WILLIE IS DEAD.
Yonder on the snow-clad hill top, overlooking the city from the south, and close beneath the costly and handsome monument that marks the last resting place of his father, lies Willie Schoop. He has been far removed from the tearful gaze of a

Mother whose greatest ambition it was to live to see her, boy and only child blossom into the full strength and vigor of manhood. But now, that he has preceded her, the bereaved parent can find solace only in the thought that he has passed away as the morning star, only to rise again, but in a brighter world where partings never come.

After two weeks of severe suffering, Willie Schoop passed away on last Sunday at 10:00 a.m. He was born on Valentine's Day, eleven years ago the fourteenth of this month, in Manning, and lived and died in the selfsame town. The funeral, which was held on Wednesday afternoon from the home, was largely attended. Rev. Harvey of Dedham, and Rev: G.W. Wood of this city, conducted the services, which were short but impressive. Relatives present from abroad were Mr. and Mrs. F.L. Shumaker and Mr. J.G. Shumaker, Charter Oak; Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Shumaker, Council Bluffs; Mrs. S.B. Daughenbaugh, Anita. Others were Mrs. J.F. Grote and father, Westside; Mrs. H.R. Mathews, Millburn, Illinois.

Prior to his taking ill, Willie was a regular attendant at the second intermediate of the public schools, and many were his boy and girl associates. When school was dismissed for noon, on the day of the funeral, these, headed by their teacher, Miss Hattie Hall, marched in body to the home and decked the casket of their dead class mate with the choicest of flowers, which had been imported for that special purpose.