Birthday Party - 1900

SPRAGUE, LADD, HOWARD

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 8/28/2011 at 09:38:06

It was a merry party that assembled
at the home of W. W. Sprague, east of
town last Thursday to celebrate with
him the seventy-ninth birthday of his
sister, Mrs. Mary Ladd, of Letcher, S. D.,
who is spending the winter with
friends and relatives. Nephews and
nieces came with well filled baskets
and "Aunt Mary" received substantial
tokens of the high esteem in which she
is held. Mrs. Aaron Howard presented
a beautiful birthday cake appropriately
inscribed. Mrs. Ladd with her
husband were among the earliest settlers
here. Removing from here to
Grove Hill and later to South Dakota.
"Meetings like this are rare this side
of heaven" and all went home after a
day most happily spent, feeling that it
was good to have been there.

Oelwein Register - 7 March 1900