This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Walters, Peterson, Duncan, Trent, Carmack, Brown, Bennett, Allen, Dill Classification: Birth Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UNB.2ACI/995 Message Board Post: Pleasantly Surprised A very pleasant time was had at the beautiful home of Mr. And Mrs. Frank Walters, about one mile south of Antioch church, on Saturday, January 16th, when a host of relatives and friends met there with well filled baskets to celebrate Mrs. Walters, 50th birthday. Although taken completely by surprise, Mrs. Walters received her guests with great cordiality and everybody soon felt very much at home. About 1:00 o’clock, dinner was announced—and such a dinner your correspondent might write pages trying to describe the dinner and then he would be compelled to say with the Queen of Sheba, “The half was never yet been told.” But that dinner did show how Mrs. Walters had trained her daughters and some other mother had trained Mrs. Walter daughters-in-law in the art of cooking, for the dinner was gotten up by Mrs. Walter children aided by a few neighbors. After dinner Brother Dill made a brief address and closed with a prayer. At 3:30 the crowd began to disperse, wishing Mrs. Walters many happy returns. Besides the family, those present were: Rosa Peterson, husband and five children; Mr. And Mrs. Fletcher Walters and child; Mr. And Mrs. Oscar Walters and child Maggie Duncan and child; Mrs. Mateely Trent and child; Uncle John Carmack, and Aunt Thirza; Aunt Polly Brown; John and Clyde Peterson of Webster Grove, Mo., Uncle Peter Peterson; Mr. And Mrs. Rene DeMoslin ( or DeMoelin?) and four children; Miss Myrtle Bennett; Mr., and Mrs. Wm. Allen of Miller county and Brother Dill. Published in The Crocker News, Pulaski County, Missouri on Thursday, January 21, 1915.