Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1920 — BID DEPARTING NEIGHBORS AN AFFECTIONATE FAREWELL [ARTICLE]

BID DEPARTING NEIGHBORS AN AFFECTIONATE FAREWELL

The neighbors and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Smith gathered at the Smith home, six miles west of this city Tuesday evening, for the purpose of expressing to their departing neighbors an affectionate farewell. For almost half a century Mr. and Mrs." Smith have lived upon tha farm they are soon to desert. The farm has been sold and the Newton township pioneers will move to this city and will occupy- a on North Webster street, .which they purchased of John Kresler. It is hot easy to sever the ties of love and friendship that halve been made during forty-five years of continuous residence in a single neighborhood. The occasion Tuesday evening was a happy one not unmixed with sorrow. The good>things to eat which had been bounteously supplied by the neighbors and the happiness of the evening will ever be remembered by all present. The evening was marked by good fellowship and informality which exists in the American rural district where *rtlficiality gives way to genuine friendship.