Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1919-01-22

Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the
Commercial Club:
While We have learned through the
casualty Of war. and the worlds
scourge of influenza, to expect the sud-
den sundering OF friendly ties by
death, yet each time that the call is
answered by a friend we are arrested
in shocked surprise Again and yet
again during the past few weeks we
have had occasion, as we received the
sad news OF the departure of friend,
to think seriously on the brevity and
uncertainty of life, and to wonder at
the mystery we call death. Recogniz-
ing as we do that all life is but a
transitory state, and believing as we
do that there is in reality no, death,
and that which ia termed death is for
man but the passing to other plains
of activity. Still we can never, as we
stand by the side of the flower-strewn
grave, take to our heart the comfort
which that true philosophy should i'm
part. God in His good providence has
planted in our breasts a love of life, a
love for friends and the relations of
life, the ties of which being broken
brings grief and tears, and though we
may realize that he who has answered
the call still lives, we who are left to
face that new relations of life's sor-
row, we mourn, not selfishly, but in
bewilderment in the sudden sense of
individual loss.
On December 9th, 1918, Harry C.
Seeds, a member of the Commercial
Club of Manchester, was called to
cease his activities in our midst and
the records Of this organization must
be made to record that call, as anoth-
er passing through the gateway of
death.
AS that record is made we deem it
fitting that it should further show
somewhat the respect in which he was
held in this organization, in the COM
munity and among the people, who
knew him well, and we therefore pro-
pose the following resolution, when
passed by this body to be part of its
permanent records.
RESOLVED: That the Commercial
club of Manchester, Iowa, in the death
of Harry c. Seeds realizes that the or
ganizatiOn has sustained the great
loss of an honored and highly respect
ed member.
Harry c. Seeds waSa young man OF
exceptional ability of unquestioned
honesty, and possessed of public
spirit which placed him in the front
ranks in all enterprises for the better
ment of the community. His was an
energy which impelled him to activ-
tiles in public affairs and private busi-
ness, which his slight hold on life
could i'll afford. Realizing there was
with him weakness of the body
which made his hold on the future in
this life uncertain he filled his youth
ful years with earnest endeavor in
useful pursuits, which may we'll stand
as an example and record of success
full achievement.
His life has been exemplar, his
character above reproach. The repu-
tation which he has built in this COM
munity as an upright honest man, an
citizen and eminently sue
cessful young business man will re-
main a lasting monument to his mem
ory.
Our sympathy goes out to his be-
reaved family, by whom he was re-
vered and in which his presence SEEM
ed greatly needed.
We therefore move the adoption of
this resolution to be spread upon the |
permanent records of the Commercial |
Club of Manchester, and that a copy
thereof be sent to the bereaved wife |
and bereaved parents of the deceased. |
GEO. w. DUNHAM,
HUBERT CARR,