Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1908 — S. IL BORDEN SERIOUSLY ILL. [ARTICLE]

S. IL BORDEN SERIOUSLY ILL.

No Hope for Recovery of Great Commander of Maccabees. Hartford City, Ind., November 25. —Steven B. Borden, great commander of the Maccabees' of Inditfina, and widely known over the State, is in a hospital at Detroit, Mich., where he recently underwent an operation, and the attending physicians state that he is suffering with cancer of the liver. They say there is no hope of his recovery. He will be brought to his home in this city as soon as he revives from the operation. Borden has been sick for more than a year. He was a councilman and twice a candidate for mayor on the Republican ticket. Mr. Borden was elected great commander of the Maccabees over Milo Merideth, of Wabash, at Goshen, in May, 1907.