ATTAINS 90TH BIRTHDAY. Whittemore, Mar. 21 — Mrs. Ursula Ebert, who lives with her son, Carl, southeast of town, celebrated her 90th birthday Friday, St. Patricks Day. A three-course luncheon was served to friends who called. Decorations were green and white, with a bouquet of snapdragons and jonquils as a centerpiece. Mrs. Ebert received many gifts. Mrs. Leo Swanson played the guitar and sang, and the Rev. A. H. Wood spoke and sang a solo.
Grandma Ebert is still active, always up and around, and waits on herself, an interesting talker, her mind being alert.
The aged pioneer was born March 17, 1843, at Alexander, Ohio. Shen she was a young woman she visited a married sister in Illinois and met Mr. Ebert. They were soon married, and Mr. Ebert came to Kossuth and took up a homestead on the present site of Lone Rock. He also bought 160 acres of land at $1 an acre.
Later Mr. Ebert sold the quarter, relinquished the 80 acres, came to Whittemore, and took up the eighty southeast of town which Carl, a son, now owns. This was in 1866. Two years later Mrs. Ebert joined her husband.
The experiences of Mrs. Ebert are almost like a story. She has often told of the old-time bare prairies here, with no neighbors for miles, with plenty of wolves roaming the country. Whittemore wasn’t in existence, and Algona was a struggling village.
Mr. and Mrs. Ebert reared a girl whose parents had died. She later married and moved to South Dakota. Mr. Ebert died many years ago, and the widow has ever since made her home with Carl. There are two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Bailey, Dodge Center, Minn., and Mrs. Hattie Bailey, Charles City.
Helping Grandma Ebert celebrate her birthday were: Mr. and Mrs. George Hackman, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Geigel, Mrs. Gilbert Sheppard, Mrs. Ernest Godfredson, Ernest Neuman, Dorothy Neuman, and Mrs. Blanche Caldwell, all of Algona; the Rev. and Mrs. Wood, Good Hope; Mrs. Jane Crawford, Mrs. O. H. Roupe, Mrs. George Schultz, Mrs. Henry Schultz, Edna Schultz, Mrs. Ray Carlisle, Mrs. Nick Redding, daughter Mary Jane, Mrs. H. W. Geelan, Mrs. R. H. Finell, Mrs. Harvey Simpson, Mrs. Alice Reimers, Mrs. Elmo Barber, and Mrs. L. W. Swanson, all of Whittemore.