Unknown (-1881)

UNKNOWN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 11/12/2012 at 19:38:17

From June 8, 1881

Iowa Centre Items.

One of the hands employed on the fish contract was taken with the diptheria and brought to town, and placed in the care of Dr. Meyers for better treatment. Although a stranger the best of care was taken of him, but the dreaded disease had too strong a hold on his system, and death relieved him of his sufferings on Saturday. It was ascertained that his mother lived at some point in Illinois, but the telegraph failed to find her, and on Sunday morning the last words of hope and eulogistic enconimus were pronounced over the corpse by Rev. J. W. Lewis, and it was consigned to its last resting place in Woodland cemetery, the Rev. J. W. Lewis made the sad event the theme of his morning discourse.