Ernest Malachi Smith

"Last Friday morning about ten o'clock, Ernest Smith, who has had charge of the Mutual Telephone system in Hope for several years, was killed by coming in contact with a live electric wire while stringing a telephone wire." ..... "He leaves a wife (Augusta L. Stralow Smith) and a little daughter (Lola May Smith) one year and 3 months old, besides a mother (Mrs. Charles Elizabeth Smith), three brothers, four sisters and a host of friends to mourn his demise. Ernest was the youngest of the children, and the first to take his departure to another world."

Father was Charles Smith (1835-1909)