The funeral of Mrs. Dr. Wm. Binzley was held at her late residence on School House street, Friday afternoon, the Reverend M. L. Donahey officiating. Many were the friends who participated in these last sad rites of one who was universally popular in life and whose death was the greatest of griefs; whose departure, so unexpected, again proved the truth of that much need quotation, "In the midst of life we are in death." There has, perhaps, been no death in Napoleon for years that has so completely wrapped the community in sorrow: none that has taught us all more forcibly that death is indeed terrible, especially when the subtle messenger choses for its prey one who has so much to live for and in whose temporal existence rests the happiness of so many. Mrs. Binzley's life has been one of much sorrow, through which in passing she has patiently endured more than her share of poignant grief; yet all knew her to manifest an inordinate degree of cheerfulness a means to bring up her family of three children and clothe life for them, not all in gloom and despair A bride of only three months, with the shadows grown dim in the narrow aisles of the past, with apparently only sunshine and flowers for the future pathway of her and hers, death seems unusually cruel in this mission. That her memory will long remain green to us all, that her sad fate will never be effaced as it now stands one deeply regretted by all Napoleon we .have every reason to believe. She was an active member of the Presbyterian church and an earnest worker in the Sunday school, having been the teacher of a large class of young girls for years; also a member of the Women's Relief Corps. A token of esteem in which she was held, was manifested by the profusion, and beauty of the floral tributes laid at her bier by tender hands, prompted by loving and aching hearts. Her class, teachers and superintendent, Christian Endeavor Society and the young ladies and gentlemen of the church, presented these memorials, the last being a mute expression of sympathy for her daughter "who is left motherless when she most needs a mother's guiding hand." Dr. Binzley the bereft husband is one of our most prominent citizens and with him in this great hour of trouble is all Napoleon with a great heart full of sympathy.