People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — A Birthday Surprise. [ARTICLE]

A Birthday Surprise.

Thos. Walters was given a gentle shock last Saturday night, by the unannounced arrival of about forty friends at his hospitable home six miles south of Rensselaer. The honored call was to celebrate the beginning of another cycle of days in the hosts of ripening years. The guests were handsomely entertained and served with an appropriate collation. Mr. Walters was made the recipient of a beautiful watch charm as a memento of the happy event.