Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-08-12
Birthday Party at the
Clarence Raisbeck Home
Especial Correspondence to the Herald.)
Saturday, Aug. 8.

party and | want to tell you about 1t.
1 am a Teenie Vicente. I live under
a rock down by the Wilcox bridge that
crosses Grant river. Yesterday it rain
ed and the river kept growing and
growing until it came right to my
front door and some of the water
rained into my house last night. My
house was very damp. so bright and
early this morning, 1 crept out for
sun bath. Just as l was comfortably
stretched out on a warm sand rock
that old know-it-all, Mr. Blue Jay
came flying over me shouting: Joy,
Joy, Murray Hurray-
Birthday-par-tay
For Iva and Man-day.
Answered Bob White "All right, All
right" and straightway called togeth-
er all the little Bobs and told them to
follow him. He said they would go
up the road and into the cornfield just
below the house where the party was
to be- You know birds think a party
is circus.
| decided l must go and watch that
party. was not certain, but I thought
Iva and Mandy lived in that large gray
house where the front windows are
always gay with flowers and the lawn
is also real f1owery.
AS it takes a Teenie Vicente quite a
while to travel a short distance I
hurriedly dressed and started up the
road. 7 did not want anyone to see
me so 1 was compelled to make many
sly hops and skips to keep out of
sight. At last toward noon l reached
the first yard. A big wicked animal
ran to and fro along the fence and
waited ages for him to go away. (Af-
terward / heard the children call this
animal "RingO.
| decided to travel outside of the
fence. Along came the teacher, with
Bobbie and Billie Blackburn. heard
Mr.. Eat-a-Nut Squirrel say that Bobbie
wanted to catch Teenie Vicente, so
now I began to feel afraid.
When / looked toward the lawn l
saw such a gay crowd of boys and
girls. / spied a bed of flaming dahlias
with a tiny fence around it and when
the children played, drop the hand
kerchief" l crept ever so quietly and
carefully into that flower bed. Later
when they played button, button" /
managed to crawl under thick
growth of dahlia bushes.
L
are dressed and how they act" 1 whis-
pered to myself. First I saw Ohio Ga
bel Ct found out today is his birthday,
also). You know he is the chap who
saw a big snake that chartered its
teeth at him. Each of Otto's eyes
holds bushel of mischief. With him
was his sister, Opal. have heard her
sing at school. She has a very pretty
voice.
Violet Stoney and Myrtle Taylor
were together as usual. Violet is the
girl who would rather wear mischief
on her face than ruffles on her dress.
Myrtle has those large bright eyes.
Sometimes they look so tame and
sometimes they din't.
Then along came Iva and Mandy,
each with an armfull of presents
which their friends had given them.
Down in the lawn swing were a
crowd of boys laughing and talking. /
think they were Charles Udelhofen,
Russell Wise, Ewart Ledbury, John
Phillips, Tavern Stoney, and Richard
Philips I wish l could have heard
what they were saying. I saw many
dolls. You know the kind that walk
and talk. Their names are Howard
Bishop, Marian, Virginia and Helen
Irish, Laguine and Dorothy Barr, Hill
ma and Hilda Stoney, Barbara Auel,
Mandy Belle Raisbeck and Ruth Led
bury Some of the dolls have blue
eyes. some gray eyes, and some have
big brown eyes. Yes, they were dolls,
because they had on real dolls
clothes. I saw twin girls, Helen and
Dorothy Wamsley, dressed in white
I'M, I,oI
out of snow drift. With the twins
was Dorothy Stoney. She is quiet,
smiling little girl. Her teacher calls
her "Dottie Dimple."
Two jolly fun-loving girls from Bee
town are Doris Clifton and Bernice
Peck Helen Philips was the "oriole
girl" with her golden dress and dark
hair. Helen Bishop was the 'blue-
bird girl" with a pretty dress of white
and blue. The girl with those dark
snappy eyes is Virginia FARMLAND. Oh
yes. She can almost talk with her
eyes. And here comes Iva the hap
piest girl in the crowd because she
likes parties and this is her party.
felt very sorry for one little fellow
Gerald Kitto. He was i'll and coult'
not play.
From the funny paper, out stepped
the Katzenjammer Twins, Leland
Clifton and Willard Galley.
1 also spied Billie Blackburn again.
He's the little boy who likes four
things: bananas, ice cream, candy and
frossinent Che means frosting) Talk
about good things and they will come
All at once a cunning little table
grew right on the lawn and it bios
somed with all sorts of cakes. Two
ice cream freeZers also popped out of
the ground close to my hiding place.
When serving the ice cream, now and
then bit would fall on a dahlia leaf
and always got that. also got sew
eral big crumbs of delicious cake
Some of the lemonade was spilled on
a leaf, so | got taste of that. Every
thing was so very, very good.
The little folks sat on rugs and
robes and how contented and happy
they looked while they were eating
The big boys said funny things and I
almost laughed outright, but l grabbed
dahlia leaf and held it over my nose
and mouth to keep from making any
noise.
1t was getting late so l sneaked
away as soon as l could. I rode part
Of the way home on a caterpillar. Bob