OBITUARY

Mrs. Bessie V. Wilder Williams was born at Otranto, Iowa, Feb. 9, 74. She attended Austin High School and later spent two years at the Iowa state normal at Cedar Falls. She taught a number of years in both the Iowa and Idaho schools. Her interests were always along educational lines and the past year she was taking an advanced normal course in Bellingham, Wash., where she expected to graduate in June.

She contracted a severe cold during the holiday season which developed into bronchial pneumonia, the immediate cause of her death, Feb. 5th 1910.

Mrs. Bessie Williams was a daughter of Nelson M and Mari H Wilder, and she leaves Harold, her 14 year old son, and her mother at Portland, Oregon, and two brothers; B. V. Wilder of Mitchell, S. D., and A. B. Wilder of this village, to mourn her untimely departure.

Funeral services were held at the A. B. Wilder home Wednesday Feb. 16th, conducted by Rev. C. D. Belden. Interment at Woodbury.