Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1911 — Will Keep Open House on Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary. [ARTICLE]

Will Keep Open House on Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary.

Mr. and Mrs. D. EL Hollister will have been married fifty years next Tuesday, Sept sth, and that will also be the 68th anniversary of Mrs. Hollister’s birth. The venerable couple will keep open house that day, holding informal receptions both afternoon and evening, from 2 to 5 o’clock in the afternoon and from 7:30 to 10 o'clock in the evening. All their friends are invited to call during those hours.

“Deacon,” as Mr. Hollister is familiarly known, refuses to feel bad very long at a time, and has now almost entirely recovered from his carbuncle troubles, sufficiently so, at any rate, to enjoy a big laugh and inspire others to joviality. He states that he does not want to put himself to any unwarranted expense in this reception, but he proposes to see that all his friends attend the reception and to havf them arrested if they don’t come. As he is a poor man and this would put him to considerable expense, he believes his friends will make such action unnecessary by responding to this general Invitation.

Passenger train No. 6, due in Rensselaer at 3:15 o’clock, did not arrive until 10:30 Wednesday night The delay was caused at Lafayette Junction, where a Big Four engine ran off the derail, blocking the Monon, Big Four and Lake- Brie and Western tracks. A number of people who were here from northern points halted at the station from 3 o’clock until the arrival of the train. Others procured automobiles to take them to their homes, and still others 'waited until this morning.