Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1919 — PICNICKED AT COLUMBIA PARK [ARTICLE]

PICNICKED AT COLUMBIA PARK

At Lafayette Handay—Storm There Was Very Severe. Elmer Phegley and family, Charles Phegley and Mrs. Nettie Hoover of Rensselaer, accompanied by Rmssell Winters of Chicago, who is visiting the latter, drove to Lafayette Sunday where, with five families from Monticello, they enjoyed a picnic dinner at Columbia park, given in honor of Lieut. Horace K. Heath of Monticello, a brother of Mrs. Elmer Phegley, and who had lately returned from overseas. They had a very pleasant time until the storm canne up in the afternoon, when all skedaddled to their cars and hastily put up the side-curtains to keep out the rain, which there was very heavy, almost a cloud-burst, and the wind broke down many shade trees in the city.