Mandan Daily Pioneer, Monday, September 24, 1923, Page 1.
FUNERAL OF VICTIMS
Sympathy in the hour of tragedy is the leveler of all creeds. It is the attribute in humankind that springs to the assistance of the afflicted, comfort those who mourn, smoothes life's pathway for the oppressed. Sympathy - a share in their grief - though they be "strangers within our gates" was extended in full measure at the funeral services for the four sons of Mr. and Mrs. Johan Axt, held at the Kennelly chapel at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
Flowers in a profusion that covered the four little white caskets of graduated sizes, gave token of the sympathy of Mandan. Three score folks, mostly women, of all creeds were present, eyes and hearts full. The Catholic Daughters of America, the Salvation Army corps, dozens of individuals expressed their sympathy for the parents with masses of bloom. Mrs. W. E. Hearl, leader of the Lutheran choir, sang an appropriate "Lullaby" and Rev. W. R. Thatcher, pastor of the Methodist church delivered a most comforting sermon on the text, "Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven." Miss Eleanor Allen at the chapel organ played hymns, the old, old hymns.
The four little white caskets, one by one were wheeled from the chapel and placed in the hearse, for "they died together, let them be on the last ride together" asked the grief stricken father. Then at the four graves side by side in the cemetery, beneath a laden sky of the dull September day, Rev. Thatcher led the little group of a score or more who attended the service at the grave in singing "In the Sweet Bye and Bye." Prayers, benediction, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
One by one the little white coffins with their silent burdens were lowered to their resting place, side by side, their life stories written, their book complete.
Johan Axt, the father, and Andreas Axt, the cousin, today turned from their grief to the sordid demands of the world. Both desire work of any kind, work which will keep them and their wives and the two children of Johan remaining to him, until "God wills that Joseph, in critical condition at the hospital, shall live or die."
FUNERAL OF VICTIMS
Sympathy in the hour of tragedy is the leveler of all creeds. It is the attribute in humankind that springs to the assistance of the afflicted, comfort those who mourn, smoothes life's pathway for the oppressed. Sympathy - a share in their grief - though they be "strangers within our gates" was extended in full measure at the funeral services for the four sons of Mr. and Mrs. Johan Axt, held at the Kennelly chapel at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
Flowers in a profusion that covered the four little white caskets of graduated sizes, gave token of the sympathy of Mandan. Three score folks, mostly women, of all creeds were present, eyes and hearts full. The Catholic Daughters of America, the Salvation Army corps, dozens of individuals expressed their sympathy for the parents with masses of bloom. Mrs. W. E. Hearl, leader of the Lutheran choir, sang an appropriate "Lullaby" and Rev. W. R. Thatcher, pastor of the Methodist church delivered a most comforting sermon on the text, "Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven." Miss Eleanor Allen at the chapel organ played hymns, the old, old hymns.
The four little white caskets, one by one were wheeled from the chapel and placed in the hearse, for "they died together, let them be on the last ride together" asked the grief stricken father. Then at the four graves side by side in the cemetery, beneath a laden sky of the dull September day, Rev. Thatcher led the little group of a score or more who attended the service at the grave in singing "In the Sweet Bye and Bye." Prayers, benediction, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
One by one the little white coffins with their silent burdens were lowered to their resting place, side by side, their life stories written, their book complete.
Johan Axt, the father, and Andreas Axt, the cousin, today turned from their grief to the sordid demands of the world. Both desire work of any kind, work which will keep them and their wives and the two children of Johan remaining to him, until "God wills that Joseph, in critical condition at the hospital, shall live or die."
Mandan Daily Pioneer, Monday, September 24, 1923, Page 1.
FUNERAL OF VICTIMS
Sympathy in the hour of tragedy is the leveler of all creeds. It is the attribute in humankind that springs to the assistance of the afflicted, comfort those who mourn, smoothes life's pathway for the oppressed. Sympathy - a share in their grief - though they be "strangers within our gates" was extended in full measure at the funeral services for the four sons of Mr. and Mrs. Johan Axt, held at the Kennelly chapel at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
Flowers in a profusion that covered the four little white caskets of graduated sizes, gave token of the sympathy of Mandan. Three score folks, mostly women, of all creeds were present, eyes and hearts full. The Catholic Daughters of America, the Salvation Army corps, dozens of individuals expressed their sympathy for the parents with masses of bloom. Mrs. W. E. Hearl, leader of the Lutheran choir, sang an appropriate "Lullaby" and Rev. W. R. Thatcher, pastor of the Methodist church delivered a most comforting sermon on the text, "Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven." Miss Eleanor Allen at the chapel organ played hymns, the old, old hymns.
The four little white caskets, one by one were wheeled from the chapel and placed in the hearse, for "they died together, let them be on the last ride together" asked the grief stricken father. Then at the four graves side by side in the cemetery, beneath a laden sky of the dull September day, Rev. Thatcher led the little group of a score or more who attended the service at the grave in singing "In the Sweet Bye and Bye." Prayers, benediction, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
One by one the little white coffins with their silent burdens were lowered to their resting place, side by side, their life stories written, their book complete.
Johan Axt, the father, and Andreas Axt, the cousin, today turned from their grief to the sordid demands of the world. Both desire work of any kind, work which will keep them and their wives and the two children of Johan remaining to him, until "God wills that Joseph, in critical condition at the hospital, shall live or die."
FUNERAL OF VICTIMS
Sympathy in the hour of tragedy is the leveler of all creeds. It is the attribute in humankind that springs to the assistance of the afflicted, comfort those who mourn, smoothes life's pathway for the oppressed. Sympathy - a share in their grief - though they be "strangers within our gates" was extended in full measure at the funeral services for the four sons of Mr. and Mrs. Johan Axt, held at the Kennelly chapel at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
Flowers in a profusion that covered the four little white caskets of graduated sizes, gave token of the sympathy of Mandan. Three score folks, mostly women, of all creeds were present, eyes and hearts full. The Catholic Daughters of America, the Salvation Army corps, dozens of individuals expressed their sympathy for the parents with masses of bloom. Mrs. W. E. Hearl, leader of the Lutheran choir, sang an appropriate "Lullaby" and Rev. W. R. Thatcher, pastor of the Methodist church delivered a most comforting sermon on the text, "Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven." Miss Eleanor Allen at the chapel organ played hymns, the old, old hymns.
The four little white caskets, one by one were wheeled from the chapel and placed in the hearse, for "they died together, let them be on the last ride together" asked the grief stricken father. Then at the four graves side by side in the cemetery, beneath a laden sky of the dull September day, Rev. Thatcher led the little group of a score or more who attended the service at the grave in singing "In the Sweet Bye and Bye." Prayers, benediction, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
One by one the little white coffins with their silent burdens were lowered to their resting place, side by side, their life stories written, their book complete.
Johan Axt, the father, and Andreas Axt, the cousin, today turned from their grief to the sordid demands of the world. Both desire work of any kind, work which will keep them and their wives and the two children of Johan remaining to him, until "God wills that Joseph, in critical condition at the hospital, shall live or die."
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