The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1915-09-22
|CHAS.J. Kelsey DIES
/ FROM ATTACK Of
TYPHOID
Popular and Prominent Business
Man succumbs After Short Ill
ness---Body Taken Fast.

Charles Jesse Kelsey, general
manager Of the Churchill County
Creamery. Inc, aud other Wingfield
Interests in this county. passed away
last Friday night about Il o'clock.
lie had been i'll with typhoid pneu-
monia for something over week
and from the first but little hope
was held out by the attending ply
sicians for his recovery, although
every resource of medical science
was exhausted in the effort to save
| his life
The sudden death OF Mr.. I1eisey
has probably caused a deeper shock
to this community and more wide
spread feeling of sorrow than any
death that has occurred here in re-
cent years. He was young man in
tthe prime Of life, fully equipped by
| training and experience to handle
| large affairs. He was young man
of unusual business ability and was
generally recognized as in that class
by the entire business element of
| this unity.
Three years ago as Secretary of
the Churchill County Fair he practi-
cally alone and unassisted carried
through one of the most successful
Fairs this county ever had. The
manner in which he conducted this
Fair brought him to the favorable
attention of Hon. Geo. Wingfield and
led to the founding of the Churchill
County Creamery with Mr.. Kelsey in
full charge of its affairs.
The phenomenal success of the
Churchill County Creamery is due
in very large measure to the un-
tiring efforts and business ability
shown by Mr.. Kelsey and at the time
of his death he was representing an
investment that had grown to the
neighborhood of $250,d0000 and
had become the principal industry
of Churchill County and the City of
Fallon. 1t is generally felt through
out the community that his death
will be a great setback to this grow
ing industry and his place will be
hard to fill as he had the confidence
of the farmers as we'll as the mer-
chants.
As a member of the Churchill
County Chamber OF Commerce he
| was known and generally recognized
as one of its most useful and able
members. He gave his services free
| Iy hea easied upon and was always
Consulted aIe Was a determining
force in the settlement of@hearly all
of the affairs of a public nature that
was brought before it. As a MEM
ber of the State Fair Association
this year he was placed in charge of
the stock exhibit by the general COM
mittee and was selected on account
of his well known executive ability
and general information in regard
! to such matters.
Charles Jesse Kelsey was born in
Monticello, Iowa. April &c, 1881, and
was educated in the public schools
| and graduated from Ames College
with the degree of B. s. in agricul-
| ture in 1905. lie then accepted q
position with the Corn Products Re-
| fning Co. as demonstrator in Wis
consin, continuing with that COM
pany until he came west to Fallon,
where, in company with W. A. Har-
dy, he purchased and lived upon a
tract of land acquired from the
Theelan ranch.
On August "a, 1910, he was united
in marriage to Anna Mary Lee at
| Fallon. The young couple lived on
the farm west of this city until Feb
ruary, 1912, when he was appointed
| Scientific Assistant at the Expert
ment farm, which position he held
until the following June. when he
| became manager OF the Churchill
County Creamery, Inc. which insti-
tuition he was largely instrumental
in organizing.
| He leaves, besides a wife and in
| fant daughter, a father and mother
| two brothers and sister in the
East. The body was shipped to
Iowa last Saturday for interment in
the family plot in his birthplace at
Monticello.