Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-10-16
Tribute to q w Worthy Citizen.

Richard F. Hoy, a brother of VIM. r
Hoy and Mrs. J. Mallon of this city ant
T. g. Hoy of Keystone, died recently
The Detroit Times, in an editorial pays
him the following tribute.
Richard F. Hoy is dead.
Let's call him "Dick" for he called
everybody else George" and "Henry'
and tom" and "Jim."
That was the nature of the Detroitei
whose life closed this morning after 9
struggle in which Our hopes were raised
and lowered until the end came.
1t was nature that was good to meet
and the world would be better place
to live in were there more Of its kind.
A nature that carries smile for fel
low man and a cheering word for the
fellow who is down.
A nature that lifts up the fellow whose
path has proven too full of thorns, thai
shows him the riffs in the clouds and
lets the sunshine come breaking through
without a word in appreciation o.
such nature, "Dick" Hoy would 60 tc
the last home of earth without his due.
'Dick" Hoy was business man.
In business hours he was tailor and
a tailor until the key was turned in the
front door of his store at the close of the
day.
But all work and no play made Jack
dull boy in his eyes, and the socia
side saw probably as much of him, il
not more, than any other citizen of De
troit.
He was peculiarly fitted for the ban
quet board, for the social session or fol
just few moments among men.
A hearty hand clasp, a smile that cap
tivated, a joke and a good story were
always forthcoming and made him wei
come and favorite everywhere he was
known.
His were qualities, too, that not only
kept himself young but made others
young, if only for the hour.
Though he was approaching three
score when so suddenly stricken down
he was yet boy and in his face and
manner and speech there was the fresh
ness and glow of youth.
There are men sitting close to their
desks today and bringing themselves moi
only to early graves, but to life's enc
without getting one-third the fun there
is in it for them.
They dwell too long and too regularly
on the too-serious side.
There are smiles for them they will no
accept, and there are smiles which Others
never get from them.
Business is business, it's true.
All men must work, for no man eve
yet was successful nor happy withou
work.
The most miserable man in the worlt
is the man without responsibility.
To be idle in itself becomes eventual!
the hardest task of any man.
But there are Incorporate workers
workers who do not play enough.
They fail to get oyer often enough OF
the lighter side, to get among men t.
swap a story or a boyhood experience
and get young for the time being.
These men carry wry faces and the!
meet wry faces.
Life becomes a humid for then
and for them who meet them.
And very soon they 60 to make thei
bed in the earth.
And when such a man dies, peopl
will say, II never heard of him."
How very few will say that of Die
Hoy.
He was not public man in the tru
sense.
He never held public Office, though al
he would have had to do was to name
had he cared for office.
His picture was seldom in the news
papers, and yet he was a man widel
known in all circles over the city.
He was known because of that rar
nature of which we have spoken and t
which none need introduction.
Because when he was addressed a
"Mr. Hoy" he demanded in the future
be changed to "Dick."
He was known because he didn't liv
for himself alone. but for others.
Because wherever he found himsel
he was bound he was going to enjoy him
self and that everybody else had a goo
time.
He entered into the fun after bushes
was over.
He refused to take life too seriously.
And now that the cold hand has bee
heavily laid, come those who met tb
friendly clasp; who heard the stories b
used to tell; who heard the heart
laugh at "good one;" who felt the en-
couraging slap of his hand on the bach
to look upon the handsome face and say
81 knew him we'll"
An estimable and beloved citizen, al
unselfish man. minister to other men
causing them to forget the while tn
darker view while he held up the brigh
side and the roster colors-they kne'
"Dick" Hoy for that.
Business is picking up. Friday tn
train brought in so many cars there wa