that I have cut from the home papers here 

 and had this plate made from. 



I am more than pleased to record here that 

 the daughter was allowed to get well, but be- 

 fore she was able to be up we were destmed 

 to meet up with a loss by death that had more 

 to do with our financial outcome in .Missouri 

 than at first glance it would seem possitjle for 

 it to. That was on the 21st of September, 1910, 

 a telegram was received telling of the death ol 

 Mr. H. I). Cook in the interurban wreck at 

 Kingsland. Ind.. whc.e some other forty persons 



fields, rotted the down corn in the fields and 

 in many ways added to the farmer's loss ac- 

 count. The corn in our low land fields was in 

 water up to the ears and that we did not lose 

 more than we did was a wonder. This sure 

 gave numbers of the newcomers the blues and 

 a Mr. Waite who had been holding out for $88 

 per acre for his land, dropped to $80 very 

 quickly. 



Had to record the loss of another of my 

 horses this day. 



October 5th, 1010. To the southwest c.f our 



Mr. and Mrs. Ma 

 Switch have a little girl live ye»i^s old 

 who IS seriously ill ' 

 mouth while convales 



ith noma of the 

 ■ing from typhoid. 



F f 1 Jim Lee who was threatened with ty- 

 " phoid fever has recovered and is again 

 rthis ga(,|, at his restaurant 



I tc 



ik^'Sioii, his bee 

 . with ivph.'ihl fcvtr. His 

 nf th.-ir six ohi'Jren hav 

 I1..1I the last i 



i-i liv.air n 

 r sometime 

 /ife and five 

 been ill in 

 one of the 



, h IJr.'ii h iviiii; typhoid also. Two 

 decs di>iled the duty of attending 

 the si ve;:il patients. 



|lVAKELLEli,l2, DIEO 



OF TYPHOID TUESDAY! 



Protect .voiirsclf bom typhoid 

 by drinkinrr Lmiciifle ;il THE 



|Reni;iliis Taken To Washington, 

 hid , !^orBuriai--Short Illness. 



^Hce I'weddle, who is now recovermg 

 Ifrom a seige of typl.oid fever, will re- 

 "me l,is work with Chesley Cemant | 

 ICorslruclion company. This compar 

 Luil.ling up the lurn out whit 

 , ,0 mfield snffered a year ago. 



I i Mrs. Oella Caudry of Gillispie. 111. 

 larrived home last week to visit hei 

 Isister, Miss Maud Wilson, who is re 

 Icuperating from 



The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. .James 

 Cutrell. who live south of Sikeston. is 

 recovering from a live weeks' seige of 

 typhoid. T 



la Keller, the twelve-year-old daugb- 

 ItiT of J. M. Keller, the well known 

 farmer living west of Sikeston four 

 ■ 's,.died Tuesday night at 10 o'clock. 

 Typhoid fever was the cause of death. 

 She had been ill only a few days when 

 end lame to the great sorrow of 

 the parents and u host of friends who 

 knew the little girl well. 



Mr. Keller and his family moved to 



this country some few years ago from 



I Indiana and have established them- 



ScoLI*^'"^? as among . the most reliable and 



.. conscientious farmers who have come 



lOr t from the older states to make the new 



soil of this country produce its bounte- 



ful crops. Mr. Keller is most favorably 



known in the community and his most 



■nt loss by death of a member of 



his family is suffered by many otVierg 



than his immediate family. 



.Mi-s Mjud Wilson is again experi- 

 ming fever, after having all but re- 

 overed from her sie ge of typhoid. 



Frank Lcmlcy 15. died Sunday noon | 

 of typhoid fever and was buried Monday, ■' 



.^esse Greer who has be 

 II of typhoid fever is still conhii 

 bed. 



The little son of H. G. Kaiser whol 

 has typhoid is getting along very nicely, [ 



Joe Twiddle of Bebe. Ark., 

 taken down with typhoid fever whileil 

 visiting the fair, is improving now and J 

 will soon return home. He has been 

 at Mrs. Scott's. .< .- - ''■■'■' " /'' 



lIPiiHiMPHH 



George Greathouse hns been contin 

 to his bed the last week with typhoid' 

 fever. 



i"j The 18-months old boy of Mr. ami 

 r^ 'Mrs. John Crosno died Wednesday 



I and will be hurled today Typhoid |, J 

 *" I fever was the cause of death. 



t Master Claud Billings has recov 

 'red from a siege of typhoid fever* 

 and will attend si hool next 



JimXee, proprietor of the Southside [ 

 Cafe, is ill at home threatened 

 typhoid fever. 



U J. A. Feetinbiirgher Is sick thh 

 Iwoek with typlioi.l fever. 



J. W. Snively, who farmed five miles i 

 I ,p°"'" °' Sikeston, died of typhoid fever 

 I luesday and his remains were sent to 

 I t_o.umbus, Ind., for burial Wednesday. I 

 I Heleaves a wife and two children lie 

 I had been here four years and wast 

 I limable gentleman He was 37 vears ' 

 luf age. ' * 



Miss Ida Holley who has been v«?ry I 

 ill with typhoid fever for the laot | 

 two weeks is much better at this v 



Mrs Leo Dumsy, living about four i 

 miles west of town, and two daughters 

 are in critical condition from a serious 

 attack of typhpid fever. There is some 

 doubt of their complete recovery at 

 this time. 



Several Are HI. 

 Miss Pauline Dumey, who has been | 

 I waiting on the sick ather brother Leo's, 

 I ever since the death of his w^fe, is now | 

 I io bed at her mother's, Mrs, Magda- 

 I lens Dumey, here in town, with a 

 I severe attack of typhoid fever. 



iilza BilU i» improving from iyphoid. 



|, j.<r Tweldle has recovered from 



I typhoid far enough to permit of his 



I returning to Bloomfield the latter part 



of this week ^ ' 



Some Typhoid Fever Clippings. 



lost their lives, and, as he was the brother of 

 Mrs. Studabaker, she left at once to attend the 

 funeral. As 1 mentioned in the beginning of 

 this history, that Mr. H. D. Cook had made it 

 possible for us to purchase this land, naturally 

 his taking aw^ay put us in the position of it 

 being necessary for us to close up our venture, 

 as it was, virtually, a partnership affair. How 

 we succeeded and the help we had will appear 

 as we go along. 



October 3d, 1910, we had one of those rains 

 that the old timers like to remember and talk 

 about and real estate agents and land men like 

 to forget. Records from Cape Girardeau give 

 it as nine inches — local people gave it as six 

 and eight inches. Anyhow, it was lots of water 

 and it put most everything afloat. It sure 

 spoiled all the pea hay that was curing in -the 



home there was a cypress slough and the big 

 rain sure filled it to overflowing and awakened 

 all the frog population. Hearing such a noise 

 on the morning of this date in that direction 

 we could not make out what it was and I went 

 to investigate, with the results that I found it 

 was made by the thousands of frogs in the 

 slough. 



A gentleman who was working for us in the 

 fall of 1912 and who had been at work on one 

 of the dredge boats. Mr. J. T. Scott, tells a 

 frog storv that has a good deal of bearing on 

 this country. We were speaking of the malaria 

 and chill conditions living on one of these 

 dredge boats and naturally being in the swamps 

 all the time and he said, "Yes, there was lots 

 of malaria and chills down there, for three frogs 



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