MRS. BINGHAM, 77, DIES HERE

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD MONDAY AT 1:30 P. M. AT THE COOK FUNERAL HOME FOR MRS. AMANDA BINGHAM, 77. SHE HAD DIED AT 9:30 A. M. SATURDAY AT THE FAIRBURY HOSPITAL.

SHE SUFFERED A STROKE LAST WEDNESDAY. SERVICES WERE HELD AT 2 P.M. AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND BURIAL WAS AT GRACELAND CEMETERY.

MRS. BINGHAM WAS BORN MAY 11, 1883, AT ROSENBERG, TEXAS. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. HERBERT BLOHM. ON SEPTEMBER 6, 1908, SHE WAS MARRIED TO EDWARD B. BINGHAM IN GALVESTON, TEXAS. THE COUPLE JOURNEYED TO FAIRBURY SHORTLY AFTER THEIR MARRIAGE.

HE DIED IN 1911. MRS. BONGHAM LIVED IN PEORIA AND CALIFORNIA DURING A PERIOD IN HER LIFE, BUT RE TURNED TO FAIRBURY IN AUGUST TO LIVE WITH MISS MARY KILGUS.

SURVIVING IS A SISTER, MRS. ANNA MISER, CONCORD, CALIF. A SON PRECEDED HER IN DEATH. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

MRS. ANNA DEMLER

ANNA KELLER, ONE OF A FAMILY OF TEN CHILDREN, WAS BORN IN ZURICH, SWITZERLAND, NOVEMBER 17, 1845. SHE RECEIVED HER EDUCATION IN THE SCHOOLS OF HER NATIVE LAND. WHEN ABOUT 27 YEARS OF AGE, AFTER THE DEATH OF HER FATHER, SHE CAME TO AMERICA WITH HER MOTHER, SISTERS AND BROTHERS, MAKING HER HOME IN FAIRBURY.

SHE WAS MARRIED TO WILLIAM DEMLER IN INDIAN GROVE TOWNSHIP IN 1878. OF THE SEVEN CHILDREN WHO WERE BORN TO THEM, TWO PRECEDED HER IN DEATH: MRS. EMMA WAHL, WHO PASSED AWAY APRIL 17, 1917, AND ANNA, WHO DIED IN INFANCY. THOSE SURVIVING ARE: WILLIAM DEMLER, OF COMPTON, CALIF.; MRS. LOUISE HALLOCK, OF FAIRBURY; SAMUEL A. DEMLER, OF FAIRBURY, AND BENJAMIN AND ERNEST DEMLER, BOTH OF LONG BEACH, CALIF. SHE IS SURVIVED BY A BROTHER AND SISTER, ALBERT KELLER, OF OAKLAND, CALIF., AND MRS. ELIZA ZELLER, OF CISSNA PARK. BESIDES THESE THERE ARE TWENTY GRANDCHILDREN AND ONE GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

ON DECEMBER 9, 1923, SHE WAS CALLED UPON TO MOURN THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND WHILE THEY WERE SPENDING THE WINTER IN CALIFORNIA AT THE HOME OF THEIR SON, WILLIAM H. DEMLER. SOON AFTER, SHE RETURNED TO FAIRBURY AND HAS SINCE MADE HER HOME WITH HER SON, S. A. DEMLER.

IN THE LATTER PART OF LAST OCTOBER SHE SUSTAINED A FALL RESULTING IN INJURIES WHICH CONFINED HER TO HER BED. SHE WAS TENDERLY CARED FOR AND MADE AS COMFORTABLE AS POSSIBLE UNTIL DEATH CLAIMED HER ON THE MORNING OF FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1928, AT THE AGE OF 82 YEARS, 1 MONTH AND 26 DAYS.

GRANDMA DEMLER WAS AN ESTEEMED AND FAITHFUL MEMBER OF THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD SUNDAY AT THE LOCAL AMISH CHURCH AND HER BODY LAID TO REST IN GRACELAND CEMETERY. DURING HER ILLNESS SHE WAS A CHEERFUL AND PATIENT SUFFERER, SUSTAINED BY A STEADFAST FAITH IN HER SAVIOUR. SHE POSSESSED THE STURDY QUALITIES OF WOMANHOOD WHICH FITTED HER FOR LIFE IN A NEW COUNTRY. SHE WAS A LOVING AND FAITHFUL MOTHER AND A KIND FRIEND TO ALL.

AMONG THOSE WHO ATTENDED THE FUNERAL FROM A DISTANCE WERE: MR. AND MRS. ALBERT KELLER, MR. AND MRS. EDWARD KELLER AND DAUGHTER GRACE, MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM KELLER AND DAUGHTER LOIS, MR. AND MRS. JOHN KELLER, MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM KELLER, CHARLES KELLER, MRS. JACOB KELLER AND SON JACOB, MR. AND MRS. CLARENCE HERMAN AND HENRY HERMAN, AND MR. AND MRS. MATT LEHMAN, MISS ANNA MANCHOTT, ALL OF PEORIA; MR. AND MRS. EDWARD KELLER, OF WOLCOTT, IND.; MR. AND MRS. VERCLER AND SON, OF BUCKLEY, AND MRS. ELIZA KELLER, MR. AND MRS. LEE KELLER, MR. AND MRS. HARRY HAZELBRINK, OF CISSNA PARK; MR. AND MRS. CLARENCE MUNSON, OF PONTIAC.

MRS. ELIZABETH GOETZ

MRS. ELIZABETH GOETZ, WHO FOR MANY YEARS HAS BEEN A RESIDENT OF THIS VICINITY, PASSED AWAY WEDNESDAY MORNING AT THE G. TYLER HOME ON NORTH FOURTH STREET AT THE AGE OF 86 AND 17 DAYS.

THE DECEASED WAS BORN IN DUBENDORF, SWITZERLAND, FEBRUARY 20, 1837. SHE GREW TO YOUNG WOMANHOOD IN HER NATIVE COUNTRY AND THERE SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO JACOB GOETZ. LATER THEY CAME TO THIS COUNTRY AND FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS THEY LIVED NEAR MCDOWELL, WHERE MR. GOETZ OPERATED THE STONE QUARRY. IN 1894 THEY REMOVED TO THIS CITY, WHERE MRS. GOETZ HAD SINCE RESIDED. MR. GOETZ PASSED AWAY A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD THIS AFTERNOON AT 2 O’CLOCK FROM THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH. INTERMENT WILL BE IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

SUFFERER PARALYTIC STROKE

MRS. MICHAEL FARNEY OF THIS CITY, SUFFERED A PARALYTIC STROKE SUNDAY MORNING ABOUT 2:00 O’CLOCK. HER ENTIRE BODY WAS PARALYZED AND SHE WAS UNCONSCIOUS. TUESDAY AFTERNOON SHE RECOVERED SLIGHTLY, BUT TUESDAY NIGHT SHE SUFFERED ANOTHER STROKE.

HENRY BOLLIGER

HENRY BOLLIGER, AN OLD AND RESPECTED RESIDENT OF THIS CITY, DIED VERY SUDDENLY WHILE SITTING IN HIS CHAIR AT HIS HOME IN THIS CITY MONDAY, AUG. 24, AGED 72 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AND 16 DAYS. MR. BOLLIGER HAD BEEN AILING FOR SOMETIME, BUT WAS FEELING AS WELL AS USUAL PREVIOUS TO HIS DEATH AND WAS ABLE TO BE UP TOWN MONDAY. HIS DAUGHTER, ANNA, WHO KEPT HOUSE FOR HIM STEPPED OUT ON AN ERRAND MONDAY AND RETURNING A FEW MOMENTS LATER FOUND HER FATHER DEAD.

HENRY BOLLIGER WAS BORN IN SWITZERLAND, JAN. 8, 1936, AND WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO ELIZABETH MUELLER IN THEIR NATIVE COUNTRY IN 1861. EIGHT CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THIS UNION TWO OF WHOM DIED IN INFANCY: THOSE LIVING ARE LOUISE FULDMAN OF PORTIAN, ORE., ELIZABETH ISCH OF MONROE, IND., LYDIA SCHARLACH OF RANKIN, H. G. BOLLIGER OF FRANCESVILLE, IND., AND JOHN AND ANNA OF FAIRBURY.

THE DECEASED WAS A MAN HIGHLY RESPECTED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM FOR HIS HONESTY AND INTEGRITY. HIS WIFE PRECEDED HIM TO THE BETTER LAND SEVERAL YEARS AGO. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD WEDNESDAY, AUG. 26, AT THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH, REV. WM. SCHMIDT OF EUREKA OFFICIATING AND WERE LARGELY ATTENDED MANY BEING PRESENT FROM A DISTANCE. THE REMAINS WERE LAID TO REST IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY. THE FAMILY AND RELATIVES HAVE THE SYMPATHY OF ALL.

KATIE MEISTER

KATIE MEISTER WAS BORN IN BADEN, GERMANY, MARCH 1, 1875. SHE CAME TO THE UNTIED STATES WITH HER SISTER, MRS. MAT KAMMERER AND BROTHER, MIKE, IN MARCH, 1892, GOING FIRST TO OHIO, WHERE SHE LIVED UNTIL 1893, WHEN HER FATHER, WHO HAD COME TO AMERICA, DIED AND SHE CAME TO ILLINOIS WHERE SHE HAS SINCE LIVED WITH THE EXCEPTION OF A FEW MONTHS SHE LIVED IN INDIANA AND OHIO.

SHE WENT TO OHIO IN APRIL TO VISIT HER BROTHER AND WHILE THERE WAS STRICKEN WITH APPENDICITIS AND DIED AFTER AN OPERATION. THE REMAINS WERE BROUGHT TO FAIRBURY, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AND SUNDAY AFTERNOON THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH, REV. ROBERT BAHLER OF REMINGTON, IND., OFFICIATING. A LARGE NUMBER OF FRIENDS WERE PRESENT FROM OUT OF TOWN, CISSNA PARK, PEORIA, GRIDLEY, REMINGTON, IND., MILFORD, IND., AND OTHER POINTS BEING REPRESENTED.

THE DECEASED WAS A GOOD WOMAN AND A GOOD CHRISTIAN AND HER FRIENDS WERE MANY. DURING HER LIFE IN FAIRBURY SHE HAD MADE MANY FRIENDS, WHO DEEPLY MOURN HER DEATH. SHE LEAVES TO MOURN HER DEATH HER MOTHER, OF THIS CITY; SIX SISTERS, MARY SCHMIDT, MRS. M. KAMMERER, MRS. MAT RAPP, MISS CARRIE MIESTER OF THIS CITY AND MRS. SOL OBERGFELDT AND MISS PAULINE MIESTER OF MILFORD, IND., JOHN AND CARL MIESTER OF FAIRBURY, MARTHA OF ELMIRA, OHIO, MIKE EMIL AND LEO OF MILFORD, IND.

THE INTERMENT TOOK PLACE IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY. THE BEREAVED RELATIVES HAVE THE SYMPATHY OF ALL.

MRS. CHRISTIAN KAMMERER

MRS. CHRISTIAN KAMMERER, SR., PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME IN THIS CITY SUNDAY, SEPT. 19, AFTER AN ILLNESS OF FOUR WEEKS, HER AGE BEING BUT A FEW DAYS LESS THAN 73 YEARS.

MARIA IOOS WAS BORN IN BADEN, GERMANY, OCT. 6, 1836. SHE GREW TO WOMANHOOD AND WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE THERE TO MR. CHRISTIAN KAMMERER. THEY RESIDED IN BADEN UNTIL THEIR COMING TO THE UNITED STATES, JULY, 1883. THEY CAME DIRECT TO FAIRBURY AND HAVE SINCE RESIDED HERE. FOUR CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THEM, ALL OF WHOM ARE LIVING. THEY ARE AS FOLLOWS: MATHIAS, ANNA, CHRISTINA ZEHR AND CHRISTIAN, JR., ALL RESIDING AT FAIRBURY. THESE, TOGETHER WITH THE BEREAVED HUSBAND AND NUMEROUS FRIENDS, MOURN HER DEATH.

MRS. KAMMERER WAS A WOMAN HIGHLY ESTEEMED BY HER FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS. SHE DID HER FULL DUTY BY HER HUSBAND AND CHILDREN AND WAS ALWAYS READY TO RENDER ASSISTANCE TO THOSE IN TROUBLE. SHE HAD LONG BEEN A MEMBER OF THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF THIS CITY AND WAS A FAITHFUL ATTENDANT AT THE SERVICES.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD FROM THAT CHURCH SUNDAY AFTERNOON, REV. JOHN WITZIG, OF MACKINAW, OFFICIATING AND WAS ATTENDED BY A LARGE CONCOURSE OF PEOPLE, FRIENDS BEING PRESENT FROM GRIDLEY, CLAYTONVILLE, CISSNA PARK, REMINGTON, IND., WOLCOTT, IND., AND PEORIA. THE REMAINS WERE LAID TO REST IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY, THE BEREAVED FAMILY HAVE THE SYMPATHY OF ALL.

NO OBITUARY

FRED KOEHL

THE REMAINS OF FRED KOEHL, OF LAMAR, MO., WHO RESIDED ON A FARM SOUTH OF THIS CITY FOR THIRTEEN YEARS, WERE BROUGHT TO FAIRBURY WEDNESDAY FOR INTERMENT. THE FUNERAL PARTY WAS EXPECTED AT 9 A. M., WEDNESDAY, BUT MISSED THE TRAIN AT KANSAS CITY AND CAME BY THE WAY OF THE SANTA FE TO STREATOR, WHERE THEY EXPECTED TO CATCH THE WABASH TRAIN, ARRIVING HERE AT 11:25, BUT THE SANTA FE WAS LATE AND THEY MISSED THAT TRAIN. A SPECIAL TRAIN WAS RUN FROM FORREST TO STREATOR AND THE FUNERAL PARTY ARRIVED HERE AT 2:45 P. M. THE REMAINS WERE CONVEYED TO THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF WHICH THE DECEASED WAS AN HONORED MEMBER AND THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD THERE, REV. MIKE MANGOLD OF ROANOKE, OFFICIATING.

FRED KOEHL WAS BORN IN ALSACE, LORRAINE, GERMANY. JULY 28, 1852. HE CAME TO AMERICA IN 1873, AND FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS MADE HIS HOME IN WOODFORD AND TAZEWELL COUNTIES. HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS MARY STEFFEN AT ROANOKE, AUG. 1878, AND IN 1888 THEY CAME TO FAIRBURY, TAKING UP THEIR RESIDENCE ON THE FARM NOW OWNED BY J. B. SCHERTZ. TEN CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THIS UNION, ONE DYING IN INFANCY. THE REMAINING CHILDREN ARE AS FOLLOWS: MRS. DAVID ROTH OF LAMAR, MO., FRED AND CHRIS OF LESTER, IA., JOHN OF FAIRBURY, ANDREW, HENRY, MARY AND EMMA OF LAMAR, MO. THESE WITH THE BEREAVED WIFE AND ONE BROTHER IN FAIRBURY, TOGETHER WITH MANY FRIENDS, MOURN HIS DEATH.

IN THE SPRING OF 1901 THE DECEASED WITH HIS FAMILY MOVED TO LAMAR, MO. WHERE HE RESIDED UNTIL HIS DEATH. THE DECEASED WAS A MAN OF STERLING CHRISTIAN CHARACTER AND THE ESTEEM IN WHICH HE WAS HELD WAS TESTIFIED AT THE FUNERAL SERVICES WHICH WERE ATTENDED BY HUNDREDS OF FRIENDS AND FORMER NEIGHBORS. OVER ONE HUNDRED FRIENDS CAME FROM A DISTANCE, GRIDLEY, ROANOKE, MORTON, PEORIA PEOPLE FILLING A SPECIAL CAR ON THE EAST BOUND TRAIN WHILE A LARGE NUMBER CAME FROM CISSNA PARK, REMINGTON, AND WOLCOTT, IND. THE BEREAVED FAMILY HAVE THE SYMPATHY OF MANY FRIENDS IN THIS LOCALITY.

FRED DAERENDINGER

FRED DAERENDINGER, A WELL KNOWN GERMAN RESIDENT LIVING SOUTH OF FAIRBURY, DIED SUDDENLY AT THE HOME OF MARTIN STEIDINGER SUNDAY MORNING, AUG. 28. THE DECEASED HAD BEEN AFFLICTED WITH HEART TROUBLE FOR SOMETIME AND THIS WAS THE CAUSE OF HIS DEATH.

MR. DAERENDINGER WAS BORN IN SWITZERLAND IN 1834, AND CAME TO THE UNITED STATES IN 1870, HE HAD BEEN MARRIED, BUT HIS WIFE WAS DEAD AND HE HAD NO CHILDREN. HE WAS A GOOD CITIZEN AND AN EARNEST CHRISTIAN. THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH TUESDAY AFTERNOON, REV. GOTTLIEB HOHULIN OF GOODFIELD, ILL., OFFICIATING AND THE REMAINS WERE LAID TO REST IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY.

FREDRICKA KELLER

FREDRICKA RISSER WAS BORN IN ELASS, GERMANY, MARCH 25, 1831; DIED AT FAIRBURY, ILL., SEPT. 14, 1910, AGED 79 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AND 19 DAYS. SHE IMMIGRATED TO AMERICA IN 1861, AND WAS MARRIED TO JACOB KELLER IN 1862. TO THIS UNION WAS BORN THREE CHILDREN: JOHN DIED AT THE AGE OF 18 YEARS, JOEL DIED IN INFANCY, ONE DAUGHTER, CAROLINE, DIED AT THE AGE OF 30 YEARS. FIVE GRANDCHILDREN REMAIN TO MOURN HER DEATH, FOUR LIVING AT DUNLAP, ILL., AND ONE AT COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO.

THEY LIVED ON A FARM IN WOODFORD COUNTY UNTIL 1867, WHEN THEY MOVED TO WHERE WING NOW IS. IN 1895 THEY MOVED TO FAIRBURY WHERE MR. KELLER DIED IN 1903.

THE DECEASED WAS AN EXCELLENT WOMAN AND DURING HER LONG LIFE IN THIS CITY AN VICINITY SHE WON THE RESPECT AND FRIENDSHIP OF HER NEIGHBORS BY HER GENTLE WAYS AND EARNEST CHRISTIAN SPIRIT.

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD FROM THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON.

MARTIN MEISTER MEETS DEATH

KILLED IN A SAW MILL ACCIDENT IN FULTON COUNTY, OHIO.

MARTIN MEISTER, SON OF MRS. ERNESTEIN MEISTER, OF THIS CITY, WAS KILLED TUESDAY OF LAST WEEK IN FULTON COUNTY, OHIO, IN A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. THE DETAILS OF THE ACCIDENT ARE AS FOLLOWS:

MR. MEISTER, WITH ANOTHER MAN, WERE ENGAGED IN SAVING UP CORD WOOD WITH A SAW OPERATED BY STEAM. THE BOXING IN WHICH THE SAW RESTED HAD BEEN BROKEN AND A STRAP OF IRON HELD THE SHAFT IN PLACE. THE MEN STARTED A PARTICULARLY KNOTTY PIECE OF WOOD IN THE SAW AND WHEN THE TEETH STRUCK THE KNOT THE SHAFT SUDDENLY TORE LOOSE FROM ITS MORINGS AND THE WHIRLING SAW AND HEAVY SHAFT STRUCK MR. MEISTER AND HIS COMPANION WITH TERRIFIC FORCE. MR. MEISTER WAS STRUCK ON THE HEAD AND HIS DEATH WAS INSTANTANEOUS. THE OTHER MAN WAS STRUCK ON THE ARM AND SIDE. HIS RIGHT ARM WAS SEVERED BY THE TEETH OF THE SAW AND SEVERAL OF HIS BONES WERE BROKEN.

MARTIN MEISTER WAS BORN IN GERMANY 47 YEARS AGO. HE CAME TO THE UNITED STATES WITH HIS PARENTS WHEN 19 YEARS OLD AND HAS MADE HIS HOME IN THIS COUNTRY SINCE THAT TIME. HE LIVED IN FAIRBURY FOR SEVERAL YEARS BEFORE GOING TO OHIO, WHERE HE HAS RESIDED FOR THE PAST SEVEN YEARS. HE WAS AN HONEST, UPRIGHT CITIZEN AND LEAVES MANY FRIENDS TO MOURN HIS DEATH.

HE HAD NEVER BEEN MARRIED AND LEAVES BESIDES HIS WIDOWED MOTHER, MRS. ERNESTINE MEISTER OF FAIRBURY. SIX SISTERS AND SIX BROTHERS TO MOURN HIS SAD DEATH. THEY ARE: GEORGE MEISTER, IN GERMANY; MIKE AND EMIL, MILFORD, IND.; MRS. MARY SMITH, JOHN, CARL, LEE, MRS. MATT KAMMERER, MRS. MATT RAPP, MRS. SOL OBERGFELL AND MISSES PAULINE AND CARRIE, ALL OF FAIRBURY.

THE REMAINS WERE BROUGHT TO FAIRBURY SATURDAY, AND SUNDAY FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH, REV. SAM SLAGEL OFFICIATING. THE REMAINS WERE LAID TO REST IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY. THE BEREAVED MOTHER, BROTHERS AND SISTERS HAVE THE SYMPATHY OF ALL.

NO OBITUARY

MRS. G. H. SCHARLACH

MARY MAGDELENA LEHMAN WAS BORN AT BERNE, SWITZERLAND, JUNE 28, 1831, AND PASSED AWAY AT THE HOME OF HER SON, S. H. SCHARLACH, AT REMINGTON, IND., JUNE 12, 1920, AT THE AGE OF 88 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AND 14 DAYS.

IN 1852 SHE CAME WITH THE FAMILY TO AMERICA, THEY LOCATING IN FAYETTE COUNTY, IOWA, AND WERE AMONG THE PIONEER SETTLERS OF THAT STATE. INDIANS WERE NUMEROUS THERE AT THAT TIME AND MRS. SCHARLACH OFTEN TRADED VARIOUS ARTICLES WITH THEM. SHE CAME TO WASHINGTON, ILL., IN 1854, AND THERE IN MAY, 1856, WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO GEO. HENRY SCHARLACH. A YEAR LATER MR. AND MRS. SCHARLACH MOVED BACK TO IOWA, WHERE THEY RESIDED UNTIL 1863, WHERE THEY LIVED UNTIL 1869, WHEN THEY MOVED TO FORREST. THEY CAME TO FAIRBURY IN 1883, MR. SCHARLACH PASSING AWAY HERE 21 YEARS AGO. SIXTEEN YEARS AGO SHE WENT TO FORREST TO MAKE HER HOME WITH HER DAUGHTER, MRS. BACH, SHE WAS TAKEN ILL LAST FALL WHEN ON A VISIT TO THE HOME OF HER SON IN REMINGTON, IND., AND PASSED AWAY THERE LAST SATURDAY.

EIGHT CHILDREN WERE BORN TO MR. AND MRS. SCHARLACH, OF WHOM SIX SURVIVE, AS FOLLOWS: S. H., OF REMINGTON, IND.; D. F., OF KANKAKEE; J. P., OF LOS ANGELES, CALIF.; J. E., OF RANKIN; C. C., OF CORWITH, IOWA; AND MRS. LENA BACH, OF FORREST. TWO BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER, ALSO SURVIVE, NAMELY CHRIS LEHMAN, OF ELGIN, IOWA; NICHOLAS LEHMAN, OF STRAWBERRY POINT, IOWA, AND MRS. ANNA REINHART, OF CRESCO, IOWA.

THE REMAINS WERE BROUGHT TO THIS CITY MONDAY NOON, AND FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD FROM THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH AT 1:30 O’CLOCK. BURIAL WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

MRS. ANDREW ARMBRUSTER

CHRISTINE SCHMIDT ARMBRUSTER WAS BORN IN WURTEMBURG, GERMANY, AUGUST 1, 1851, AND DIED SATURDAY, SEPT. 4, 1920, AT HER HOME 711 EAST ELM STREET. SHE CAME TO AMERICA TO MAKE HER HOME IN 1899.

SHE LEAVES BY HER DEATH HER HUSBAND AND ELEVEN CHILDREN, AS FOLLOWS: DORA, FRED AND ANDREW, OF SYRACUSE, IND.; MRS. MIKE MEISTER, OF MILFORD, IND.; JACOB, OF BURLINGTON, OKLA.; BARBARA, OF PEORIA; MRS. HENRY PATERNOSTER, MRS. CHRIST STEIDINGER, MRS. JOHN BECKLEY, GEORGE AND ANNA, OF THIS CITY.

SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH MONDAY AFTERNOON. INTERMENT WAS MADE AT GRACELAND CEMETERY.

MRS. RUDOLPH AELLIG

ANNA BARBARA AELLIG DIED ON SUNDAY MORNING AT THE HOME OF MRS. KATE ROTH, 309 E. WALNUT STREET, WHERE FOR THE PAST FIFTEEN YEARS SHE HAD MADE HER HOME. SHE HAD BEEN AN INVALID FOR MANY YEARS.

SHE WAS BORN IN BERNE, SWITZERLAND, FEBRUARY 24, 1834, AND CAME TO AMERICA TO MAKE HER HOME IN 1887. HER HUSBAND PRECEDED HER IN DEATH IN 1882,

SHE HAS TWO SONS, JOHN, LIVING IN STRAWN AND FRED, WHO LIVES IN PEORIA.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH TUESDAY AND WERE IN CHARGE OF REV. LAIGHTHAEN, OF CHIPPEWA, OHIO.

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