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Show DEATH OF JOHN T JONES. i The . udderi and untimely uat:: of John T. Jor.e.s, at 372 Main st. cani lll; a bolt from the char sky to his loving wife nnd many friendii, on Wednesday morning at the local hospital. hos-pital. From a restful, loving conversation convers-ation Tuesday night, he dropped into an unconscious state from which he never awoke, vsave in eternity. He had been working In the employ of U. S. mine. He was fifty years of age. I!y usiiii , f wry available strategy he pot tc serve la the last war, though bis nut: was against him, and saw gruelling service. He was ga-:sed and had j many, other hairbreadth escapes. I I'c Ivips it was t!.at same indoiuitable I will U serve In peace as In war that 1 finally brought him down. The local American 1. :!o:i .served their "llucf- dy" to tlii List, when a mi .'urn . i sqi'ad fired i. lie farewell .itilule and "taps" ended the soldier's earthly car c. T' e casket was draped in 111 fill. in national colors and borne by legion pall-bearers. Kequlein High Mass was celebrated in Holy Itouiry Church for his soul und the sermon preached by his pastor, Hi Ilev. Stephen Davis., The sermon was inspired by the sight of the f las-draped las-draped casket, and consisted In asking ask-ing a supreme question of the Anior- ; Iran people at large: How could any ' red-blooded American man affiliate i or prostitute his services in a hooded poclety spawned In benighted (ieorgia to boycot those American returned j soldiers, to hiss at them like snakes in the gra.s, to tell them they were not and could not bo true Americans. , n nd all because. t':ey were Catholics In religion And regardin Hie fu-1 :re In the light of the recent past.1 ; Who will he duped Into similar or-' or-' ganizatlous of hate as swindlers will launch them In future years? i 1 i Interment was at Centerville. Deceased De-ceased Is survived by one sister In , his home state of Maine, by his wife Catherine Crelghton, and baby daughter Elizabeth Krancella. i The pall-hearers were: A. I). Clarke, It. T. Keriell, David Lyons, ll'aul Ransom. |