The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-07-10


Hicks, aged 80 years, month and l3
days Funeral Saturday, July 5,
1918, from the late residence. Body
taken to Hedrick for interment.
Deceased was native of Ohio and
had been resident of various parts
of Iowa through period of sixty
years.
ADAMS-DYKSTRA.--In order to
surprise their many friends, Mr.. John
Adams and Miss Esther Dykstra, both
of Otley, came to the city July a. 1918,
and were quietly married at the home
of Rev Roy e. Deadman, at 8 o'clock.
They were accompanied by Mr.. Jesse
Williams and Miss Nellie Daubenbeck,
also of Otley. Mr.. Adams is a car
penter by trade and is well known in
Otley as young man of promising at
tainments. The bride is also widely
and fayorably known, and has many
friends in Otley and elsewhere. The
young couple will for the present
make their home in Otley, and their
many friends join in wishing them
the best that life affords.
ELLIS.-Funeral of the late Ollie
s. Ellis will occur from the family
home, Orchard Place" at the east
end Of Eecond avenue, Tuesday after
noon, July 8, 1913, at two o'clock p.
m. lnterment in Forest cemetery,
Oskaloosa The Ellis party with the
body OF the late Mr.. Ellis will arrive
from San Francisco via the NJ & st.
L. Ry., from Marshalltown,. at eight
o'clock this Saturday evening, July
10, 1913. .. .,. go
Business associates in this city re-
ceived today copy of Manila Daily
Bulletin" June 6, 1913, from which
the following details of Mr. Ellis sud
den death are furnished:
Doomed by destiny never to set
his foot on Philippine soil alive, after
having travelled thousands of miles
TO see what his countrymen have &C.
complished here, Mr.. o. s. Ellis, of
Denver, Colo, and Oskaloosa, Iowa,
lies dead at Quiogue's funeral parlor
on Gale Carriedo. The body will lie
in state at the funeral parlor until
eight o'clock this morning when 1t
will be taken to Pier and on board
the Pacific Mail Liner Nile on which
enroute home for burial. .- .-...
Mr.. o. s. Ellis, accompanied by his
wife and Mrs. c. w. Thompson, a
friend of the latter, had made the trip
from San FRANCISCO to Hongkong on
the Pacific mail steamer Mongolia
and boarded the Nile at the China
coast port for the return trip. He
collapsed and died suddenly at the
breakfast table yesterday, just as the
Nile was passing Corregidor enroute
to Manila. The cause of death was
heart failure. ~. g., -.
The last words he uttered were: Il
am feeling fne,' replying to a fellow
passenger who inquired into his
health as he passed the table at which
the Ellis party was breakfasting in
the steamers dining saloon.
THE words were said in a cheerful
manner, but he had hardly spoken
when he collapsed without warning
and fell to the floor before Mrs. Ellis
or Mrs. Thompson could reach him.
Death was instantaneous. and all eff
forts by DR.. John J. Smith, the ships
surgeon, and Major Peter c. Field, Of
the army medical corps who was
passenger on board the Nile, to re-
store life were in vain. Shortly af-
! ter the Nile had tied up at Pier the
body was taken to Quiogue's funeral
parlor for embalming.
! Mrs. Ellis, accompanied by Mrs.
Thompson, her travelling companion,
was taken to the Manila, Hotel, pros
trated by her husbands sudden death.
Major Field called at the hotel
several times yesterday to render
medical aid and last night the pa
tient was much improved. She will
be able to continue her journey to
San Francisco on the Nile today.
Mrs. Thompson has been constantly
at her bedside since they arrived at
the hotel" ...... &C.,. -+.