Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1913 — SCHOOL HOUSE WELL CAUSE OF SICKNESS [ARTICLE]

SCHOOL HOUSE WELL CAUSE OF SICKNESS

Rumors That It Had Been Poisoned 'Use Discontinued and Sample to Be Examined. Remington Press. A well at the Green school house northeast of town, is supposed to be causing a great deal of trouble, j A number of cases of quite serious illness have occurred which cases have taken on the nature of some kind of poisoning. Just what it is or what has caused it is of the wildest conjecture, but as the cases have all been among the school children it is, considered highly, probable that the wejl at the school house is responsible. The use of the water has been discontinued, the pump handle taken off and a sample of the water sent to the state chemist for analysis. Wild rumors of poisoning the well have been afloat, but this is a driven well 170 feet deep and cased up to the pump. It seems entirely improbable that such was the case. However, the outcome of the analysis is awaited anxiously.