From The Ludington Papers

The Ludington papers of last week contain long obituary notices of the late Mrs. O. E. Mitchell. We take the following extracts from the notices. The Lndington Record sajs: "Miss Morton had been preceptress in our high school and in that positie n had become vvidely known. Ueing preeminentlv fitted for the position, she had gained the entire confidence and affeetioii of the young and her permanent settlement in Ludington as the wifeof one of our best and truest ciüzens was a source of gratiflcation to all." The Ludington Democrat says: "During her three years with the Ludington high school she had the love and respect of all her students and all the pations of the school. None knew her but to love and respect her, and her cheerful disposition and words of charity for all. endeared her to tlinse who were favored with lier acquaintance. Slie was a devoted wife and assumed the new duties devolving upon her with queenly grace and fortitude. Her last hours were in keeping with her whole hfe and although enduring great bodilv pain, she never complained and seeined to trust unreservedly in Him who cares for all. Her sweet life ebbed slowlv away and faintpr and fainter me the pulsations of the heart until death claimed her for his own. She died as she lived, at peace with all and surrounded by a loving husband and relatives, whose kind hands smoothed the pathway whicli led down to the river's brink, where the bright hereafterliesjust beyonrj."