COMPULSORY BACHELORISM & SMALL POX

FLETCHER, WESTFALL, STOVER, TULL, SCHOTTE, BURDICK, TURL

Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 3/11/2007 at 15:02:02

The Chariton Patriot
Chariton, Iowa
February 28, 1875

COMPULSORY BACHELORISM. -- When a man lives a bachelor from choice, he
deserves no pity. But the lately organized bachelors club of Ottercreek, are
certainly deserving of the best wishes of their neighbors and friends.
Small-pox did it. We learn that Messrs. FLETCHER & Son, WESTFALL, STOVER,
and others were at lodge in company with a person whose name is not known to
us, (some ten days since) and that the person referred to, has since been
taken down with Small-pox, and the above named persons of Ottercreek design
corraling" themselves to await results. If this be true it is a sad case,
there were exposed on that occasion about 40 persons, we understand.
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In another column of the same date:

THE SMALL-POX. -- We are now able to state, that so far as we can learn,
there is not a case of Small-pox in Chariton; although we are sorry to have
to mention also that all the cases heretofore mentioned (four in number) at
the Depot House, have died; the last one, that of MRS. TULL, the landlord's
wife, having been buried early Monday morning. The other deaths were a
young woman by the name of SCHOTTE, who died on Saturday night; a MRS. TULL,
recently married to a son of the landlord, who died a week ago last Sunday,
and MR. BURDICK who died two weeks ago on Sunday as before mentioned in the
Patriot. There is said to be a case or two of varioloid yet in the house,
but these are not considered dangerous.

In regard to the cases "In Newbern", as it is generally stated, we learn
from Dr. Baird, who is the attending physician, that the cases are five in
number, in a family by the name of TURL, living about three and a half miles
from Newbern, in this county, and that they are all improving, and will get
well.

We will also mention that we are in receipt of a letter from Liberty Center,
in the corner of Warren County, from which we learn that there have been
seven cases in all in that neighborhood, and two deaths, but that the
disease is not spreading, and no particular alarm is felt now concerning it.
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