Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-23
DIR. Borton Presented a Watch.

Dr. and Mrs. Asphalt entertained
Friday evening in honor of Dr. Bor-
tons 9th birthday as mentioned in Sat
urday's issue. There were present so
guests and after refreshments, the Hon.
III. G. Thayer Oh behalf of and with
best wishes of thirty-two old resi-
dents of Plymouth presented to the
doctor handsome gold watch with the
following remarks:
Doctor BortOn:-I have been reques-
ted by your friends here assembled, to
voice for them and myself the pleasure
we all enjoy on this suspicious and
happy occasion, and express to you our
hearty CALCULATIONS that you have
arrived in sound health and pleasant
surroundings at the 9th mile post In
your eventful career.
Most of us remember when you came
here forty years ago with your lovely
young wife and started in your pro-
fession as a physician, poor young
man, with the world before you. Some
remember your first call to the sick
chamber, and from that moment your
success was assured.
Most of us have been recipients of
your growing skill in your profession,
and have witnessed with pleasure and
satisfaction the high position you have
attain 4 in the profession, and the high
moral standing that has ever accom-
panied it, for it is a recognized fact that
physician should ever be alive to the
dignity of the medical fraternity.
When you came to Plymouth, then
village, with your brother, Amos Bor-
ton who has long since passed to the
other shore, you at once became men,
Der of our society and enjoyed with us
our pleasures and shared with US our
sorrows, and thus attained with your
family place IN our hearts. You have
possessed the quality of individuality
in marked degree. Whatever you
have said or done has borne the impress
of fine personality. Your friends are
numbered by the the hundreds, and
your life has been associated with hap
~ thoughts and kindly deeds. Your
career has been contemporaneous with
many distinguished men in your pro-
fession and in national affairs, and of
the most eventful period of the worlds
history. No age has made such ad
vances in all things that portend for
the betterment of man, as the years in
which you have lived.
Glance at the advances made in the
arts and sciences, AID in every depart
ment of human knowledge. Man has
literally chained the powers of nature,
and attached them to his conquering
chariot wheels. In no profession has
the advance been more marked than
that of the science of medicine.
You have lived in an era of railroads,
telegraphs, monographs, electric mo-
tors, Xrays, public sci ools, colleges and
universities, and greater than all. wo-
mans triumph in literature. scholar
ship, government, and an equal oppor-
tunity with man in the social and bust
ness affairs of life. You have not only
lived in an age of progress, but you
have been progressive in your profess
ion, which is one of the noblest, it being
for the alleviaton of human suffering.
BY your assiduIty and skill you have
kept abreast with the times, and have
restored hundreds of your patrons to
health and usefulness; and when skill
and medical science would not avail to
save life, you have tenderly cared for
the dying and pointed them to enduring
life beyond the dark river. For your
careful attention and kindness of heart
in times of sorrow and suffering your
friends will always hold you in dear re-
membrance. On behalf of your friends
who form this notable presence, pre-
sent you with this elegant watch as a
memento of this pleasant occasion. Its
gold case will be reminder of the
golden memories of tonight, as you