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St. Cloud Times
January 3, 1928

                   HARDWARE STORE OWNER AT RICE
                   DIES ON MONDAY
                   
                   FERDINAND SCHMITT, Aged 62
                   Dead After Illness of Year
                    - Mass Thursday
                    
                   Rice, Jan. 3. - (Special to The Times)
                   - FERDINAND SCHMITT, aged 62 years, local
                 hardware merchant for the past 12 years, died
                 at 9 o'clock last night after a lingering
                 illness of a year.
                   Rev. NICKOLAS DONN*Y, pastor of the
                 Immaculate Conception church here will offi-
                 ciate at the funeral service at 9:30 o'clock
                 Thursday morning and burial will be made here
                 in the family lot of the Catholic cemetery.
                   For many years Mr. SCHMITT was the black-
                 smith at Rice, but later went into the hard-
                 ware business, building up one of the well
                 known firms of this town.
                   Besides his widow, one daughter, ESTELLE,
                 and two brothers and one sister who live at
                 St. Cloud survive.
                 
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