Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

HURT – Mrs. Josephine Hurt of this city died in a sanitarium at Kansas City last Saturday, where she had been for about six weeks under treatment for melancholia and nervous prostration. The body arrived here Sunday and the funeral occurred at 4:30 p.m., the sermon being preached by Rev. Thos. F. Barrier of the Presbyterian church. The interment was in the Odd Fellows cemetery south of town. Mrs. Hurt was born in Bohemia 49 years ago and came to America with her husband about twenty years ago. She leaves her husband, A. J. Hurt of Lincoln, Neb., and five children, three girls and two boys, to mourn her departure from this life. Mrs. Hurt and three of her children – Emil, Rose and Emma – came to Blackwell about a year ago, purchasing the property on the north west corner of Main street and McKinley avenue, where Emil started a barbershop and Mrs. Hurt and her daughters worked at dressmaking. Emil afterwards purchased the barber shop of Ed Cornell, which he now operates. The other son, Ed., is a traveling man with headquarters at Lincoln, Neb., and could not be reached by telegraph to learn of his mother’s death, but the father was informed and attended the funeral. The other daughter, Mrs. J. T. Vaclin, lives at Salt Fork, Okla., and arrived here Saturday evening. The family came here from Abbie, Neb.