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MR. C.J. PAGE CELEBRATES HIS BIRTHDAY
Presented With Mementoes
[Welland Tribune, 7 August 1919]
The annual festivities of the birthday of one of the city’s well known and honored citizens, in the person of Mr. C.J. Page, was held on Tuesday, Aug. 5th, when a large number of his friends from his home city, Welland, St. Catharines and Niagara Falls participated in a picnic at Victoria Park. Thirty-six of his friends were seated around the festive board to partake of the many good eatables prepared by the ladies and which were heartily enjoyed. After dinner had been served, Mr. A. Griffiths, an esteemed companion of the host, was called to preside over the gathering, and in an appropriate speech on behalf of the guests, congratulated Mr. Page on his (?) birthday, and trusted he would live to enjoy many more of these social gatherings, after which the host of the day was presented with beautiful mementoes in the form of a gold headed cane and umbrella from his friends who wished for him many more years in which to enjoy the use of his gifts. The presentation was made on behalf of the guests by Miss Hewgil. The gifts were a pleasant surprise to the recipient and he thanked the donors for their kind remembrances.
The years of the host’s birthday were not publicly announced, but according to ancient customs, in days of yore, lighted candles denoting the years of your birth were placed on the cake- in this case forty miniature lighted wax candles appeared on the birthday cake, denoting the number of years the host had seen the light of day-in this world of joys and sorrows.
The cane was not presented to the host as a signal that his perambulators were weakening from declining years, nor the umbrella as a protection from the rays of sunshine or beatings of the storms to mar his beaming countenance, but tokens for him to remember, as the gifts of true friendship.
The decorations on the host’s auto on the home voyage, although emblematical for a bride and groom, were only to designate that the host of the day was still in “youth sublime” and not nearing “father time.” Ex Mayor Vaughn, ex Mayor Best, Alderman Dawdy and Harry Moore (postmaster general) on behalf of the guests extended to the host congratulations on this his (?) birthday and hoped to enjoy with him many more of these happy gatherings.
[Related TALE: CLAYTON JOHNSON PAGE - C.J. PAGE PASSES AWAY]
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