This message read, "With your ether old friends and admirers may I also extend my congratulations and best wishes on your eighty-seventh anniversary and with added hope that through the years to come there will be many sunshiny days. In recalling your many kindnesses in the old days when a youngster at Kimball and how you lectured me. I am reminded of the daily newspaper picture, 'When a fellow needs a friend.' "W. M. Jeffers."

This telegram came from another of her beys and said, "Best wishes for your continued good health and many more birthdays and may every one be more pleasant. "C. B. Irwin, General Agent,

"Cheyenne, Wyoming."

A few weeks preceding, in May, 1918, as Mr. Jeffers had been going through Kimball in his special car, he had the car set on the side track and asked the local employees if Mrs. Lynch was still living and, if so, where. Messrs. Jeffers and Irwin got out of the car and went over to the house to visit Mother Lynch. The heart of the good old mother was as gratified by the visit of these former boys as most anything that could have come to her.

Realizing that the story of Kimball could not be complete without its narration, in part, by one who had played so important part therein as Mrs. Lynch, the compiler secured seme of the points from her, as she could remember them, the morning after this memorable birthday party.

Mrs. Lynch narrates that she came out to Kimball in 1873. Mr. Darling was then agent for the Union Pacific. He later moved her here from below Sidney near Colton, to run the section house. There were then no houses here but a few 'dobes where the section men used to sleep. The next town east was Sidney, about thirty miles, and the next town west was Cheyenne about sixtyfive miles.