Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1918 — CHRISTMAS ALTER IS BETTER. [ARTICLE]

CHRISTMAS ALTER IS BETTER.

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis S. Alter, son Lester, and duaghter, Dortha Price, were in Rensselaer today. They were on their way home from Rockford, 111., where they had been to see Chrismas Alter, who had a very severe attack of Spanish influenza and pneumonia. They made the trip to and from Camp Grant in their automobile, having left their home last Sunday. They left Camp Grant last Wednesday and at that time Christmas was verp much improved. The promise has been made at Camp Grant that all pneumonia patients may have a thirty-day home furlough as soon as they are able to leave the hospital. Mr. Alter reports that 116 soldiers died at Camp Grant last Sunday. On Monday the number was 98 and Tuesday 93. Thenew cases are decreasing rapidly, also the fatalities are much less, and the authorities feel that they are fast getting the disease under control.