Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1914 — Old Friends Spent Fourth With Bob Drake and Family. [ARTICLE]

Old Friends Spent Fourth With Bob Drake and Family.

A very delightful home picnic was enjoyed at the home of Robert S. Drake, on the old Jasper Stidham farm near Taylor’s Station, in Tippecanoe county. A number of their old neighbor* from Jasper county planned to surprise them by drivingdown and reminding them that they Still enjoyed their company. The autos not only carried human freight, but the good women had many well filled baskets and at the noon hour a table was spread in two large rooms of the Drake home and fifty-three persons gathered around to appease their appetites. The party left for their homes at about 4 o’clock and all agreed that the Fourth had been very pleasantly spent. Those pesent were Clyde Randle and family, Simon Cook and family, Chas. Erb and family, Ed Cook and wife, Brook SnedCker and family, Jo®. Stewart and wife, Rollin Johns and wife, Clyde Foulk and mother, Miss Agnes Stiers and the Misses'Ringei'sen from near Rensselaer; Miss Louise''Strantz, of Chalmers; Mrs. John Pearson and Mrs. Roy Dane, of Lafayette, Rollin Stewart and family, of Taylor’s Station, and Rev. Olin S. Stewart and family, of Montmorenci.

President Wilson has nominated George T. Marie, of San Francisco, as ambassador 'to Russia Reports from Thomas Birch, American minister to Portugal, say the Portugese senate has appropriated SIOO,OOO for its exhibit at the San Francisco exposition. *