Harry Love and Miss Temple Wiley of Switzerland County, Ind., were
married monday afternoon by Rev. R. V. Omer at the Christian
parsonage. -- Warsaw Leader.
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EDWARD E. KELSO
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May it be given unto me to weave into this brief article something
of the big, tender, unselfish and devoted mans whose intimate
friendship it has been my good fortune to possess.
I shall not do him the injustice to attribute to him virtues that
he did not possess. He is now beyond the reach of mortal hands and
"flattery cannot sooth the dull, cold ear of death". His life's story
is told and these lines are written at this time because I loved him
and because I believe he would have done as much for me.
Out of all the phases of his character that now pass before me in
review, there is one that transcends all others. His heart was big
enough to love every animate thing, and I do not believe that he ever
treasured the slightest tinge of malice toward any human being.
Misfortune, from any source wrung his soul and his heart was as tender
as a woman's.
I have been with him when he was unjustly assailed, when the
clouds were dark and I have seen him when he tasted the sweets of
victory.
But victory to him was never quite complete because he could not
and would not forget that victory for him meant defeat for others.
He possessed a most abiding faith in his fellow man. His faith and
trust in human nature never wavered.
His love for his family, for his wife and his little girls, was
his one passion. He loved every child he ever saw, and in turn always
had their firm friendship. And when in the poignancy of her own
grief, one of his own babes cried out, "Oh, papa, papa, you have been
so good to us, we will miss you so," it seemed to me that no higher
tribute could have been paid him, and that the good that he has done
will not be buried with him but will live always in the memories of
his family and his friends.
Some men are praised after they are dead because of wealth they
have accumulated or because of power and position they have attained.
When an Empror dies all his potentates bow down and mourn. All
the kingly splendor helps to make the trappings for their grief. But
in the present instance none of this avail. My friend had neither
power nor wealth.
But out of his great heart he gave a boundless love and we should
be poor clods indeed if there were no response.
What good thing can be added to the record of any man except to
say, if in truth it can be said, that he was honest, truthful,
upright, moral, a good husband and a loving father? All these things
do we say of him whom we mourn.
This country has lost a good citizen, we all have lost a stanch
and loyal friend, the world has lost one of its greatest needs - A
Man.
His live was an open book.
His memory is secure.
He rests in peace.
Wm. O.
Protsman.
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THESE NEXT TWO ARE HAND WRITTEN BY EITHER MY GRANDMOTHER, GRACE LAND,
OR HER BROTHER ULIE LAND. I INCLUDE THEM FOR THE POSSIBLE INFORMATION
THEY MIGHT IMPART.
Jackson McCreary, who has been an invalid for a long time and who
is an old soldier was taken to the soldiers home at Dayton Ohio Sunday
June 4th 1905.
Ada Land was united in the bonds of holy wedlock to Arch White of
the place on March 1st in the year of 1906.
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