Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1912 — NEVER SICK IN 89 YEARS [ARTICLE]

NEVER SICK IN 89 YEARS

Grand Old Man of Pennsylvania Town Celebrates Eighty-ninth , Birthday. Royersford, Pa. —Wednesday evemarked a red letter occasion m the career of Reuben Winter, Sr., Royersford’s grand old man. It was then he celebrated his eighty-ninth birthday anniversary, surrounded by his family and a few intimate friends, at his home on Main street. Four generations were represented at the affair, Reuben Winter, Sr., his daughter, Mr*, Elizabeth Geissinger; her son Carl, and his son, Robert. Reuben Winter has been a resident of Royersford since he waß 24 years of age. For a quarter of a century he was station agent of the Reading Railway and postmaster of the town, having received his first commission from President'dames Buchanan. For a half-century Mr. Winter, was a director of the National Bank of Phoentxville, and only resigned last year because of the necessity of making the trip of four miles each week on the railroad to attend the meetings of directors. He is still a director in the Royersford Trust Company. Reuben Winter is a self-made man, emphatically. He accumulated a competency by dint of hard work and strict economy In his youngef days and through careful investments has provided a very substantial Income. ! For 23 years, since the Grace Lutheran congregation was organized in Royersford, he has been one of its most active members, a member of the official board of the church since its organization, and a devoted attendant at all the services, both of the church and the Sunday school, and every Sunday finds him teaching his bible class. He has never been sick a day in his life and never used either tobacco or strong drink. His faculties are brilliant today, and barring a slight tendency toward weakness of sight he is as bright as ever. He readily recalls Incidents in his life since he was 6 years of age, and is an acknowledged authority on dates of occurrences of the distant past. On his anniversary he was the recipient of a handspme chair, the gift of his children, 'end numerous emblems of flowers, one a handsome bouquet of 89 carnatiohs from his children, and another a bouquet of very large white chrysanthemums, the gift of John Dismant, of Phoenixville, aged 84, a close friend.

from the floating floe running ten feet above the bulwark, then the piled up mass from the floe sank down, leaving the ship suspended on the side of the berg, her only supports to keep Her stationary in this dangerous position being two small wedge pieces, one at the stern and the other at the bow. She was in imminent danger of falling over on her broadside from that height. The boats had been got out, but they were smashed to pieces by the ice. Three times the ice floe pressed" against the berg and with the boats gone the loss of the ship would have entailed that of all on board. Suddenly the pressure eased off and the Intrepid was launched Into the sea from her lofty position, without Injury. Lieutenant Caton and others had walked under* her keel while she was suspended on the side of the iceberg. The present Admiral Sir V. Vesey Hamilton Is the only survivor of those who were actually on board her at the time.