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Obituary

Lying behind the bar that he had tended for eighteen years Emanuel E. Zerber was found dead, last night, at the Smith and Dalton saloon on Third and Division streets. He died alone amid the bottles, the jugs and the glittering glasses that held red and green liquors colored and labeled somewhat like the potent drinks of a by-gone era but that were new innocuous. His outstretched hand touched the mahogany that it had often polished, but of all the hundreds of men who had pounded it with glasses and called greetings across its shining surface to the old bartender in other days not one was there to see him die. Dr. H.J. Strunk said his death was caused by heart failure. Frank Bouvia a friend of Zerber, had arranged to play a game of pool with him last evening, but when he went to the saloon about 6;30 o'clock he noticed that Zerber was not around. He sought him in the back room and not finding him there looked behind the bar. The man was lying face downward. When Dr. Strunk arrived, life was extinct. Friends of Zerber stated last night that he had been complaining of heart trouble for some time. Zerber, who lived at 807 South Main street, had been working in the Smith and Dalton place for fifteen years when Art Wagner bought it about three years ago, and he has been there ever since. his wife, Mrs. Loie Zerber, and daughter, Lillian Zerber, are in Iowa City, where the girl is a patient in a hospital. They were notified of his death last night. Zerber was about 50 years old. He also leaves a son, living in Burlington,