Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-09-13

ces of great responsibility in this vii
lage. He was at the head OF the
Commercial club, held an office in
the band organization, was secretary
| of the firemen, was member OF the
town coucil and held other places of
trust.
Mrs. Horton received such a splen-
did letter of coincidence from Lieut..
Dallstream who was Lloyd's COM
manding officer. He is sending Mrs.
Horton true copies of all orders and
promotions.
The services were held at the home
on the lawn Saturday afternoon,
Sept. 7, 1918, and about one thousand
or more people were present Proba-
bly, the largest funeral ever held in
Lime Springs. The male quartet
sang, Rev. David Edwards offered
a beautiful prayer and his pastor Rev,
w. E. Caldwell preached the funeral
sermon.
The funeral procession headed by
the bugler and the military escort was
probably the longest procession ever
seen here. 1t reached almost from
the town to the cemetery. The serv-
ices at the grave were conducted by
the Masons using their splendid form
for the occasion. D. H. Thomas
spoke. After the Masons had finish
ed their service the military escort
gave the salute of honor for their de-
parted comrade, six guns fired three
times. Then while they were stand
ing at attention from afar came the
bugle call "Taps." At camp this call is
the last thing they hear. TAPS is
sounded at II o'clock and all are sup
posed to be resting. Their comrade
was AT Rest"
Those who attended the funeral
from away were: Mrs. w. T. Hayes,
st. Charles, Mimi, DR.. and Mrs. ]. II.
Darcy, Sioux City, Iowa, DR.. and Mrs.
Cal Horton and daughter, Calmsr, To-
wa, Thomas Horton, Orelia, n. D,
Roy Horton, New Rockford, \. . ,
Llyn Horton, Orelia, N. D., Mrs.
Charles Kohout, Cass Lake, Mimi,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Luhua al,
Postville, Iowa, and Mr.. and Mrs. IL.
S. Luhman, NPostville, Iowa, Mrs.
Thompson and daughter of North
wood, Iowa, Mrs. Brown, Austin,
Mimi, Merle Anderson, Preston, MINI.
Sergeant Starkey in his address
said:
1T is with sadness and regret, yet
with quite bit of pride that we come
here to do honor to our comraGe in
the Quartemasters Corps at the Rase
Hospital at Camp Grant, Ill. 1t is
hardly necessary to tell you that we
loved Sergeant Horton. You Of this
community know him and know that
to know him was to love and respect
him. On Dec. 10, 1917, he enlisted in
the Quartermaster's Reserve Corps,
was called into active service on Jan
uary Is, 1918, and was sent to Camp
Johnston, at Jacksonville, Fla, under
standing that he was to be put in the
officers training school. On account
Of the large number at the camp and
lack of officers his best points were
not discovered. On Feb. q, 1918, he
was transferred to Detachment @. NJ.
c. Base Hospital, Camp Grant, I'll.
On arrival at our camp he was
brought before the Lieutenant in
command and myself He was rec
commended as Private first class and
fireman from the camp from which
he came. AS soon as his very, fine
qualities were noticed Lieut.. Dali
stream, his commanding officer, said:
There is a man of great power"
and gave him position of very great
responsibility. He was promoted to
Sergeant First Glass @. M. c. on Apr.
6, 1918, and placed in charge of all
outside work of the hospital grounds.
This work included a general super
vision of the hospital grounds and
buildings. On May 9, 1918, he was
again promoted to the grade of Quar-
termaster-Se @. M. C. which is
next to the highest non-commissioned
office in the army. :
II have just learned today that on
the day of his death orders were is
sued for him to go to Camp Zachary
Taylor, Va, as candidate for COM
mission in the artillery branch. On
yesterday the camp headquarters call
ed him up by phone, not knowing of
Ills ucdIu duu 1C4uOoICu IAdL AC UC
placed in charge of all the men going
from our camp. This is quite an hon
or and we regret very much that he
was not able to live and achieve the
end toward which he was constantly
working.
"He was never considered seriously
ill until eleven o'clock on the day of
his death. His death was caused
from an abcess of the frontal sinus
which finally caused acute Leptomen-
nights. The abcess was caused by
old catarrhal conditions. From the
time he went to the hospital until the
death he was given the very best of
care, at one time consultation of
seven of the best surgeons was held,
trying to determine the trouble.
Immediately after his death which
was a great blow to all of us, the men
of the, hospital organization began to