Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-09-05
RIVERSIDE.

Oren Joseph went to Brow
nell last Saturday on business.
Elihu Altman stayed all night
with Theo. johnson last Satur-
day night.
Riverside school commences
September seventh with Mrs.
Frank O'Neal as teacher.
Miss Philbrook passed
through here the latter part OF
last week looking after her pol
itical fences.
Ray Joseph came down from
Scott county Saturday to visit
home folks. He reports feed
looking fine in Scott county.
Miss Ida Joseph departed
last Monday for Mcpherson
county to attend the wedding of
her cousin Miss Edna Burton.
| Elihu Altman had the misfor-
tune to have forty feet of two
inch pipe fall on the back of his
hand rendering it quite useless
for some time.
1t is with sorrow that we
chronicle the death of Uncle
Billy Ryan which occurred Aug
ust Goth. He was buried at
McCracken, August %.
Miss Grace Altman writes
from West Virginia that she is
having a fine time. She may stay
a year visiting relatives in Penn
sylvania in the mean while.
IN MEMORIAM
VIM. Ryan was born June 9,
1882, died August 26, 1908, age
rs years, 2 months, II days. He
was born in Wayne county, KY.
Married to Sarah Stephens,
November Is, 1855. To this
union was born eleven children,
nine of whom are living. Mr..
Ryan moved to Iowa in 1865, to
Montgomery county, Kas., 1874,
to Mcpherson county, in 1876,
and to Rush county. in 1873. He
was engaged in the mercantile
business for number of years
in NcCracken and in 1895 he
moved to Riverside township,
Trego county. Kas., where he
resided at the time of his death.
Mr.. Ryan was a well known
man to many of those who will
read this, all who knew him
respected him.
Mr.. Ryan had been sick but a
few weeks before his death with
dropSy and heart trouble and
few days before the end came
was thought to be rapidly i'm
proving. A trained nurse who
missed and then came a turn for
the worse. Now he is gone and
nothing but a memory remains.
But such large memory it is.
Think of it.
For fifty-three years he and
his wife walked together with
out break. For fifty years he
taught his children nothing but
good principles, good morals and
honesty. His wife and a noble
family of children, three sister,
three brothers, twenty grand
children survive him to say moth
ing of other relatives, and the
hundreds of friends and acquan-
tances who remember Uncle
Billy with feelings of respect.
Everybody in his own community
will miss him and not a few can
recall some kind act that they
received from his hands, hos
pitable and generous, kind heart
ed, true to his friends and a
friend to everyone. Uncle Billy
was a great student of the Bible
and talked as one familiar with
| the Good Book. He was not
member of any lodge or church
and although not a member of
any religious organization, when
we think of the kind acts that
were delivered at his hands, of
the principles of the Good Book
which he has followed, we can
not help but believe that there
is a place in the Kingdom of
Heaven for Uncle Billy.
The funeral was held in the
United Brethren church at Nc
Cracker, Friday August, 28th,
where hundreds of friends came
to pay the last tribute of respect,
after which he was inferred into
the McCracken cemetery. Near
| ly every business house was
closed. Perhaps obituaries have
been clothed in more beaut-
| iful language than this. DerhaDS