The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1917-02-28
Aug.F. Rain Dies
Sunday Morning
Belview Banker Passes Away
After Few Hours of Illness;
Funeral Today

Funeral Today
This community was greatly
Shocked to learn that G. F. Rain
mad passed away suddenly Sun
day morning at a o'clock. He
had been around as usual on
Saturday and complained Of
nothing more severe than a
Slight cold taken while clerking
an auction sale a few days ago.
He retired at his usual hour Sat-
urday night and evidently slept
\ we'll until about twelve o'clock,
when he awoke complaining of a
chest pain but did not think it
severe enough to require a doc
tors service until near four
o'clock, when it suddenly became
worse and he died before the
doctor could respond to hur-
ried call. Mr.. Rain has had
two severe attacks Of la grippe
during the winter and it had
been noticed that he never full
ly recovered from them, being
easily tired out and somewhat
short of breath on physical ex-
ertion.
Early Life
Augustus F. Rain was born
in Sheboygan Co., Wisconsin,
September 27, 1866. He was the
son of Christian and Christina
(Kuck) Rain. He came to Red
wood County in 1884 and settled
in Redwood Falls where his faith
err purchased a farm within the
city limits.
AS young man he clerked
in various Redwood Falls stores
and, firing of that work, he pur-
chased a farm near Wood Lake
which he operated for two years
leaving it to clerk in a store in
Belview. He afterward pur-
chased the store and successful
Nv ran it for number of years
leaving the store business to
engage in the farm implement
and grain business.
In 1910 he, with others, ORR
gained the Farmers State Bank
Of Belview of which institution
he became cashier and chief
stockholder. Due to his untir-
ing efforts the bank was a sue
cess from the start and is now
in O. fourishing condition.
Every Bit a Man
Augustus F. Rain was man
in every sense of the word and
did his duty towards his fellow
men as nearly right as it was
given him to understand it. He
was never discouraged or down
cast although he, in his time,
had overcome obstacles large
enough to make most men stop,
if not turn back, in defeat. AL
these he met with his usual
smile and no one ever heard him
complain. His efforts were re-
warded by a success which most
of us can only emulate and not
hope to surpass.
He was q kind and loving hus-
band and father and had given
his children, as far as it was per-
mitted him to do, one of the fin
est things in the world, an edu-
cation. Of enemies he probably
had a few, but every successful
man must have a few such to
sharpen his mental faculties and
make them the more acute. He
leaves to mourn his untimely
loss, besides the widow two sons
and two daughters, Rev. Grant
Rain of Hibbing, Mimi, Anna
and Carlyle of ST. Olaf College
at Mortified, and Nora of Bel
view, beside a brother and sis
ter in Redwood Falls, Rudolph
Rain and Mrs. Tom johnson.
Funeral Today
The funeral services will be
conducted bye the Rev. M. F..
Mommsen at the Norwegian
Lutheran Church in Belview
Wednesday, February %, at 10
o'clock. Interment will be at
Redwood Falls beside the re-
mains of his mother and father
who have preceded him to the
Great Beyond. He is gone and
let us hope that latter life's
fretful fever he sleeps wei"
The entire community extends
sympathy to the sorrowing rela-
tives and hopes that time may
assuage the wound that Death
alone can heal.-Belview Core
spondent.