Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1909 — John Lesh Captured On His Fortieth Birthday. [ARTICLE]

John Lesh Captured On His Fortieth Birthday.

Neighbors to the number of seventy gathered with baskets of things to eat at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Lesh, north of Rensselaer, on the Henry Grow farm, Sunday, and without letting John knqw they were coming, took possession of the home and broke the news to him that it was his fortieth birthday. They had a big dinner and a happy time, all sitting down at once to a long table set in the yard. Uncle Bill N. Jones was present and kept the crowd jolly by an occasional ten strike of wit.