N.N. Rugg Dead.
The death of N. N. Rugg just reached us last week although his death occurred some two weeks ago. We were surprised at hearing that Father Rugg was dead. It seems only yesterday when his familiar figure was seen on our streets, but it has been about three months since he went to Grinnell to help in the management of a hotel at that place, as had always been his mission here, acting as one of the genial landlords at the Park Hotel at this place (Manning) for the past fourteen years and was greatly missed in and around the hotel when he left for Grinnell, where he was taken sick and immediately was sent to his home now at Omaha. On arriving there it was found that nothing but an operation would save his life, so he was taken to the hospital and the operation performed, but he never recovered from the shock.

Father Rugg was a quiet old gentleman, tending strictly to his own affairs, never meddling with other people's business and when trouble bore down upon him he never went around complaining but bore it all in silence and took the bitter with the sweet. He always had a pleasant word to say every time we met him, and seemed to be happy to sit down and visit a few minutes with his old Manning friends. After the family, his wife and son, Wilson, and family left Manning, he seemed to get very lonesome and always spoke of them at every opportunity. He was buried at Omaha, leaving beside his wife, one son, W.N. Rugg, to mourn the loss of a husband and father.