The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-06-20
JOINT FUNERAL =.
SERVICES HELD
FOR THREE BOYS

Joint funeral services were con.
Quoted at the First Presbyterian
church at 3 o'clock this afternoon for
the trio OF Bismarck boys who lost
their lives Monday evening while
wading in the Missouri river.
The dead were Edward Preston
Mowry, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Preston
Mowry; Nelson Jones, son Of
Mrs. l.. c. Jones, and Henry
Schneider, son of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Schneider. All were members of the
Sunday school of the First Presbyter-
ian church, and it was following pic
mic supper at Wards grove participat.
ed in with members Of their class
that the trio engaged in their fatal ex-
pedition to the river.
Rev. H. C. Postlethwaite officiated
in most impressive funeral service
in which the sorrow in which the com.
munity shares with the families of the
three victims was emphasized. The
altar wand biers were banked with
floral tributes from the many friends
Of the young men, and the church was
filled with mOurners. Pallbearers
were selected from the ranks of the
Sunday school classes of which the
three boys were members, and were
as follows: Walter Brandt, Charles
Burke, Robert George, Theodore
Smith, Richard Knappen and Sterling
Reid. The music for the services was
in charge of Miss Bergliot Caspary.
Rev. Postlethwaite in part said:
'These boys went to the grove to en-
JOY an evening in joy and fellowship
together. The evening was warm and
later the boys wended their way to
the cool stream yonder, and brought
out what we call life into eternity. We
believe that you have come to extend
sympathy to the loved ones who re-
main, and also to others, and if you
have so come you have done WELL"
Rev. Postlethwaite spoke of the
splendid Christian character of the
boys, that they were members of the
church and also members of his Sun
day school class and were of the spirit
that was brave and true. He went
on to say that the strange calamity of
sorrow coming into these Christian
homes shows how Christians can bear
up under sorrow and what they can
do when the tests in life come, in
either sorrow, tribulation or adversely.
In words of consolation to the be-
reaved parents and friends of the boys
Rev. Postlethwaite said in conclusion:
"Why do we talk of their future being
cut off, when it has just begun, and is
glorious in its results. Our brother
has not died, but gone for a little
WHILE"
In closing the services were con-
cluded with. the singing by the choir
! Of the beautiful and comforting hymn,
"Abide With Me-
three boys were members.
Escorted by long cortege, the re-
mains were conveyed from the church
to their last resting place in Fair
view cemetery.
The tragedy is one which Bismarck
will never forget. 1T has taught the
city wholesome lesson, and the
sacrifice Of these boys may be the
means Of. saving the lives of many
others through impressing upon Bis
marck the imperative necessity Of
providing for its young people some
safe place of recreation.
Edward Preston Mowry.
Edward Preston Mowry, one of the
three boys who drowned in the Mis-.
souri, river Monday evening, was born
May Is, 1904, at, Jefferson. Ia. and
was Is years and % days old. He was
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Mowry,
who recently came to Bismarck from
Barnesville, a., and nephew Of G.
j. Johnson Of St. Paul, former North,
Dakota bank examiner. In addition to
his parents, there survive brother,
Paul, and two sisters, Rachel and
MarrarAt