From the Skidmore News (Skidmore, Missouri), September 29, 1921, page 1:
Birthday Surprise.
Mrs. Mary Howard was very pleasantly surprised last Friday when her children and her sister came in at the noon hour with well-filled baskets to help her observe her 76th birthday.
Those present were: Mrs. Eliza Bennett and son, Criss, of Hamburg, Ia.; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Busby and two children of Quitman; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Howard, and Eugene Rhoades.