Mukwonago Division, No. 127, Sons of Temperance, at a recent meeting adopted the following preamble and resolutions:

Whereas, It has pleased God in his providence to remove by death our highly esteemed associate and brother, Fred Collins, from our midst, we believe it but fitting and proper as past members and associates of the deceased - while we bow submissively to the decrees of Him whose ways are not our ways and are past finding out, yet who doeth all things well - should commemorate the event in such a manner as will tend to remind us of the necessity of our being also ready; therefore

Resolved, That in the death of brother Fred Collins the Division has lost a highly esteemed and beloved member, and the cause of temperance an efficient and faithful laborer; and we shall long cherish in memory his many virtues and his untiring zeal in behalf of fallen humanity.

Resolved, That we hereby tender to the afflicted family of the deceased brother our heartfelt sympathy in this their hour of affliction, and would invoke for them the blessings of Him who Atempers the wind to the shorn lamb, praying that He may in His mercy no grant them that consolation which they so much stand in need.

Resolved, That these resolutions be published in the county papers, and a copy thereof be presented to the family of the deceased.

F.S. Andrews
Parthena Chafin
Ida Kober

Last Friday night occurred the death at Mukwonago of Dr. W. P. Collins, in the 67th year of his age. The deceased was a native of New England, and settled with his family in Waukesha county about thirty years ago. Nearly all of this period was spent in Mukwonago, where he was engaged in the practice of his profession, though his health has prevented active labors in this direction a considerable portion of the time. His disease was consumption, superinduced by blood-poisoning, to which he became a victim years ago while attending to professional duties. From this cause he was a great sufferer, yet he sustained himself under most trying and discouraging conditions, and continued his medical work with a fair degree of success.

The funeral took place on Sunday last at the U. and U. Church, in the village of Mukwonago, and was largely attended by friends and neighbors of the family.

Dr. Collins leaves a wife and four children to mourn his death. In their sorrow they have the sincerest sympathy of all.

Hollis Hollister died at his home in the village of Mukwonago July 8. He was a son of Asa and Almira Hollister and was born in Barford, Can., July 4, 1832, therefore was 80 years old this last Fourth. The family came to Vernon in 1839, Asa Hollister being the first blacksmith in the town.

Hollis Hollister married Esther M. Clark August 20, 1854, by whom he had four children, all of whom are living - Alfred on the old farm, O. L. In Milwaukee, Mary (Mrs. H. D. Hollenback) of Rockford, Ill., and Rose (Mrs. Curtius), who has been his housekeeper since his wife's death in 1900. Mr. Hollister also leaves his older sister, Mrs. Mariette Whitman of Nashua, Fla., who is spending the summer at B. W. Craig's, and his youngest sister, Mrs. James Hutton, of Marshfield, and many nieces and nephews, children of his six sisters.

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Hollister home in Mukwonago. Rev. Mr. Moody of Big Bend preached the sermon. Burial was in the family lot at Dodges Corners cemetery. For the most part of his four score years, Mr. Hollister was noted for his vigorous health, mental strength a

nd ardent advocacy of education, and he gave to his own children every advantage and help he could toward a liberal education. In many respects, he was a typical Wisconsin pioneer. A good neighbor, strong in mind and in body, capable to do and able to endure. He has helped to make of the primitive wilderness the well established, influential commonwealth of Wisconsin - a state wondrous in natural resources and beauty - she has become, under the hand of the husbandman, a veritable paradise of material and intellectual bounty and good, and when the roll of those contributing toward the transformation shall have been engrossed, among the great and good doubtless will be the names of woodsmen and grangers, of soldiers and statesmen, of school masters and of matrons. A debt we owe, an obligation we sustain, toward each and all of these. For every trial and sacrifice endured, for every obstacle surmounted, we owe them gratitude, lasting gratitude. Let us bury their faults, as we entomb their bodies, but ever laud and emulate their virtues. The Wisconsin of today is greater and grander because they have lived and loved and served.

Ira E. Moody.

Hollis Hollister died at his home in the village of Mukwonago July 8. He was a son of Asa and Almira Hollister and was born in Barford, Can., July 4, 1832, therefore was 80 years old this last Fourth. The family came to Vernon in 1839, Asa Hollister being the first blacksmith in the town.

Hollis Hollister married Esther M. Clark August 20, 1854, by whom he had four children, all of whom are living - Alfred on the old farm, O. L. In Milwaukee, Mary (Mrs. H. D. Hollenback) of Rockford, Ill., and Rose (Mrs. Curtius), who has been his housekeeper since his wife's death in 1900. Mr. Hollister also leaves his older sister, Mrs. Mariette Whitman of Nashua, Fla., who is spending the summer at B. W. Craig's, and his youngest sister, Mrs. James Hutton, of Marshfield, and many nieces and nephews, children of his six sisters.

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Hollister home in Mukwonago. Rev. Mr. Moody of Big Bend preached the sermon. Burial was in the family lot at Dodges Corners cemetery.

For the most part of his four score years, Mr. Hollister was noted for his vigorous health, mental strength and ardent advocacy of education, and he gave to his own children every advantage and help he could toward a liberal education. In many respects, he was a typical Wisconsin pioneer. A good neighbor, strong in mind and in body, capable to do and able to endure. He has helped to make of the primitive wilderness the well established, influential commonwealth of Wisconsin - a state wondrous in natural resources and beauty - she has become, under the hand of the husbandman, a veritable paradise of material and intellectual bounty and good, and when the roll of those contributing toward the transformation shall have been engrossed, among the great and good doubtless will be the names of woodsmen and grangers, of soldiers and statesmen, of school masters and of matrons. A debt we owe, an obligation we sustain, toward each and all of these. For every trial and sacrifice endured, for every obstacle surmounted, we owe them gratitude, lasting gratitude. Let us bury their faults, as we entomb their bodies, but ever laud and emulate their virtues. The Wisconsin of today is greater and grander because they have lived and loved and served.

Ira E. Moody.

Surviving are two daughters, Esther and Mary of Chicago; a son, William of Troy Center, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the Charles Powers funeral home at Mukwonago, and burial was in the Big Bend cemetery. The Rev. Arthur Brown officiated at the services.

Burial took place at the Rural Home cemetery, Big Bend.

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