Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1908 — JACOB WILDBERG DEAD. [ARTICLE]

JACOB WILDBERG DEAD.

Former Rensselaer Boy Dies of t Malarial Fever at Colgate Ok. Our people were given another ock Saturday morning when a telegram was received here by relatives that Dr. Jacob Wildberg had died at his home in Colgate, Okla., ’ where he was located in the practice of dentistry. Only a little over a month ago he was here to attend the funeral of his father, Louis Wildberg, and bis friends here had not learned that he was sick until the sad news of his death came. The remains were brought here Sunday night, arriving on the 11:04 train, and were taken to Wright’s undertaking parlors. Monday morning they were taken to the residence of Mrs. Appa Tuteur on Division street, and the funeral services were held there at 1:8Q Monday afternoon, conducted by a Jewish Rabbi from Chicago, and Dec raked was 27 years and 5 months old, and* about ten years of htis life he had lived with his parents in Rensselaer, locating in Colgate some two or three years ago, ( He was a promising young man and his sudden death Is a great blow to his relatives and friends. Me was married a little more than a year ago, and leaves a wife but no children. His mother, who lately moved to Peoria, 111., was 1 sick in bed and unable to attend the funeral. She and one sister, Mias Edna Wildberg, with the widow, survive him. The death certificate stated that he died of malarial fever, but we understand it was really tphold fever from which he died. It seems that when be went back to Colgate from attending his father’s 'funeral here last month, hiß wife ’who accompanied him here, stopped In Chicago to visit her people. Some two weeks ago Jake was found lying in a faint in his office. He was cared for and a telegram sent to his wife, who hurried to his bedside, but he never got up, and today lies burled be--1 side the father whose funeral he had attended only about six weeks before.

THIS W4S A GOOD YEAR FOR ;/• ,*• % ■ BEES, pfchilip Paulus of Newton tp., Has given “bee culture” considerable attention the past few years, and oh a small scale has been very successful : ln handling them. The past season, from 15 stands, he harvested 1,200 pounds of honey, which he has sold in Rensselaer, Ooodland and Btook at 12 H cents per pound, or slso—slo per, stand for one season. This yield is an exception rather than the rule with nandlers of bees in this locality, however. The past season has been an exceptlonably good summer for the bees to gather honey—a white clover season, as bee growers call it—and it is only about once in four or five years that we get a good growth of white clover with the necessary dry weather to save its honey from being washed off the blossoms. A wet season 1b not good for bees, and they will harvest very little honey. During what is called a good honey flow, Mr. Paulus says, a stand of bees will make from 10 to 15 pounds of honey per day, which is certainly “going some.” Mr. Paulus sold a stand of bees last spring to Mrs. Mark Reed, west of town, for $3:50. Mark didn’t think much of bees, and told his wife that she was throwing the $3.50 away; that the beeß would likely die, and that she wouldn’t get any honey from them. From this one stand she has got tvo new swarms or stands this Season and 170 pounds of honey! The honey at present prices would bring her $21.25 and the two new stands are worth $7, or $28.25 profit in about eight months on a $3.50 investment. And Mark loses the satisfaction of telling his wife “I told you so,” too.