STOUT BURIED HERE

Saturday morning the body of James Stout arrived in Blair from Colorado Springs, Colo., and was taken to the Blair Cemetery where after short services, it was lowered in the grave. James Stout was born and raised in this section of the country and was well known in Sioux City, Omaha, and other cities where he had a various times conducted drug stores. For several years he had been a victim of tuberculosis and of late had been gradually sinking and on Thursday the end came. Many people from Tekamah were at the depot when the train bearing his remains arrived. Stout was a man about forty years of age and leaves a wife and family.

~~~Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library~~~