Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1915 — J. H. S. Ellis Recovering From Very Severe Illness. [ARTICLE]

J. H. S. Ellis Recovering From Very Severe Illness.

Mrs. A. H. Hopkins, who went to Chicago to see her brother, James H. S. Ellis, who had been ill at the home of her son, Dr. John Ellis, returned Thursday evening. She found that Mr. Ellis had been a very sick man and that he is yet unable to sit up and will probably not be well enough to return home for some two weeks. His trouble was not influenza as had been thought probable by his sister before her visit there, but was articular rheumatism. He had been feeling draggy for several weeks and had been taking treatment in the city for his nose and this member had become quite seriously infected. It is probable that the rheumatic trouble was contracted when he made a trip through southern Illinois with the Willette Taylor stock company, as he came home feeling a little off color and did not get to feeling right at any time after. He is now over the worst part of his sickness unless complications set in and his many friends are hoping that he will soon be restored to health and able to return here.