Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1910 — DMAZS AND DAUGHTERS. [ARTICLE]

DMAZS AND DAUGHTERS.

r* ■ i ' Mrs. W, (/. Byggs of Seattle, Wasb„ has succeeded in grewing a beautiful rose whose stem is smooth like that of a lily. .. Mrs. Grover Cleveland and her daughters and son returned recently from Europe, where she has spent the past year, most of the time in Lausanne, Switzerland, where the children were in school. Mrs. Catherine Van Voorhis of Rochester is said to have made the largest flag that ever floated over the capital at Washington. She attended the suffrage convention recently held in Washington and in spite of her eighty years took part in -all the proceedings. * Mrs. Virginia Hamersley Field has obtained permission to visit and give spiritual advice to cond&nned prison ers in the death bouse of Sing Sing prison. Mrs. Field has been conducting a Bible class at Sing Sing prison for twenty years. The smallest grandmother in the world is Mrs. Minnie Myers of Fort Myers. Fla., who is seventy-five years old. She is twenty-seven and a half inches tall and weighs thirty-two pounds. She has lk-en the mother three children, the daughter with whom she now lives being a woman of average height. Mrs. Myers spends most of her time with her two grandchildren.