The record-union., 1897-07-18

Owing to the absence of Mr.. Hoskin-
son and the difficulty of procuring a
substitute all available ministers be
ing at the international convention Of
Christian Endeavorers at San Fran
cisco, there was no service held at the
English Lutheran Church last Sunday.
The offertory ''Tary With Me" to be
sung by Mrs. Cooley Smith with cello
obligato by her daughter, Miss Edna
Smith, will be given this morning.
Mrs. Ben Crocker has returned from
a trip to the Bay.
The household of a certain citizen of
high standing in Sacramento, We're one
night talking with some friends of the
Christian Endeavor movement, the
large number of Fasteners who are
taking advantage of the excursion
rates to visit our Golden State, and
the different families all about them
who had been surprised by having
friends or relatives drop in upon them
at odd moments, when one of them re-
marked: Wei, its funny, but We
haven't had a friend or relative among
all those people who have come out
from the East, and we've so many
friends back there tool" Just at this
moment steps were heard on the front
porch, followed by a ring at the door
bell, and in another moment man, his
wife and two children were ushered in
to the room. Grasping the head OF
the house warmly by the hand, the
strange gentleman said, You don't
know me-do you? 1 thought you
wouldn't" Then followed explana-
tions and it transpired that the stran-
ger was an old school friend whom his
host had not seen for over thirty years
and had necessarily almost entirely
forgotten. OF course the genial host
made him and his family as welcome
as possible, slowing his "big-boX,
little-box, band-box and bundles" away
in the sleeping portion of the house as
it was too evident his friends had come
to stay They had come out from the
East on one of the excursion trains,
and directory had given them the
whereabouts of this old school friend
and they decided to make him a visit.
There are many of our citizens who
have received a like unexpected pleas
most forgotten friends, relatives being
also often accompanied by a neighbor,
thus calling into use every cot. bed
lounge and couch of which a house
holds furnishings can boast A GER
tain doctors family receiving an un-
expected visitation of this character,
We're obliged to call into play even the
good doctors operating chair for one
of the children, which, odd as the idea
seems when unfolded and Strengthened
out fat, made a most comfortable bed,
and one which the child liked so well
she would not if she could change it
for another.
DIR. Claude Mcgowan, who has been
very near to deaths door for the past
eight weeks, has. under the careful at
tention of DIR. Snider, improved so as to
be out of danger and able to take a
little nourishment. His friends say
he has changed very much during his
illness. but with the good care he is
receiving hope it will not be long now
before he is able to be around again.
DR.. and Mrs. Taylor have returned
from their wedding trip north, and
have taken up housekeeping in their
pretty new home on Seventeenth
street.
Ed O'Neil has returned from the
East and is soon to go to his mother
and sister in Portland, Oregon. His
stay is but a temporary one as his po-
sition in the East requires him to re-
turn there again ere long
Mrs. Susie Coffman has gone to San
Francisco on a visit to friends in that
city.
The night was lovely Overhead the
moon shed down her glorious light up
on the world beneath, touching with
fairy fingers tree, shrub, and even the
lowly grass. Suddenly, as if sprung
magically out of the earth. silent as
ghosts. down the quiet street moved a
strange procession. Men and women,
two and two. Slowly. silently and
without a word nearer they came. No
sound broke the intense stiffness. What
were they?-whither bound? Was it
some funeral procession? No. those
are not mourners, thus gaily attired.
Girls in white dresses and gay ribbons
are tc be seen as the procession moves