Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1918 — A DEATH AT COUNTY HOSPITAL [ARTICLE]

A DEATH AT COUNTY HOSPITAL

Charles Sells, a young German boy aged about 19 years, who was employed as a farm hand by Algie Martin, 5 miles southwest of Morocco, was brought to the county hospital Sunday evening, in Wright’s ambulance, suffering from pneumonia, but the doctors were unable to safe his life, and he passed slway at about 11 p. m. Monday night. The body was taken to the

Wright undertaking rooms and prepared for burial, but is being held pending getting into communication with the boys’ father, who resides at Hanover, Pennsylvania. Mr. Martin himself is down sick with influenza, it is said, and there has been three or four deaths from the disease in and about Morocco, Mrs. Vern Pollock being the last victim, she having died Mopday night. Foster Brunton of Mt. Ayr accompanied the remains to Kentucky.