Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1914 — Friends of Wm. Blankenbaker Celebrate His 68th Birthday. [ARTICLE]

Friends of Wm. Blankenbaker Celebrate His 68th Birthday.

In - commemoration of the 68th birthday of Wm. Blankenbaker in the village of Parr, a great feast was held in the leafy grove, where a long table spread to the bending point with the beat the land affords was surrounded by more than a hundred friends, relatives and neighbors. They certainly did justice to the edibles-without fear or favor or choice of selection. There was plenty and to spare and there were 12 basketsful gathered up after the feast. Uncle Bill went to church at Rosebud i as usual and on'returning found the woods alive with trespassers and his bulldog locked up in the wagon shed. He made a short speech of welcome in which he stated that he was completely and agreeably surprised and had not been so nearly rounded up since a previous event 23 years ago. Photographs' of the champion feeders were taken and a group snapshot when developed will reveal the'entire company.—A Member.