Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1917 — Celebrates 82nd Birthday. [ARTICLE]

Celebrates 82nd Birthday.

Medaryville Journal. . R. L. P. Massey says he wishes his birthday would come every two weeks, as nearly fifty relatives and friends met Sunday at Duanes bridge to celebrate his 82nd birthday. A bounteous feast was spread on long tables loaned for the occasion by the ice cream man of that place. In the afternoon the crowd was entertained by a free for all swim in the cool waters of the Kankakee river. The “prize” was voted to Fred Yarger, as diver. —~