Solomon Dill Rouls, 84, former mayor of the city of Tipton, and one time a well known business man here, died at Angola Friday morning of complications incident to advanced age. Short funeral services will be held at Angola Saturday morning and then the body will be brought to the Leatherman Morris funeral home to lie in state until last rites are conducted at the funeral home at 2:00 p.m. Sunday. Burial will be at Fairview cemetery Monday morning. Mr. Rouls was born in Arcadia on April 25, 1857, a son of William and Phoebe (Dill) Rouls, and was reared on his father's farm in Cicero township, securing an exceptionally good education, after completing the course in the district schools and attending the normal schools and at Danville and Valparaiso. Later he taught school for nine years and in 1890 engaged in the real estate insurance and loan business and in May 1912, became associated with lee Leavell in the same business. In 1888, he was elected city clerk of Tipton, being the first Republican to hold that office in the history of the city. In 1892, he was honored by election to the mayoralty and served one term with credit and honor to himself and to the city. On May 30, 1888, he was united to Mary Lilly, daughter of Greenbury and Eliza Wright Lilly and to this union were born three children; Fred a farmer near Detroit; Mary Gwendolyn, wife of Stanley Springer of near Windfall, and Lilly, who died in infancy. The mother died in 1905. Mr. Rouls on December 30, 1908, married Eva Ardella Hogg, daughter of Taylor and Jane Price Hogg of Kokomo. To this union was born a daughter, Janalyce, who teaches school in Angola. Survivors, in addition to the children mentioned above, include the wife and a sister, Lydia, in the state of Washington.