Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1919-12-27
"PA" HAND, PIONEER HURLEY
RESIDENT, is CALLED
End Comes Quietly to Veteran News.
paperman and Prominent Citizen
Early Christmas Morning.

dents upon their appearance on the
streets of the city Christmas morn
ing and that travelled swiftly from
house to house, casting a gloom
over the spirit of Christmas time.
The end came quietly and sud
denly to the veteran newspaperman.
prominent citizen and pioneer resi-
| dent of Hurley at the home of
Frank Nolan, where he boarded
and roomed, early Christmas morn
ing. His lifeless body was discov-
cred in the bath room by members
OF the household. The physicians
who were called said that he had
been dead but short time and that
his demise was the result of the
bursting of a blood vessel i'll his
head. When discovered he was
lying on the floor with his face in a
stove pipe hole in the floor. He
sustained a number of bruises a.
bout the face in the fall. The OPP
inion of the physicians is that he
suffered stroke of apoplexy and
was dead when he fell.
Although Mr.. Hand had not been
feeling we'll of late he was able to
be at his work in Lambrix &
Thomas insurance office all last
week. He was on the streets of
the city and visited the office last
Sunday morning, but since that
time was confined to his room. At
times he was able to be up and a.
bout the house but since Sunday
morning had not been out of the
house. Early Christmas morning
he arose from his bed, dressed
himself and informed member of
the household that he was tired of
lying in bed and would go down
stairs and sit in chair. He re-
manned there for while and was
heard returning upstairs and a
short time later he was found dead
in the bath room. He had been
under a doctors care for some time
and it is said was afflicted with
high blood pressure.
The body was removed to Char
bonneaus undertaking parlors and
prepared for burial ard this after
noon it will be shipped over the
500 Line leaving here at 4:4o to
Burlington, Wis, where funeral
services will be held next Monday
afternoon and where internmen.
will take place. From to 4 o.
clock this afternoon the body will
lie in state in the local Masonic
lodge rooms, where it may be view
ed by the public. At $50 O'Clock
short services will be held, after
which the body will be escorted to
the station by members of Hurley
Lodge No. 237, A. +. & A. M, of
which the deceased was a member.
Frank B. Hand, Familiarity known
as 'Pa" Hand, was 65 years old
He was born at Lyons, Wis, on
August rs, 1854. He spent his
boyhood days there and when a
young man learned the printer S
trade and in the years that follow
ed worked in printing Offices at var
ious points in Wisconsin and lower
Michigan. In the spring of the
year 1886 he came to Hurley,
which was then enjoying its boom
as young mining camp. He es-
tablished the Gogebic Iron Tribune
and later purchased the Montreal
River Miner from Goudie & Coo
dell and consolidated the papers
under the name of the Montreal
River Miner. A number of years
later he also purchased the Iron
County Republican in co-partner-
ship with Chas. Strandberg, the
two papers being Issued from the
same Office for many years until the
death OF Mr.. Stfandberg, when the
] Republican was taken over by W.
O. Strandberg, who later disposed
of the paper and equipment to
/ Frank Marta and it is now publish
/ ed as the Iron County News under