The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-03-23
A BIRTHDAY DINNER

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J believe it was in bringing Up
/ Father" where I read that Father
was having birthday dinner and one
of the guests was an elderly female
leighbor and she was congratulating
Father on his dinner and remarked
! that she had never had a birthday
dinner when Father replied that she
had missed 80 many fine opportunities
to have had one that he did not un-
| derstand it.
! Well, our friend John Bach Beden-
! baugh, has custom Of many years
standing of having a birthday dinner
each year and of inviting a number
if his friends to enjoy the dinner
with him. I am like the old lady. I
have never had birthday dinner,
and | reckon I am still more like
her in having missed. a good many
opportunities, but l have had the
pleasure of attending and enjoying
! several of my friend Bedenbaugh's
dinners and this year the dinner and
the birthday came on Sunday-he al
ways has the dinner on the Sunday
J following his birthday-if the birth
day does not come on Sunday but as
said the birthday this time was On
Sunday, March IS, just one day after
! St. Patrich's.
Last year it was at his home at Po-
maria. This year his mother, Mrs.
| Ella Bedenbaugh, wanted him to have
! the dinner at her home at KILLERS
bridge, and it was there and it was
one of those dinners that you read
about but seldom have the opportun1-'
! ty to enjoy, and prepared as only the
good women of NewberTy know how
to prepare. The high cost Of living
i that you read about did not seem to-
have been considered, and why should
it? These are the farmers that they
, have been talking about, but who do
not come and do much Of the talk
ing, they grow on the farm what they
need to live on and the fat pigs that
were in the lot and pasture and the
fine hehs and geese and turkeys IN
the barnyard was living evidence that
provision is now being made for an
other harvest OF good things TO eat.
Well. when the farmers learn to grow
what they have to have to eat, as they
can in this section Of the woods, why
the high cost OF living will not both
er them.
Mrs. Ella Bedenbaugh has four
sons and four daughters and they
were all present at the dinner. Mr..
John B. Bedenbaugh who lives at Po-
maria, Mr.. William l.. Bedenbaugh
who farms near Pomaria and who
has the public spirit and drags the
roads in his section, Mr. l.. Berley
Bedenbaugh who lives wit hhis moth
er and also teaches the school at
st. Pauls, DR.. A. J. Bedenbaugh who
is a successful dentist in Columbia
and Mrs. Richards who lives in Co
lumbia, Mrs. Nike Hope, Misses Annie
Mae and Mss Leola Bedenbaugh who
live with their mother.
From Columbia there we're present
Misses Alma Folk and Lilly Nc
Laughlfn and DR.. R. B. Durham ana
Prof. Ben Al. Sawyer and Mr.. G. G.
Roberts. The Columbia party mo-
tored up from Columbia on Sunday
morning with DR.. Beder laugh in his
car. From Pomaria were ". 8.
Counts Prof. X. R. Kreps and -
Lominick and from Little Mountain
Mai. W. B. Wise and from Batesburg
Mr.. Hal Shealy. l drove down from
Newberry in III and at Prosperity
was joined by Miss Ellen Werts,
sister of Mrs. J. B. Bedeltbaugh.
1t was pleasant day and We all
enjoyed the congenial company and
the good dinner as we'll and hope
that Mr.. Bedenbaugh may live to
have many more birthdays and many
more birthday dinners.
I learned that Mr.. John F. Kibler
who lives near by and who has been
quite sick for some time was mucn
improved and was able now to be out. d,
1t makes me feel like l am getting
back home to get in this community.
It is only two miles from the place
where I was born and in the COM
munitv where my childhood was spent
and near the old place where [ first
went to school and many of the good
old homes of the past still stand.
F. n A.