An Esteemed Citizen Fallen.
By Editor
While this journal does not deal with local matters or conditions, save as they point a general useful lesson, we feel it a sad duty to record the decease of an esteemed fellow citizen and neighbor, Judge Benjamin Easton Burns, which occurred Monday morning, June 20. He was always dignified, courteous, kindly, and charitable, yet holding strongly to principle, which he saw touched upon nearly every event of life. Until very recently he was for some time the president of the town board of trustees, and one of its most useful, hard working, and painstaking members, ever working for the good of the town. He always wished everything to be just right. As an institution the directors of this publishing house wish to express their appreciation of his kindness and courtesy both in his public capacity and as a citizen and neighbor. The large attendance, at his funeral showed how the community felt the loss which not alone the town suffered, but the people as well. We extend our sympathies to the mourning friends and to the bereaved widow.