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Show I FUNERAL OF FRED BURT. II " "" . -, II, -. ' The firm of Burt Brothers and the community will miss Fred KB Burt, whose funeral 'esterday afternoon -was an impressive vo ls J minder that Death is no vespecter of age. Before the young man JIB ,wcnt .East a fewt weeks ago, none would have selected him as the I next 'one of our prominent citizens to answer the summons. In the I long line of marchers at the funeral were at least one hundred men ' 1 who,-, two months ago, would have exchanged with Fred Burt their jl lease of life, were that possible; and such is the uncertainty of life. if The members of the Elks lodge were out in exceptionally large I1 numbers as a last tribute to one of the most popular and active mem- ' burs' in that organization. They were at the bier to say farewell, and to them it was a sad mission. The dcatli of one so prominently identified with the business iv interests, in a city the sue of Ogden where friendships extend ; throughout the community, causes a pause in our busy lives and, 'as we, halt in meditation, there comes the consciousness that wc all 1 arc moving along the pathways that lead to the grave. |