The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-12-08
EDITOR CETSA
SOCK SHOWER

Editors are human beings same as
other folks, and once a year have
birthday-just like other folks. Sat-
urday happened to be the anniversary
of the day on which the Times Record
editor was ushered into this world and
the fact became known to Tom Nu-
gent, secretary of the Rotary Club,
of which said editor is a member.
Now Tom is somewhat Of a joker and
he straightway went out among the
by use of the telephone apprised them
of t hisall important event in our life,
and advised each member of the club
to recognize this important event
which has meant so much to the world,
the Trubshaw family, and the past
few years to the nonpartisan league
of Barnes county and the state of
North Dakota, to send US in each one
of them a pair of socks to keep US
from getting cold feet in the future:
and they ran true to form as good Ro-
tarians, and commencing at ten in the
morning and keeping it up until late
at night, packages of every size and
description, ranging from two foot
band box to one only two inches in
size, the packages of socks were piled
high upon the editorial desk and de-
livered by special messenger to the
editorial domicile. There were socks
Of every conceivable color and size, re-
gardless of size-so long as they
were socks-they "socked" it to us in
fine shape did these fellow Rotarians:
and for many months to come the
stores of this city will be deprived of
selling US socks. It was great
shower and to each and every fellow
Rotarian we hereby tender our hearty
appreciation of the kindly spirit and
fun shown in this enterprise. 1t
made it one of the gladdest days of all
our life because it showed spirit of
friendliness and fun that goes far to
making this old world good place in
which to live among so good lot OF
fellow men. But that is not all.
When we got home Saturday night
the good wife had the dining room ia
BILE adorned with a beautiful bouquet
of chrysanthemums, a lovely birthday
cake and a few very useful and hand
some presents to remind US that she:
too, had this event in mind. But that
is HOC all, OuI ctSSloCdIlC cuItO1 Ac%o
made mention of our natal day in the
columns of the family journal, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Carr, good and old
time friends of the editor,> saw this
item, and they straightway out of the
goodness of their heart determined to
add another bright chapter to the
days pleasure, and just about seven
Saturday night, knock at the door
revealed Fred Carr, bearing burden
in his arms which he handed to the
good wife with the compliments of
himself and Mrs. Carr, with the remark
that they had noticed it was the edi-
tors birthday and they wanted to pre-
sent something of value-it was a
generous supply of fresh beef, one OF
those gifts that helps out materially
in these days Of high cost of living.
It was a generous gift and we thank
the donors most heartily. Our read
ers must excuse us for thus taking
up so much space writing about our
personal affairs, but such happenings
have tendency to give one that
grand and glorious feeling that
comes to every person who is appre-
ciative of the deeds of kindness and
good will of friends and neighbors. 1t
was great birthday and will never
be forgotten.