Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-01-08
FAITHFUL SERVICE APPRECIATED.

hE III SLsNviSI hE NA-~sSse -.
Yesterday afternoon County Attorney
David NJ. Dale was engaged at the court
house upon a case before the commissioners,
and this affording the opportunity desired,
it was seized upon by his fellow county Off
GERS TO present to him a handsome token of
their regard and esteem in the way of an ell
egant gold headed ebony cane handsomely
and appropriately engraved. County Clerk
c. p. Ford delivered the presentation speech
and spoke as follows:
Mn. Dale: rs the close Of your term of
Office as attorney for our county is near at
band, We, the other county officer, think
this a convsBicnt and fit time TO convey TO
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 gentleinanly and
courteous treatment which you have accord
ed TO each one Of us during the last four
years. Even amidst the harrassing and per-
pleNing difficulties and responsibilities incl
dent 10, 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 fatter 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 a slight token of our friendly re-
gard for yourself and our appreciation of
your valuab!. and kindly services, we pre-
sent you this. cane, hoping that it will be
many years before you will need il as a 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 it to you
to-day. Please accept it Mr.. Dale, as a
mcmento of the genuine friendship each one
of :he givers feels toward you.
Mr.. Dale, though completely taken by
HttcN- Itl'iiti lii a well ffffeth anu
speech, in which he expressed his most
kindly feelings toward those with whom he
bad come in contact during lis official SER
vice, his deep gratitude TO his colleagues in
Office, the donors Of this beautiful present,
aud closed by stating that his most pleasant
thoughts and grateful reinembrances shall
ever be for the people of Scdgwick county.
Sheriff Fisher was now called for and re-
piled in one of his humorous and popular
sullies 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 il
meet that We tender TO you some token Of
friendship and esteem On looking over
the bo5tail stock of 1894 held by Santa
Claus, We we're at loss TO select something
appropriate. A W. Oliver suggested that
We buy Barnum's white elephant, but owing
to financial depression abandoned tb' i'ea.
Geo. Steenrod suggested that We b he
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
it might involve us in n foreign war. hurry
Myers suggested that we buy an old time
hickory ,Iacksonian liberty pole. The pole
idea caught, but when we presented it to the
| board of county commissioners they cut il
down TO cane Take it. ard when
that John L. Sullivan form has
become bowed with the weight of three
score and ten, and those auburn looks have
become sandwiched with gray, use ii TO drive
dogs out of the house or tramps from the
premises.
Everybody was now in the best of humor,
and when Mr.. Dale had cent out for box of
cigars the scene was complete, and those
present smoked the peace and success of the
highly popular retiring county attorney.
The list of those who were instrumental
in bringing about this pleasant and worthy
action is appended: +. p. Ford, G. W.
Stcenrod, John W. Bear, c. a. Vanness, G.
W. Waiter, Murray Myers, ii. ID. Heiser-
man, b. ID. Hammond, J. A. Nelson. John
Fisher, +. b. Jewett and 4. W. Oliver.