Meade County news., 1917-03-01
Services of Military Simplicity
Held for Dead Officer at
San Antonio.
BODY RESTED IN THE ALAMO
Vast Crowd Passed Through Historic
Building to View Remains
Burial at the Preside.

AAOuOIOAg AdIlOhdl 6udl ll camp
Wilson and thousands of civilians
from San Antonio joined, was held
for the late Maj. Gen. Frederick Funs-
ton, commander of the Southern De-
partment, whose sudden death oc-
Cured the night before. The culmi-
mating honor paid the dead general
was the placing of his body within the
Alamo, the first time the Alamo has
ever been used for such a purpose.
There, while men from the Nineteenth
Infantry formed a V-shaped guard to
the old stucco doorway, file of
mourners passed in and out of the
building from o'clock until night
fall. The only religious services held
were at General Funston's official
residence at Fort Sam Houston There
Chaplain Barton w. Perry of the
Third Field Artillery read the regular
army burial service. The only music
was Lead Kindly Light" played by
the Nineteenth Infantry Band.
A continual procession filed in and
out of the building from until
o'clock, and many were unable to gain
entrance. At o'clock, accompanied
by an honor guard Of Company c,
Thirty-seventh Infantry, the casket
was taken to the Southern Pacific
Station, where it was placed in an OBJ
servation Pullman. In the observa-
tion section, surrounded by flowers,
and with two soldiers standing at at
tention by the casket, the body will
make its last journey to San Fran
cisco.
The funeral will long be remember
ed by regulars and national guards
men, its entire lack of military splen-
dor all the more emphasizing it's sol
emnity. Not an officer was in full
dress. Like the enlisted men, all wore
the regular khaki service uniform, the
only distinction being the designat-
ing stars, or bars, and the fact that
the officers wore sidearms. This de-
cision was reached by regular officers
out of consideration for Officers of the
national guard, many of whom had
only service uniforms here
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Death of Mrs. Charles Price.-Mrs.
Charles Price, for forty years a resi-
dent of Atchison county, is dead at
her home in Nortonville. She was Ga
years old.
Kansan Drowned in China.-John H.
Dadisman, for many years high school
Y. NJ. c. A. secretary in Kansas, and
a former football star at Washburn
College, Topeka, was drowned in the
Yangtse River in China, according to
word received by his brother in Wich.
ita. The secretary of the International
Y. M. c. A. at Pekin cabled to the ma
tional secretary that Mr.. Dadisman
had gone swimming several days ago,
and had not returned. Dadisman went
to China for the Y. M. c. A. in 1912.
He was about So years old.
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Kansas Editor Dies.-Charles e.
Cowdery, aged 40 years, editor and
publisher of the Neodesha Daily Sun,
is dead after an illness of nearly four
weeks, following a stroke of apoplexy.
Mr.. Cowdery had been in the news
paper business in Wilson county for
twenty-three years. He is survived
by his wife and two daughters. Mr..
Cowdery at one time published five
different newspapers in Wilson
county.
"Dave" Leahy Critically liII.-David
D. Leahy, veteran newspaper man and
recently appointed election commits
sioner at Wichita, is critically i'll at
his home.
Hazel SpeIIman Recovers.-Hazel
Spellman, the 14-year-old girl found
seriously wounded beside her dead
mother in barn near Henson, six
weeks ago, has been removed from
Paola hospital to her home near th0re.
The girl virtually has recovered from
the wounds which at first were
thought fatal. The charge of first de-
oASO iluluCl uLOu6nI d6dlHoI JnC 6lll
a month ago to prevent her removal
to Kansas City hospital was with
drawn just before she left The shoot
ing, which resulted in the death of
Mrs. L. T. Spellman, the girls
mother, attracted wide attention and
has not been cleared up.
X X x
Married 81 Years.-Mr. and Mrs.
Christian Beck, respectively, S8 and
80 years old, of Pittsburg, recently
celebrated their sixty-frst wedding an.
niversary. They have lived in Craw.
ford county forty-three years.
X X X
High School Site Bought.-The site
for new 100000 high school building
at Paola has been purchased by the
school board for $4,000. The build
ing will be within three blocks of the
main part of the city and will be built
on a half block of ground. Work will
begin about March Is.
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Child -pIes=ef surns.-Nellie He'd
rick, 3 years old, while her mother
was absent from the house in Sharon,
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