Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1916 — Ladies of the G. A. R. Held Picnic Dinner on Comrade’s Birthday. [ARTICLE]

Ladies of the G. A. R. Held Picnic Dinner on Comrade’s Birthday.

The home of Mr. and Mrs. Will Postill'on North Main street was the scene of a pleasant gathering today, Thursday, when the Ladies of the G. A. R., forty-three in number, gathered there for a picnic dinner. The particular occasion was the 72nd birthday of Mrs. Postill’s father, J. P. Simons, who was presented with a scarf pin and holder, the presentation being made by Rev. J. P. Green. A most enjoyable time was had by those present.

Miss Ethel McCarthy is here from Chicago, where she has been employed and after a month’s visit with her parents will return to the city to take a new and better-paying position.

Dr. H. L. Brown, who recently returned from a business trip to Palatka, Fla., where himself and wife own a small apartment house, purchased another tract' of Florida land while there, getting 94 acres. The land is 30 miles inland from the Atlantic coast and 50 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. Thirty-five acres of the purchase is good productive land and will be set out in peach and pecan trees.