Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1902 — An Eighty-Fourth Birthday. [ARTICLE]

An Eighty-Fourth Birthday.

In honor of the 81th birthday of William W. Wiehard the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist church held their regular Deoember meeting at bis home on North Webster street Thursday afternoon. Notwithstanding the oold wave that arrived on that day the attendance was unusually large both of members and visitors The program for the day consisted of the reading of leaflets by Mrs. B. O. Gardner and Mrs. H: W. Jackson, a paper prepared by Mrs. C. H. Porter of Delphi, and read by Mrs. A. M. Stockton and an original poem by Mrs. E P. Honan. After the program a fine lunch was served, and a general social time was enjoyed. Mr. Wishard is one of our young old men and entered heartily into the spirit of the occasion. Altogether the afternoon was very pleasantly spent by those present. Many expressions of congratulation and good-will were heard and they had the ring of genuineness. Forty-four persons were present.