The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-12-29

Win the southern Paclfic company.
Ever since then the two men have
been in constant close friendship,
and it has pleased the Judge, now
in the ranks of the white-haired, to
watch Senator Sheehan's career,
first as an employe Of the Southern
Pacific company, by whom the sena-
tor was employed as freight con-
ductor when he was offered the
unsolicited Office of county recorder
OF Humboldt county. The judge
related how the then young
and perhaps obscure Sheehan had
thereafter been reelected to the re-
corder's office, only to resign when
Senator Nixon called for his SER
vices in the First National Bank,
with which institution he has been
associated ever since and in which
he rose from a clerkship to cashier
and vice-president, with an even
greater field now before him. Judge
Langwith said that Senator Shee-
han has been engaged in construc-
tive work from the beginning, in
variably for the benefit of Hum
boldt county. Aside from the
monuments to his energy related
by other speakers, the judge men,
toned that Senator Sheehan's work
for the sheep and cattle industries
OF northern Nevada, during recent
trying years, has been such that an
everlasting debt of gratitude is his
due. He had been positively as
sured by the senator, he said, that
the great Grass Valley irrigation
project would be pushed to COM
pletion regardless of where the
senator's duties may take him, and
this. the judge said, would prove a
fitting climax to lifetime of ser
vice to this community.
c.. E. Robins was introduced as
one who had been born, raised and
educated here, and he acknowledged
the allegation. He incidentally ad-
mitted that the first of these had
occurred at least forty years ago
and that his memory carried him
back to the time when he first
knew a young fellow named Shee-
han, who was extremely pleasant to
meet. As the young man Sheehan
would be met while en- route to
continue his sparkling" procliyities
with certain young lady who ever
since has been his constant help
meet, his greeting was an ever
CHEEKY Good evening, Clifford"
and the .salutation, regardless of
how trying the times, has never
since lost any of its gsnuineness.
Senator Sheehan and the speaker
entered the courthouse at about
the same time, he said, the senator
as recorder and Robins as justice of
the peace.
The concourse of men turning
out for the banquet Thursday night
was, in Robins opinion, more elo-
quent as a tribute than any words
which he might command, and he
touched upon the little things in
Senator Sheehan's life which are of
greater Importance than the more
materialistic monuments, for there
by the senator had builded a monu-
ment in the hearts of the people.
The speaker found satisfaction in
the fact that Senator Sheehan is
not really leaving this city, for the
'tep which he has taken will enable
him to carry out even greater
works, and he stated emphatically
that the. senator could be depended
upon so to do. He told Senator
Sheehan that regardless of his loca-
tion he could always be assured a
place in the hearts of the people
here,
Toastmaster Brandon reiterated
Judge Lagwith's statement concern
ing the Grass Valley irrigation pro-
ject and said that Senator Sheehan
ran be depended upon to see it
through. He then called upon
Judge ]. A. Callahan to present to
Senator Sheehan a gift to be a re-
minder Of the esteem, affection and
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