THE LAST ONE CALLED.
News and unwelcome news, too, has been received by friends in Manning to the effect that Lester Noble, 12 years old, died recently at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Noble, in Blanchardville, Wisconsin. For some fifteen years, prior to 1895, the Nobles lived in or near this city. The taking away of Lester makes the third and last child that the parents have been called upon to follow to the grave since 1890. Ina, a young lady of eighteen, was first to go, and then, in the summer of 1803, Otto, a young man of twenty years, was called. They both sleep side by side now in the Manning Cemetery, where the quiet is broken only by the occasional visit there of a funeral cortege or by some one who strolls out to inspect that which marks the last resting place of a departed friend. But Lester rests all alone and far remote from where lies his brother and sister. Only a few more griefs to bear and the father and mother, too, will go. It would almost seem that, in the beginning, Iona and Otto, and Lester were destined to die before entering into real life. The MONITOR, on behalf of their many friends in this section, extend to Mr. and Mrs. Noble much sympathy and hopes that the future has rich gifts in store for them.