THE LIGHT WENT OUT.
Never in the history of the town of Manning has the MONITOR been called upon to announce the death of one who is more mourned than Otto Noble. Just entering upon manhood, with the brightest of prospects in financial and social circles, he was stricken down and the community is downcast. Every one in Carroll and adjoining counties knew Otto Noble. He was cheerful and buoyant and was the friend of every body, and every one in return was his friend. He was the picture of health and although in a delicate condition from an operation which was performed upon him more than a year ago as a result of appendicitis (a type of bowel complaint), he did not realize his danger, and, heedlessly, did many things that he should have not. Last week on Thursday, after breakfast, he took to his bed and on Tuesday, just before seven o'clock, he gave tip the fight for life and passed to the Unknown World.

Otto was born in Mineral Point, Wis., May 25, 1870, and when he was eight years old his parents, with the rest of the family, removed to Shelby County where they lived ten years, and then came to Manning. The hotel, known as the Park, was built this season expressly for "the boy," and just after its opening he is taken away.

The funeral was held from the hotel on Wednesday, Revs. Howe and Roberts officiating, and the remains were taken in charge of by the Manning Knights of Pythias, of which order he was an honored member, and that fraternity gave a most impressive ceremony at the cemetery.

There is not a person in Manning or the surrounding territory that is not with the MONITOR in extending to the greatly afflicted father and mother their most sincere sympathy in their hour of affliction.