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VOLUME VII.
FLORA. ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9. L^19
NUMBER 16
:X-PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT DEAD
9und in His Bed by Ne(ro At¬ tendant. His Last Words a Plea for Americanism. Four Sons in War
lYSTER BAY, N. Y., January 0. Theodore Roosevelt, seven years 3sident of the Cnited States, died his home at Sagamore Hill at 4:1.5 Wk this morning, riie famous American, exponent of i "strenuous life," wlio liad fouglit tlie Spanish-American war and ked deatli in liunting big game and jlorlng the jungles of Africa and lib America, passed away peace- ly while asleep, tbe victim of a od clot in tlie lung, resulting from ammatory rheumatism traceable in infected tootli from wbicli be fered twenty years ago.
0 tbe very last (^ol. Roosevelt was
1 vein tbe Interests of his country, i 1 bust plea was a plea for Amerl-; ism.    He was an advocate of  pre- j
[edness long before it was believed | United States would enter the •, and when tlie step was taken his r sons were among llie tirsl to inteer. (iueulin. the youngest, I flghtlng the Iluns last fall. He 60 years of age, and his death will ke a new alignment in both the at parties.
Death of H. F.  Burt
Sergt.  Arthur   Guy Entpey in
Vitagrajth's master production.
"Over the Top."
M. V. No   14
OPERA
MONDAY and TUESDAY
F.   Burt  was born  in   Morgan tity, Oiilo, June 21, 1807.   He died is home near Flora, llllnol.s. Janu- :i, 1919, at the age   of .51  years, 0 iths   and   1.1 days.    He  lived  In o until be reached tlie age of  21, n be moved to Illinois.   On   Feb- •y   9,   1890.    be   was    married to nla  McVeigli.   They   resided  at •Held  until  her   death.   To  this in were born four cliildren:   Mrs. ia   Wymer,  of    Morgan county, I), Cecil,   of  Flora,   Illinois,   and ik and Joe, now witli  the   V.  S. ly in France.   On May 7, 1900, lie married to Miss Elizabetli   Wag- in Ohio.   To tbem six cliildren : born, two of wliom  died  in   in- y.   The four,  wltli  the  raotlier, left   to   mourn his  sudden de- ure.   Besides tlie.se be  leaves a tier, three brothers, one sister and r   relatives   and    friends.   Tlie ral was conducted from tbe liome SunWay at I:.lO p. m. by Rev.   M. oltz, of the M.   E.   church.   The lins were laid to rest in Elmwood itery. "Q"
le deceased was a comparative iger to tlie editor of tbls paper, ar ago wlien we became ac