The Meriden Message Friday September 4, 1931 W.O. Warner Celebrates 80th Birthday. Lorain WARNER, from California came to visit his brother, W.O. aand help him celebrate his eightieth birthday on Aug. 27. A big birthday dinner with two birthday cakes was served at his home Thursday, and Sunday all of his children and grandchildren spent the day at Gage Park. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. A.B. Warner and family, Scott Warner and family, of Topeka, and his brother, Lorain, who is seventy-eight years old. W.O. Warner was born in Wayne Co., Ohio, in 1851. He has had an eventful and interesting life and is still enjoying good health. He spentmany years of his life in railroad work, assisting in the construction of U.P., Santa Fe, Louisville and Nashville, Burlington, Milwaukee and St. Paul. He had charge of equipment on railroad construction from Cumberland Gap to Storm Gap, Va., railroaded in the Rocky Mt. region in Wyoming and helped in snow blockcades. He drove an ox team in Nebraska, hauling contract buiding material for school houses, had a store at Lone Tree, Neb., in an Indian settlement and there is where he learned to speak the Indian dialect of the Pawnee tribe. He was immigrant agent for Santa Fe five years and had a pass that permitted im to ride on all branches of the system from Chicago to the cities of Mexico. He is the oldest practicing auctioneer in the state. Long may he live to dispel his usual cheer and happiness.