Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1910 — Colonel Phillips Pleads Guilty to Being 4x11 to Party of Friends. [ARTICLE]

Colonel Phillips Pleads Guilty to Being 4x11 to Party of Friends.

Colonel Fred Phillips arrived home this Saturday morning from Covington, Ind., and when he arrived at his home for dinner he found an even half hundred friends there to greet him. They had been invited by Mrs. Phillips to remind Fred that he was 44 yearß of age. As a matter of fact he lacked two days of being 44, his birthday being the 26th, which is Monday. The colonel was not aware of the fact that anything was doing until he rounded the corner on College avenue and saw a half dozen automobiles lined up at his home and he did not then anticipate such a big crowd as was there to receive him. He was hustled to a chair on which was Inscribed “44 years or over” and which the guests presented him with, and with his little daughter Grace Augusta on his knee a graphophone was set in motion and a very pretty song, “My Old Arm Chair” was rendered. The colonel is equal to affairs of this kind and when he had a chance to speak he said, “I don’t know what it means, but you’re a damned good looking bunch and all welcome.” Dinner followed and the half hundred men went Into the spread without regard to the high cost of living and Fred was forced to acknowledge that it meant a big hole in his Rhode Island Red stock. Business was urgent for all and there was a hasty getaway after the meal, and Fred was urging all to come back when he was eighty-eight. There is only one thing that exceeds Fred’s hospitality and that * is his wife’s cooking.,