The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-02-10
MALTA BUSINESS
MAN PASSES AWAY MONDAY


Mr.. Mcclellan had shown no indi-
cation of ill health and his death
was most unexpected blow to his
devoted wife and to the great host
Of friends who claimed the privilege
of "Mack's" friendship. The funeral
service will be held from the house
on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 18th,
Lincoln's birthday, at 2 O'Clock, the
Rev. L. J. Christler officiating. NAL
ia Lodge, No. 81 of Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, of which the de-
ceased was an active and honored
member, will conduct the beautiful
and impressive rites of the order
in the home, at the close of Mr..
Christler's service.
The deceased was member of
Malta Lodge No. 81, A. F. and A.
M. of R. A. M. Chapter No. II, Glas-
gov, Montana, Of Glasgow Comman-
derry K. T. No. 13, of Algeria Temple
order of the Mystic Shrine, Helena,
Montana, and of Sacajeua Chapter,
order of the Eastern Star, Malta,
Montana.
Mr.. Mcclellan is survived by his
widow, brother John Mcclellan,
sister Jean Mcclellan Smith, both
of Edinburgh, Scotland, and an
uncle, the Rev. James Potter of To-
ronto, Canada. Mrs. Eva Noles,
mother of Mrs. Mcclellan, is enroute
from Albert Lee, Mimi, and Mrs.
Eva Noyes and Miss Bernice
Noyes of Clyde Park, Mont, will be
here for the funeral.
William Mcclellan was born in
Edinburgh Scotland, on the 5th of
June 1870, and had only celebrated
his 45th birthday last June. At the
age of 8 years he moved from Edin-
hurgh to Halifax, and from thence
be subsequently came to the states
residing at Boston. and from
Boston he moved to Montana, and it
was here in the state he afterwards
grew to love with a loyal patriotism
that 'Macl1," as his legion Of friends
always genial]y addressed him, that
he celebrated his goth birthday.
1t will be seen that for more
than 20 years William Mcclellan
has been associated with the life and
growth of Malta and Northern Mon
tana. He was one of the strong and
active members of the firm of Ed
wards & Mcclellan, one of Northern
Montana's largest mercantile houses
To present the portraiture of Mr..
Mcclellan as he now reveals himself
to the memory of our citizens and
stands embodied before us in our
ceptions, would be an impossible
task, though it is one we all would
love to perform. The fact is ap-
preciated that the quiet, modest and
unostentatious life and service of
the deceased, bespeaks and reflects
that inimitable delineation of per-
sonality which is so often rare, but
which we all admire-simplicity-
that simplicity which does gracious
justice to memory The classifica-
tion OF men is very difficult task,
and yet it is one we all, almost un-
consciously perform. 1t is not SIM
ply the result of our judgment after
careful analysis of character; it
largely belongs to our intuitions.
What man is, is the final impress
sion he makes on the hearts and
lives about him, rather than what
he seems to be; his seeming may be
adroitly managed, but the instinc-
tive and necessary influence of his
real self will sooner or later tear
Off the mask.
Genuine manhood is as certain of
recognition as hypocracy is of de-
| tectlOn ana SCOrn.
1t is in making search for the
foundations of this kind of charac-
ter that we mark the essences which
shaped and sustained the life of
him to whose memory we offer our
tributes of affection today, as he
lay among us in the mystic sleep of
death; and in our summary of the
sketch, however imperfectly execut-
ed, we reflect the thought that a
strong man has fallen in our midst
Reliable and thorough in every du-
ty; true blue, wise and prudent:
unselfish in spirit and liberal in
mind; generous. but silently and of
ten in secret toward all good causes,
and especially to those in want;
modest and cheerful in bearing; a
human radium in daily intercourse
with his fellow men: he commanded
the esteem of all, and those who had
the happiness to be more intimately
associated with him loved him.
When with all these we think of
William Mcclellan as the high mind
ed public citizen who has for so
many years devoted his portion of
time and service to the promotion
of every design by which we and our
city proht today, we feel his early
death to be an irreparable loss.
AS a member of the city council
of our city his influence so widely
acknowledged, was most benefl-
cially felt. At the very moment
when his life was so really needed,
it ceased, and now we can only
stand at the side of his bier and in
the light of the Great Fathers eter-
nal verities feel in our hearts what
human speech fails to tell.
Sigrud Hansen, of the Model