The Sauk Centre herald., 1932-06-09
G.. H. Smith,
Devils Lake,
Died June 4
Deceased Grew to Young
Manhood In Sank Centre
So Years Old
ILL FOR SOME TIME
Funeral Was Held Tuesday,
Left This City About
"a Years Ago

Charles H. Smith, who grew tc
young manhood in this city, passed
away at his home at Devils Lake
N. D., Saturday evening of last
week. The following story taker
from the Devils Lake Daily Journ
al will be of interest to many Her.
aid readers:
Charlie H. Smith, So known tc
his hosts of friends in the Lake
Region as Charlie" died suddenly
at his home in Devils Lake Satur.
day night from asthmatic compli.
cations.
Desperately sick for the past
week with complications resulting
from a seven year battle with bron-
chial asthma, Charlie seemed to be
resting easier at a quarter to seven
Saturday evening. But as the sun
crept toward the horizon the won
derful vitality that had kept him
courageously alive the past few
months seeped away and he died
quietly and calmly.
Charlie Smith was born in Lake
Park, Minnesota, June 14th, 1880
His parents were Henry and Mary
Ann Smith, pioneer settlers of Min
nesota. From Lake Park he moved
with his parents to Sauk Centre,
Minnesota, where, but for the in
tervention of a few years spent
with his family on the West Coast,
he grew to manhood.
When Charlie Smith was 18 he
came to Devils Lake accepting a
position with Manns store where
he has been manager of various
departments ever since. For five
years he was manager of Mann's
store in Cando.
In 1902 he was married to Carrie
Thompson, of Grey Eagle, Mime
sofa. To this union a baby boy was
born, Charles, Jr., who died in in
fancy.
When a man comes to die, the
blamelessness, the nobility of char
acter, the sincerity of his life can
we'll be judged by his friends. Char
lie could name his intimate friends
by the hundreds and his enemies
on his five fingers.
When a man with the fineness of
character that Charlie Smith pos
sessed is dead his friends look back
at his life with respect and take
from it two lessons that make for
complete and joyful lives for them
selves. That is an accomplishing
nature and a sunny disposition.
You could never tell how: sick
Charlie really was. When friends
asked him how he was feeling it
was always fine" He carried the
burden of one of the most dreadful
diseases known to man, as a real
herman would carry it without COM
planning, with optimism and good
cheer. Charlie counted his friends
by the score because his dispositi-
ton was friendly and sunny. He
was immensely interested in human
nature and the joyful side of life
always sympathetic and cheerful.
With Charlie Smiths death the
Northwest has lost one of its most
noted sportsman. Extremely fond
of dogs and hunting Charlie loved
the outdoors with it's glamorous
settings of lake, fields and streams.
For several years he was an expert
marksman for the Peters Cartridge
company putting on countless dem
onstrations of his uncanny marks
manship, with rifle, revolver and
shotgun.
He is survived by his widow,
Carrie Smith and by three sisters;
Mrs. M. F. Woodbury., Hornell, N.
Y; Mrs. Mary T. Spitz and Mrs.
Fred P. Mann, Sr., both of Devils
Lake. This was his immediate
family. Mrs. Spitz will be here for
the funeral services, being accom-
panied from Hornell, N. Y, by Earl
Mann.
Funeral services will be held
Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 from the
Presbyterian church with the Rev
erend Rose, of Bismark speaking
the funeral sermon.
Manns store, which Charlie Smith
served faithfully for over 80 years,
will be closed from 200 o'clock on
Tuesday in deep respect and mourn
ing. The salespeople of Manns,
whom Charlie liked so well, will at
tend the funeral in a body.
Pallbearers will be close friends
of Charles: "Wren" Smell, Albert
Bell, Art Jerome, Fred thinner,
SANDY" Hagen, dutch" Hofmeist-
er.
En- Requiem Charlie Smith.