Death of Mrs. Peter Petersen.
Died, at her home four miles northwest of town, Tuesday morning, Sept. 10, 1907, Mrs. Peter Petersen, Brights Disease being the immediate cause of her death. Her death came as a shock to her family and friends, as this wife and mother was only in the noonday of life, 28 years of age, and leaves a husband and five small children, the youngest only two days old, the oldest 9 years. Doctor Williams was called and did everything that medical skill and science could do to help her, but without avail, and at an early hour Tuesday morning, after only two days sickness, surrounded by her family and many friends, her spirit left the tired body and returned to God who gave it. Miss Secelia Bohnsack was born Washington Township twenty-eight years ago, and was married eleven years ago to Peter Petersen, and has made her home here ever since. She was a member of the Lutheran Church, and her friends testify to her Christian character. Her devotion as a wife and mother will long linger as a fragrant memory in the home which her presence brightened and which death has now darkened.

Vain is any attempt to measure the loss of a mother to her children. After all the poets have sung and lovers dreamed, outside of heaven there is no love like a mother's love. Death is ever sad, but it is inexpressibly sad when it takes from us the young mother from her little ones. We know not at this time for whom our hearts go out the most in sympathy, for the young mother called to give up life when life was most worth living, or for the bereaved and lonely husband, who is left with the care of five motherless children.

May the peace that passeth all understanding come to them from One who cares for each little sparrow that falls.

The funeral services will be held tomorrow, Friday, at her home, at 1 o'clock, conducted by Rev. Krog, of the Lutheran Church of Manilla, and the remains will be laid to rest beside her little son in the Manning Cemetery.

Our hearts go out in sympathy to the bereaved husband.

The floral tributes are many and beautiful, sent by kind friends.