Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1909 — COLLEGE A PESTHOUSE [ARTICLE]

COLLEGE A PESTHOUSE

Gymnasium a Hospital Caring For Fifteen Smallpox Patients. Liberty. Mo.. Feb.' 12. William Jewel) college has been closed by an outbreak of smallpox. Fifteen of the institutions’s 600 students are aitlicted with the disease and the entire school dormitory is quarantined. • The college gymnasium has been converted into a hospital.