Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1910 — “Grand Old Man” Phillips Passes Eighty-Seventh Milestone. [ARTICLE]

“Grand Old Man” Phillips Passes Eighty-Seventh Milestone.

Simon Phillips, erect and stately, bears lightly his eighty-seven years, and is getting through this long, hard winter jn splendid shape. His birthday was Tuesday, Feb. Bth, and Geo. Pate seldom overlooks anything so important to one of his friends. Accordingly he planned a little surprise for the “Grand Old Man” and when Mr. Phillips came in for his dinner as is his almost daily custom, Landlord Fate had a table specially prepared for him, and Norman Warner and George Pumphrey there to eat dinner with him. The jovial landlord saw to it that nothing was left undone to make the occasion a pleasant one for it is not often that one of his guests arrives at the age of 87 years. Almost an hour was spent in eating and reminiscence and the host of honor, the two guehts and the host in fact enjoyed the event thoroughly.