Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1911 — Entertained in Honor of Their Mother's Eighty-Fourth Birthday. [ARTICLE]

Entertained in Honor of Their Mother's Eighty-Fourth Birthday.

Mrs. J. F. Hardman, Mrs. F. J. Sears and Mrs. A. F. Long are this afternoon entertaining at the home of the former, a number of members of the Eastern Star in honor of their mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Purcuplle, who is 84 years of ago today, Jan. 4th. When the Eastern Btar chapter was instituted in Rensseiaer about 1878, Mrs. Purcuplle was made the Worthy Matron. Among other charter members of that chapter were Mrs. M- EL Spitler, Mrs. Maria Hopkins, Mrs. J. W. Powell, Mrs. Agnes Kelley and Mra. Mart Baylor. All but the two first named have moved from Rensselaer.