Special to The News

Forney, Texas, Feb 24 - H. Soloman, one of the leading citizens and dry goods merchants of the town, died suddently today of heart failure. He went to the cotton yard just after noon to help check up some cotton, when he was suddenly taken ill and died before he could reach the local sanitarium. He has been in the dry goods business in Forney for twenty-five years. He leaves a wife and two children, Mrs. Abe Label of Terrell and Nathan Soloman of Forney. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, K. of P. and I.O.O.F. The funeral arrangements have not been announced.