Rudolph Hasley
WRITTEN BY : TINA EASLEY
I HAVE CREATED THIS DOCUMENT WHILE RESEARCHING THE OLD NEWSPAPERS . I HAVE RE-WRITTEN THE ARTICLE BELOW IN MY OWN WORDS MAKING THE DOCUMENT BELOW COPYRIGHTABLE.
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FROM THE WEEKLY SOLIPHONE
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JAN. 26, 1915 - FRIDAY
WELL KNOWN CITIZEN EXPIRED WHILE ON WAY HOME LAST NIGHT
BODY FOUND THIS MORNING
RUDOLPH HASLEY , AGED 55 YEARS , ONE OF THE MOST WIDELY KNOWN CITIZENS OF PARAGOULD , DIED SUDDENLY ABOUT TEN THIRTY O'CLOCK LAST NIGHT WHILE ON HIS WAY FROM HIS PLACE OF BUSINESS ON NORTH PRUETT STREET TO HIS HOME IN NORTHEAST PARAGOULD. HIS BODY WAS FOUND ON THE SIDE OF THE PATH IN THE WRAPE STAVE YARD THROUGH WHICH HE WAS ACCUSTOMED TO PASS ENROUTE HOME. THE FIRST REPORT TO REACH THE CITY WAS THAT HE HAD BEEN KNOCKED IN THE HEAD AND KILLED , BUT EXAMINATION PF HIS HEAD AND BODY DISCLOSED NO EVIDENCES OF VIOLENCE . HIS RING, WATCH AND SOME MONEY WERE FOUND ON HIS PERSON. AT TEN O'CLOCK THIS MORNING CORNER McHANEY HELD AN INQUEST AND THE JURY DECIDED HASLEY DIED SUDDENLY FROM UNKNOWN NATURAL CAUSES.
MR. HASLEY FOR SEVERAL YEARS OPERATED A COLD DRINK AND FRUIT STAND ON WEST COURT STREET. TWO WEEKS AGO HE MOVED TO A STAND OPPOSITE FISHER'S DRUG STORE ON NORTH PRUET STREET. HE WAS AT HIS PLACE OF BUSINESS YESTERDAY AND LAST NIGHT UNTIL A FEW MINUTES AFTER TEN O'CLOCK . HE WAS IN HIS USUAL JOLLY MOOD AND CONVERSED CHEERFULLY WITH FRIENDS UP TO THE TIME HE CLOSED UP FOR THE NIGHT.
I DID NOT KNOW MY FATHER WAS WAS SUFFERING FROM HEART DISEASE , SAID JOHN HASLEY , HIS SON , THIS MORNING HE HAD ALWAYS BEEN IN GOOD HEALTH AND HAD NEVER COMPLAINED OF ANY AILMENT UNTIL A FEW WEEKS AGO WHEN HE REMARKED TO ME THAT SOME DAY I WOULD FIND HIM DEAD. HE SAID THEN HE THOUGHT HE HAD BRIGHT'S DISEASE , BUT I LAUGHED THE MATTER OFF. I KNEW HE COULD NOT HAVE BRIGHT'S DISEASE WITHOUT SUFFERING SOME PAIN . HIS DEATH WAS EVIDENTLY CAUSED BY HEART FAILURE.
MR. HASLEY WAS A NATIVE OF SWITZERLAND . HE CAME TO THE UNITED STATES WHEN HE WAS SIXTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND FIRST LOCATED IN PENNSYLVANIA . LATER HE WENT TO ILLINOIS , AND ABOUT TWENTY-THREE YEARS AGO HE CAME TO PARAGOULD . HE WAS EMPLOYED AS ENGINEER AT THE WRAPE FACTORY FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS , RESIGNING HIS POSITION ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO . SINCE THAT TIME HE HAD CONDUCTED A COLD DRINK AND FRUIT STAND.
MR. HASLEY WAS KNOWN ALL OVER ARKANSAS AS AN ENTHUSIASTIC MEMBER OF THE ANCIENT ORDER OF UNITED WORKMEN. HE WAS A CHARTER MEMBER OF THE LOCAL LODGE AND HAD FILLED EVERY POSITION IN THE ORDER. A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO HE WAS ELECTED TO OFFICE IN THE GRAND LODGE OF ARKANSAS AND BY DESERVED PROMOTION EACH YEAR HE FINALLY PASSED THROUGH THE CHAIR OF GRAND MASTER WORKMAN . FOUR WEEKS AGO HE WAS CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE DELEGATES TO THE SUPREME LODGE THAT MET IN WHEELING , WEST VIGINIA . HE ATTENDED THE GRAND LODGE AND VISITED HIS OLD HOME IN PENNSYLVANIA , RETURNING TO PARAGOULD TWO WEEKS AGO . HE HAS ONE BROTHER AND ONE SISTER LIVING IN SWITZERLAND . IN ADDITION TO THESE HE IS SURVIVED BY ONE SON , JOHN HASLEY , AND TWO GRANDCHILDREN . HIS WIFE DIED TWO YEARS AGO LAST FALL.
MR. HASLEY WAS A HARD WORKING CONGENIAL MAN , LIBERAL HEARTED TO A FAULT AND NUMBERED HIS FRIENDS BY HIS ACQUAINTANCES. HE DID A GREAT DEAL OF CHARITY WORK AND WAS NEVER KNOWN TO TURN DOWN AN APPEAL FROM A WORTHY SOURCE.
IN ADDITION TO HIS ACTIVITY AS A MEMBER OF THE A.O.U.W. LODGE , HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE DEGREEOF HONOR, OF THE WOODMEN OF THE WORLD , DIAMOND LODGE OF ODD FELLOWS AND THE MOOSE.
FUNERAL SERVICES OVER HIS REMAINS WILL BE CONDUCTED AT THE HASLEY HOME AT 2 O'CLOCK SUNDAY AFTERNOON BY REV. W.C. WOOD. INTERMENT WILL FOLLOW AT LINWOOD CEMETERY UNDER AUSPICES OF A.O.U.W.
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