w. Oliver suggested that
we buy Barnum's white elephant, but owing
to financial depression abandoned the idea.
Geo. Steenrod suggested that we buy the
blood sweating hippopotamie, but Frank
Dale said that you could not ride it if YOU
had it. Geo. Walters wanted the New
Orleans Exposition building, but we thought
I might INVOLVE us in foreign war. hurry
Myers suggested that we buy An old time
hickory Jacksonian liberty pole. The pole
dea caught, but when we presented it to the
board of county commissioners they cut i.
Town TO cane. Take il, and when
hat John l.. sullivan form has
BECOME bowed with the weight of three
core and ten, and those auburn looks have
'ecome sandwiched with gray, use it to drive
logs out Of the house or tramps from the
remises.
Everybody was now in the best of humor,
nd when Mr.. Dale had sent out for box of
igais the scene was complete. and those
resent smoked the peace and success of the
ighly popular retiring county attorney
The list of those who were instrumental |
| bringing about this pleasant and worthy 9
,tion is appended: f. p. Ford, G. W. !
teenrod, John W. Bear, c. A. Vanness, @. G
!. Waiter, Murray Myers, II. ID. Heiser- [
an, b. ID. Hammond, J. A. Nelson, John a
isher, Z. B. Jewett and A. W. Oliver.