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Show j OBITUARY. Olson. Solomon Olson, familiarly and fondly known as "Sol" by the printing fraternity fra-ternity of Salt Lake, died in St. Mark's hospital last week from heart failure, after two weeks' illness. He was 32 years of age. a native of Boone, la., and had lived here the past three years. His demise has caused deen sorrow among the circle of newspaper friends by whom he was universally loved and admired. He was of a gentle, retiring nature, and his friends ever found him steadfast and true a man of sterling worth and upright character. Until three weeks ago Mr. Olson was apparently in the best of health. He complained of pains in the region of his heart then, and was immediately taken to "the hospital for an operation. He sank rapidly despite all medical as sistance. Mr, Olson had been foreman of the advertising department of the Herald for the past two years, and was a skilled and competent printer. He was formerly connected with the Century Publishing company. He leaves his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Olson of Boone, and one sister, Ellen Olson of Kansas City. , His body was shipped to his old home in Boone, la., accompanied by his roommate, room-mate, Parley Adams. Fitzpatrick. The sympathy of many friends is extended ex-tended to Mrs. Harry Fitzpatrick, whose husband died on Oct. J4. The funeral services were held last Saturday Satur-day from St. Mary's cathedral. The deceased was a well known mining man. whose many good qualities won for him many devoted friends. Mellon. Tt was with deep grief that the many friends of James Mellon heard of his death which occurred on Monday, after an illness of nearly two years. His funeral occurred on Wednesday morning morn-ing from St. Mary's cathedral. Requiem high mass was celebrated by Rev. Andrew An-drew Ryan, who also preached the sermon. ser-mon. The pall-hearers were Thomas J. O'Brien. John P. Fanning, A. J. Bruneau, Bru-neau, Edward McGurrin. Thomas Mar-nane Mar-nane and William L. Duffy. The deepest sympathy is extended to the bereaved young wife and her little children, who will sadly mourn the loss of a devoted husband and father. No truer, better Christian man never lived than "Jim" Mellon. A loyal Catholic, an honest Christian, kindly, charitable and lovable in every way, he won friends and kept them. He ' was a prominent member of the Knights of Columbus, who attended his funeral in a body. May his soul rest in peace, and his last sleep bs as calm as his life was good and true: Brennan. The funeral aS L'ueillc- Brennan took pla.ee last week from St. Mary's cathedral. ca-thedral. Rev. Father W. K. Ryan officiated of-ficiated and paid a beautiful tribute to the saintly little girl. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Brennan, Bren-nan, and died very suddenly of acute appendicitis. She was a lovable little girl, only 13 years old. and the grief of he;- parents is nitiful. One of th touching incidents of her funeral was the attendence of all her classmates, numbering over fifty. The floral offerings offer-ings were exquisite, and the music by the St. Cecelia chorus, with Ruby Daniels soloist, was very touching. The deepest sympathy is extended to the sorrowing parents, whose only consolation is that their dear little daughter went to God in all the innocent inno-cent sweetness of her girlhood. Surely a no more spotless soul ever existed than that of Lucille Brennan. May she rest in peace! Loftis. Touching indeed were the funerals of the two Denver & Rio- Grande en gineers, Thomas Jefferson Loftis and George W. McAleer, who were killed in the freight wreck at Oliver's siding, sid-ing, twenty miles south of Salt Lake City, Wednesday morning, shortly after 2 o'clock, which took place Sunday Sun-day afternoon. Hundreds of sorrowing relatives and friends gathered to pay a last tribute to the men who, through a slight error, er-ror, had given up their lives at their posts of duty. In a steady downpour of rain many went to the cemetery to see their friends and comrades laid in their final resting place. The funeral of Thomas Jefferson Loftis took place from the Masonic temple, at First South and Second East streets, at 1 o'clock, the chapel of the temple being crowded to the doors. Rev. Daniel M. Helmick. pastor of Iliff M. E. church, gave a fitting eulogy, eulo-gy, and Rev. Louis S. Bowerman. pastor pas-tor of the East Side Baptist church, gave the prayer. The quartette from the East Side Baptist church gave the selections "Nearer, My God, to Thee" and "My Jesus as Wilt." The men to bear the body of their dead friend were C. E. Shermer, H. W. Anderson, C. E. Ives, Edward Connor, J. T. Beless and J. G. Bywater. Caufield. The funeral of Andrew Caufield, the Bingham miner, took place recently from St. Mary's cathedral, and was attended at-tended by many friends. Rev. W. K. Ryan celebrated the mass and paid a beautiful tribute to the life and worth of the deceased. McAleer. The funeral of George W. MrAleer took place from tho funeral chapel of O'Donnell & Co., and was so largely attended that many could not gain admittance. ad-mittance. Following out a request of Mrs. McAleer, Mc-Aleer, J. G. Bywater, chief of the Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers, gave a short testimonial talk, telling of the life of tho dead man as known to his fellow-workmen, and giving words of condolence to sorrowing relatives and friends. The officiating clergyman was the Rev. Peter A. Simpkin. pastor of the Phillips Congregational church, who also pronounced a short eulogy and expressed ex-pressed sympathy for those left behind. There was beautiful music by a selected se-lected quartette, in charge of Miss Nora Gleason. To show the love and respect that Mr. McAleer always expressed for his native state, Maryland, an orchestra was present, and as the body was borne from the chapel it gave the selection "Maryland, My Maryland." : Two funeral cars and many carriages carried relatives and friends to the grave in Mt. Olivet cemetery, where burial took place. The pall-bearers were Thomas Lam pi ugh, Edward Piper, Charles Dickerman, J. A. Daly and E. O. H. Johnson. . I |