Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1896 — Resolutions of Condolence. [ARTICLE]

Resolutions of Condolence.

Rentslaer, Ind , Aug. 7, 1896. Hall of Rensselaer D. of R. Lodge No. 346, I. 0. O F. Whereas: Death having again invaded oiir Lodge, and taken from our midst our worthy brother Edward Bowman, who departed this life, Sunday, July 26, 1896. Never, again in this beautiful ball shall we meet him. The pallid messenger of of death beckoned him to come, and our brother passed into the beyond, over that mysterious sea, that never yet has borne the shadow of a returning brother or sister. Like a shadow, thrown softly from a passing cloud, death fell upon him Farewell brother! Resolved: That we the members of Rensselaer D. of R Lodge No.

346 I. O. O. F. do sincerely mourn the loss of our departed brother, and that our sympathies be extended to his mother and bereaved relatives. Resolved: That our charter be draped in mourning for the period of thirty du\s, and a copy of these resolutions under seal of the Lodge, be presented to the mother of the deceased brother and that they be spread in fall u ( unn the minutes of the Lodge, and h- published in The Rensselaer Republ can and thu People’s Pilot. J. F. Antrim, ) Sadie Parcels, > Committee, Eo Parcels )