Salem (Indiana) Democrat, November 4, 1898, p. 1. NOTE: The item below was abbreviated from the original as noted by the ellipsis. DEATH OF RAY STEVENS Died-Sabbath morning, October 23rd, 1898, of heart failure, Ray Stevens, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Warder Stevens, aged 14 years, 3 months and 12 days. When the news was brought from "Brookside Farm" last Sabbath morning that Ray Stevens was no more, there was a universal expression of regret and sorrow from all classes-for Ray Stevens was known to all and loved by all. At his death a great sadness fell on our heart because that little friend was nameable no more among the living-among our hopes. Our heart went out in sympathy for the bereaved parents at Brookside, whom the requirements of the law prevented us from visiting. The day passed and night came. As we lay down silently naming over our friends whom we should commend to God, the tears sprang hot to our eyelids. Ray was a bright boy-an unusually bright boy. Everybody loved him and all knew him. As a pupil in the high school, he was perfect in his work with a mind splendidly fitted for literature and the natural sciences in which he excelled. He was well known at Purdue University by the Weather Department, having reported the weather conditions for that institution of learning and as an acknowledgement of his services had been presented with a splendid apparatus for taking observations. Ray was a lover of agriculture and was quite as familiar with the proper manner of conducting a farm as one more experienced in years.