Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1911 — New Fever Raging at Pleasant Grove; Many are Aftlicted. [ARTICLE]

New Fever Raging at Pleasant Grove; Many are Aftlicted.

A fever Is raging at Pleasant Grove and peculiarly affects the male population only. According to a telephone message received at an early hour this Tuesday morning by The Republican, every male inhabitant of the country surrounding Pleasant Grove is stricken, with a single exception, and the well one seems immune to the disease. He is working diligently to prevent mortality, but fears that many deaths will result Strangely, the physicians have not been called Into the case. A specialist by the name of Charles Moody, who is considered a first-class authority in mental diseases, the mind seemingly being the trouble center, has pronounced the disease Cubs fever or Cubltis. He has prescribed a big Sox pill, but the fever victims have been unable to swallow the dose and Dr. Moody expects a number of deaths to result The serum treatment in bottles was tried ineffectually by most of the victims. The im patients took suddenly worse Sunday night when x it was learned that “Doc" White, of the south side, Chicago, had confirmed the diagnosis of Dr. Moody and advocated a still larger pill. Having been unable to swallow the one prescribed by Dr. Moody, the discouraged fever victims are resigned to their fate and an occasional sickly grin is about all that is left of the once jubilant Cub fanatics. The fever was at its highest point Monday when word was received by special wireless that a big swarm of Comiskey rooters had invaded the west side ball park in Chicago and that the Sox players had made three runs right off the reel. Then the wireless spluttered the information that rain had stopped the onslaught of the fever producers and the stricken Cub fans slightly revived and the fever sank a few degrees. Today Dr. Mordecal Brown will undertake to further reduce the fever of the Cubites. Dr. Ed Walsh will also get in on the case and it is expected there will be a wide diversion of opinion as to the treatment. Dr. Brown, it is understood, favors reducing the size of the pills, while Dr. Walsh advocates making them still larger. If Dr. Brown is successful it is possible that the stricken victims may recover, but if Dr. Walsh has his way, the victims will all die and Dr. Moody will sit as coroner and then act as undertaker. The situation is intense and Dr. Moody says that it is distressing to see a number of*wellmeaplng, but misguided men helplessly grasping at straws in an effort to allay their mental anguish. r , Dr. Moody expects to decorate his auto in mourning for ths decadence of Cub enthusiasm and to stream Sox pennants profusely over the ramparts. The developments are being watched with breathless interest.