Port
Dover, July 18. -- Yesterday at 4;30 p.m., while bowling with friends,
John R. Davis, in his twenty-fifth year as customs officer here, was
seized with a paralytic stroke.
The services of
Dr. A. H. Cook were secured quickly, and all possible was done, but he
died at 7 o'clock.
Mr. Davis was an
ex-President of the local bowling club and President of the Board of
Trade.
He leaves a wife,
three daughters: Mrs. F. L. Grice, Hamilton; Mrs. Albert Hopkins, St.
Louis, and Miss Sadie, at home, and one son, William, on the Canadian
Government Service steamer Vigilant.
He was a
Conservative and an Anglican, a member of Dover Lodge, A.O.U.W., Past
Grand of Norfolk Lodge, I.O.O.F., and Past Master of Erie Lodge, No.
149, A.F. & A.M., which last will conduct a Masonic funeral on
Monday or Tuesday, being contingent on when Mrs. Hopkins can reach
here. He was also President of the local branch of the Upper Canada
Bible Society.
He was born in
England and was in his sixty-fourth year. He was a public-spirited
citizen, taking energetic part in matters pertaining to the welfare of
the town.
Himself a lover
of manly sports, he had been quietly corresponding for some time back
to secure the Riddell property on First avenue for a public
playground, realizing that the growth of the village was rapidly
lessening the number of suitable sites for this purpose.
