Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-02-27
MISS ARNOLD DEAD
Blanche Arnold Expires While at a
Dance Given in Chicago Where
She Was Attending School

III am 81 glad came. 1 never en-
joyed an evening more" said Miss
Blanche Arnold daughter of H. A.
Arnold,a wealthy banker of Audu-
bon, Iowa, and student in the
Junior class of Mrs. Helen Starrett's
school for girls, as she sat Friday
night in the parlor of the Morgan
Park Military Academy gymnasium
waiting for her carriage. She had
hardly finished speaking when she
sighed and fell into the arms of Miss
Margaret Gordon of Longwood who
was sitting on the sofa beside her. 1t
was said by physicians later that she
died fundamentally.
Miss Arnold had gone out to the
residence of her class mate, Miss Cor
don in Longwood Friday afternoon.
In the evening the two girls with sew
eral friends, attended the dance given
bg the students OF the Morgan Park
Military Academy. Miss Arnold
went as the guest of Clark Sauer and
Miss Gordon as the guest of Horace
Mulnix. They will act as pail bearers
at the funeral today.
The dance ended at midnight and it
was while merry crowd of boys and
girls were waiting in the parlors for
the carriages that the tragedy oc-
Cured. Drs. William II. German and
A. w. Woods of Morgan Park were
summoned and said death was liz
stanteous. Mrs. Starrett was notified
and sent a telegram to Miss Arnold's
family.
Miss Arnold was twenty years old
and was possessed of striking beauty
She was student at Ferry Hall III
Lake Forest for three years prior to
entering Mrs. Starrett's school last
September. During all the time she
has been in Chicago she was under
treatment for organic heart trouble.
DR.. ii. B. Allen, her physician, had
counseled her to skip every other
dance but the insistence of many
youthful admirers persuaded her to
violate the DOCTORS injunction.
Her parents and her brother, Clark,
two years her junior, will reach Chi
cago this morning. Funeral services
will be conducted by Prof. 81. L..
Willett of the University of Chicago,
pastor Of the first Christian church, at
the school at 2:30 o'clock this after
noon and the body will lie taken to
Audubon for burial. The pallbearers
will be Clark Sauer and Horace Null
Mich, students at Morgan Park Mill
tary Academy and Edward McWil-
liams and Bernard Boiling of
EvAnston.-Ch Chicago Tribune.
The friends assembred at the train
Monday morning and lifted the casket
from the funeral car and conveyed it
to the family home where it laid in
state until Tuesday when short ser
vices were held at the home Tuesday
afternoon at two O'clock. A quartet
consisting of Nora 1. Brown, soprano;
AIRS. w. w. Smith, alto; w. ".
Smith, tenor; Don Drake, basso, sang
''Jesus Lover of my Soul" favorite
song Of Miss Arnold's, with Martha
Dunn presiding at the piano. DR..
ID. q. Mcintosh then read the Scrip
,ure reading followed by prayer. A
few remarks were made and the fol-
lowing obituary was read:
Blanche Arnold was born in Oma-
he, Nebraska, May Z, 1887. In 1896
with her parents, she removed to Au.
dubon, Iowa, which has since been
her home. Here she grew to woman.
hood, receiving the advantages first
of a private, then Of the public school,
During the years 1906, I, and s she
attended school, first at Lake Forest
aud later a ladies' school in Chicago
Illinois, where, had she lived, she
would have graduated next year
She departed this life in Chicago on
February 22d, 1908, aged 20 yrs. 8 mo
Is days. She leaves behind, bel
father and mother, her brother, MIR
Clark Arnold, a grandmother and 9
large circle of relatives and friends tt
mourn her early loss.
Miss Arnold was young woman
greatly loved by all who knew her
In her home town when the sad news
of her death arrived on Saturday
morning the manifestations of grie
were evident on every side. The
reason for the general sorrow is moi
far to seek. Hers was singularly
unoelfish nature, far removed from al
that sayors of pride and axcfusiveness