Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1918 — SATURDAY, MARCH 23, TO BE A GREAT DAY [ARTICLE]

SATURDAY, MARCH 23, TO BE A GREAT DAY

Great preparations are being made to make the forthcoming Red Cross Auction Sale day one of the most important in the history of Jasper county. Many people are contributing articles, and among these is a fine thousand pound heifer, which has been donated by J. J. Lawler, the man who always comes across liberally for every good and deserving enterprise that the people here request him to help. But, Saturday, March 23 is to be a great day for another reason. It will be the sixtieth birthday of Grant Warner, Rensselaer’s veteran business man. Mr. Warner resented the item published in this paper, which represented his kid brother, Hale Warner, as being the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Warner, That honor belongs to Grant and we find him to be mighty jealous of the fact. If Grant will follow the example of his worthy father and give us as good weather on his birthday as'Norman Warner has given us today, which is his eighty-fifth birthday, it will be greatly appreciated and the editor will pulically apologize to him for the mistake in giving his brother,- Hale, the senior place among the sons of Mr. and .Mrs. Norman Warner.