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- Saturday morning Mrs. G. W. HOLLIDAY, Milton, received
word from Milwaukee
- that her son, Ardwin [Dale] BLISS, was dead as the
result of an accident. When she and her daughter, Irene BLISS,
arrived in the city they learned that the auto in which he was
a passenger had collided with a street car.
- William ERBS, 20, son of Henry ERBS of Evansville
and formerly of Milton, driver
- of the car, is being held in Milwaukee on a manslaughter
charge. Other occupants of the car, Frank URBAN and Harlow
ZIEBELL, both of Fort Atkinson, and the driver were cut
and bruised. Ardwin was thrown through the windshield and his
skull fractured.
- Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon in the G. W.
HOLLIDAY home, Rev.
- Carroll L. Hill officiating. Kenneth BABCOCK sang.
Burial was made in Milton Junction cemetery. Pallbearers were
Kenneth EMERSON, Wayne DAVIDSON, Charles FANNING,
Merle VAN HORN, Barney CARROLL and Elton VAN
HORN.
- Ardwin BLISS was born Sept. 26, 1915, at Milton Junction.
He attended school in
- both villages. He spent some time at a CCC camp at City Point
and later was with the Davey tree surgeons in the east. The past
month he had been with his uncle, Harvey CLARKE, Milton
Junction route 2. Friday night he and his companions were in
Milton before starting on that disastrous trip to Milwaukee.
- Survivors are his mother and sister of Milton, his father
Arthur BLISS, Burlington; his
- grandfather, Fred BLISS, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and several
uncles and aunts. [Thursday edition, p. 1]
-
- [Note: Ardwin's birth certificate states he was born September
19, 1915.]
-
- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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