The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-11-15
GEO. MONTGOMERY AT REST.
Hundreds OF People Paw Respect TO His
Memory at the Funeral IN the Opera
House Last Saturday.

embeF ?, arrived in GOOdIand Saturday
morning at lis O'Clock, accompanied
by A B. Montgomery and Mrs. Mont
gomery, the father and the wife of the
deceased, and Mrs Montgomery's faith
er, William Walker, Sr, and Miss Kate
Walker. The party was met at the de-
pot by friends and the body was taken
to the home of r J. Jones. Mrs. a B.
Montgomery and son, Frank and wife,
arrived from Denver on a later train.
The funeral was held at the opera
house Saturday afternoon at two
O'Clock and all business houses were
closed. Hundreds crowded the large
hall to pay respect to the memory of
one they knew so well, and it was a
spontaneous manifestation of the es-
TEEN in which George Montgomery was
held. Mrs. Montgomery is past presi-
dent Of the local Woman's Relief Corps
and the organization attended in body
As the casket was borne into the hall
by G. II. Lee, J P. Cullen, William Wal
ker, Jr-, E. f. Young, j. NJ. Jewell and
James BAN bridge, the Organist played
a dead march Beautiful floral offer
ings we're placed upon the casket, the
most striking being a little satchel
of flowers sent by the local council of
Commercial Travellers of Mason City.
The choir then rendered the an
them, "Nearer My Home" and Rev.
Stevens. OF the Christian church, read
from Revelations . and I Corinthians,
ID; the choir folio wing with Nearer
My God to Thee" After a short prayer
the choir sang at Is Not Death to Die"
Rev. Stevens selected several texts for
the basis Of his sermon-"Her Son Is
Gone Down While it Is Yet Day, lathe
Maid Is Not Dead But Sleepeth," and
'YOung Man, I Say Unto Thee Arise
AS a closing hymn the choir sang Il
Would Not Live Always" A large
number of people followed in the pro
cessiOn to the GOodland cemetery,
where interment was made.
George L Montgomery was born in
GAINESVILLE, No, December 8, 1870, and
was drowned in Clear Lake, near Mas
on City, Ia, November 2, 1901 He
spent the greater part of his school
days in GoodIand. coming here in 1886
with his father. After leaving school
he studied law and was admitted TO
the bar July 3, 1895. After practising
law here three years he secured a posi-
ton with the Plano Manufacturing
company as collector in 1898. He rose /
steadily In the esteem o his employers
and was general agent for Iowa with
headquarters in Mason City at the
time Of his death. He was married to
Miss Rachel Walker, of Goodland, June
z, 1899. He leaves a wife and infant
child, father, mother aud one broth
er. He was a member of the United
Commercial Travellers and carried &C.
600 insurance in the order.
Rev. stevens Funeral Grafton.
In the funeral Grafton Rev Stevens
said in part:
"Friends, we are called again to as
semble to speak the sympathetic word, /
to read the cOnsOling messages from
the work of God; and then silently go
to the quiet city of the dead, and with
loving hands and sorrowful hearts, low
er into the earth the body of our friend
and loved one whose soul has left its
tenement of clay and the cares, disap- /
pointments and heartaches of this
world to go at the command of God to
that bourne from whence no traveller
returns.
"As we approach the throne Of grace
and listen to the voice of God, We may
come with the assurance that when We
are called to walk through the valley
of the shadow of death God will be with
Us and listen to our every cry.
HYour attention is invited TO the fol
lowing passages from the word of God:
Her sun is gone done while it is yet
day. The maid is not dead, but sleep
eth young man, I say unto thee, arise
"The going down of the sun is not its
extinction. What We call death is the
disengaging of an immortal tenant
from its house of clay. The setting
sun is rising somewhere, setting to US
but rising IN other chimes. So the
night and sleep of death is the morn,
the awakening of the soul in fairer
chimes.
SLife is as the sun. Destroy it and
there would be the darkness of obi
Won. Only God can destroy what He
has made. Science teaches as that
nothing is destroyed. Everything per-
sists. Aud il matter and force endure,
so shall reason, love, joy and hope. Life
is measured by moments, days and
years, by each rising and setting sun
The sun gilds the eastern horizon,
then scars to the zenith, and in de-
elining to the place Of its going down