Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-22
PAIL BEARERS ARE
ALL employees
MEN WHO WORK AT PACKING
HOUSE WILL CARRY EMPLOY.
Err TO GRAVE.
BANKS WILL CLOSE
suspend Business During Funeral;
Was Organizer Of Commercial
Association and
Director.
BANKS WILL CLOSE

employees of the Morrell Packing
Go. will serve as pail bearers at the
! funeral Of Thomas D. Foster Thurs,
| day afternoon The services will be
private and Rev. r. Ames Montgomery
Of st. Louis with Rev. w. H. HORNED
| or Wichita, Kas., will be in charge.
| Doctors Montgomery and HORNED are
former Ottumwans, the latter having
been minister of the East End Pres
byterian church, of which the dece-
dent was a member, and the former
was pastor of the First Presbyterian
church until last fall
The choir Of the First Presbyterian
church will furnish the music at the
funeral service and the interment will
be in Ottumwa cemetery. The pail
bearers selected from men in the vari-
Gus departments at the packing house
are the following:
Ernest Manns, T.tG McElroy, p R..
Holloway, H. w. Davis. Lyle Mosher
and Michael Moffitt.
A large number of friends from out
OF the city are expected here Thurs
day to be present at the funeral ser
vices
Hundreds of friends in Ottumwa are
today viewing the remains which lie
in state at the Foster home During
the entire afternoon and evening the
body may be viewed by friends. The
local and branch plants as we'll as the
various offices Of the Morrell Co.
throughout the world will be closed
throughout the entire day Thursday
The banks Of Ottumwa will all close
n
r Business Will Suspend.
The board of directors of the Retail
Merchants association in meeting
this afternoon ordered that all Of the
members of the association close their
stores If possible during the hour from
2:30 until $3.50 o'clock Thursday after
noon out of respect to T. D. Foster.
whose funeral services will be held at
that time.
The Commercial association, Ottum-
wa jobbers and the Ottumwa Manufac-
turer's association has also requested
its members to close their plants and
places of business during the hour Of
the Foster funeral, 2:30 until $3.50
o'clock Thursday afternoon
The Y. NJ. G. A. will close for an
hour during the Foster funeral
Was an Organizer.
Thomas d. Foster was one of the
organizers of the Commercial associ-
alton and also one of its most active
and jealous members. Although he
declined its presidency, he
served in some official capacity with
in the association almost its entire
life. When the association came into
being November 6, 1902. almost thir-
teen years ago, it was T. D. Foster
who presided at the organization
Proposed for the presidency
of the association, he declined to run
and when elected over his protest, he
again declined but did accept the vice
presidency and served continuously as
a director until 1912, when upon re-
quest to be relieved because Of the
press Of his business interests, his
wishes were reluctantly respected.
Craftsmanship and service on various
committees during the life OF the as
ISOLATION was frequent for Mr.. Eos
ter. A testimonial of his service to
the association and its regard for him
is in the making by committee ap-
pointed by the directors at the weekly
luncheon Tuesday,