Mrs. Alice Ives reached here with the body of her husband from Marengo, Iowa, over the Milwaukee railroad at 1:42 p.m. She was accompanied on her sad mission by Mr. Edward L. Ives, a brother of the deceased, Mr. R.P. Robinson, her nephew and Mrs. R.G. Pefham, a friend from Marengo.

They were met at the depot by as many of their friends and acquaintances as were aware of the time of arrival. The word received Saturday evening was that they would be here Monday evening, and this undoubtedly kept many from being present to pay their last respects to the departed one.

Rev. Hozier read a short service and offered prayer at the grave and the remains of our old-time associate were then lowered by loving, sorrowing friends into the bosom of "Mother Earth" by the side of his only, daughter, who preceded him by more than twenty years.

Mr. Ives and his estimable wife came here from Connecticut, his native state, in March 1883 when Manning had only been in existence one and one half years. He soon purchased the interest of Russell and Son, in the general merchandise store of Russell, Son & Sharp, and from that time until the spring of 1891 he was one of the prominent and widely known merchants of this city, conducting business under the firm name of Ives & Sharp, Ives &Dunning and Ives Bros.

He was a born merchant, in perfect accord with his chosen vocation. To his customers, affable, courteous and obliging, seemingly looking out for their interests equally with his own, and to his competitors gentlemanly and fair.

Honesty, industry and strict attention to business were the tenets of his business life, and full well did he live up to the high standard he had set for himself.

He built for himself and family the pleasant home now occupied by Mr. Chandler A. Emmons, but before it was ready for occupancy his young daughter succumbed to an attack of scarlet fever, and he was for some time at death's door with the same dread disease. From this blow he never fully recovered but always mourned for little "Alice."

Mainly for this reason he did not again engage in business here after the "big fire" in 1891, but traded the salvage of the stock for land. Eventually disposing of his property here, in 1893 he moved to Des Moines, residing there until the day of his death.

The sincere sympathy of all old friends in this community go out to the one who now mourns the loss of the companion with whom she has journeyed along life's rugged road for more than thirty years.
A friend.