Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1916 — Surprise Party Given to Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Willis. [ARTICLE]

Surprise Party Given to Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Willis.

Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Willis are today moving to their new home in Union township. Last evening neighbors and friends to the number of fifty came in with well filled baskets, and a delightfulVicnic supper was served in the yard. Many of the neighbors were people who were living in the neighborhood thirty years ago when Mr. and Mrs. Willis moved here. After the supper the rest of the evening was spent in a social way, the older members relating incidents of the earlier days. Mr. Willis for years had a gun shop just south of his’home. Later he moved it up town where he engaged in the repairing of bicycles and automobiles, which occupation he followed until a few years ago. Recently he sold his property "to Miss Katie Shields and has since built a modem five room house on a small tract of ground across the road from his daughter’s home, Mrs. Leslie Alter, in Union township. Mr. and Mrs. Willis have been good neighbors as was indicated by the large number who came out to spend thd evening with them and to wish them a long and happy life in their new home.