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FRIENDS WEEP AS FATHER AND SON
ARE LAID AWAY

Impressive Services Held Over the Bodies of Two Mine Victims

      Many friends of years standing, people who had known father and son and had been intimately associated with them in a business and social way, were present yesterday afternoon to pay their last respects fo Joseph Lewis, Sr. and Joseph Lewis, Jr., whose funeral took place from the Methodist Church at two o'clock.  The biers were banked high with floral offerings, the remembrance of friends, while the sermon, touching on its nature, was delivered by the Rev. T. C. Collister.

     Previous to the removal of the bodies to the church for ifnal services, the bodies of father and son were viewed by scores of friends and neighbors at the family home, 114 Seventh Street, word having gone that the caskets would not be opened at the church.

     The Elks of Citor attended the servicesin a body, the younger Lewis having been a member in good standing of the Victor lodge.   Tears were shed by friends of the two men who were popular among all who knew them.

     The two Lewis' met instant death last Saturday afternoon while at work at the Ajax mine on Battle mountain.  The two men were working in an old shaft when an old surface stope caved plunging them to the level below, a distance of 150 feet.

     Deceased are survived by Mrs. Lewis and widow of the elder Lewis and her son, Clarence, aged 18 years, a student in the Victor high school. 

     Interment took place at Sunnyside Cemetery. --Victor, Colo. Exchange.

     Lewis, Sr. was a brother of A. B. "Bud" Lewis and Mrs. J. C. Hawkins of Bonne Terre, and the above will be of interest to their many friends.

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