Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1900 — The Conns Peppered Kentland [ARTICLE]

The Conns Peppered Kentland

At the time of the first, recognition of the existence of small-pox, in the Conn family, east of Comer, the fact was noted by us that another Conn family had broken quarantine and left for parts unknown. It now appears that one of these decamped and exposed families brought up at Kentland. It was Mr. and Mrs. George J Conn, and' two children. They arrived at the home of Mrs. Conn’s mother, Mrs. D. Heil, in Kentland, on Sept. 11th, and Mrs. Conn was sick at the time. It was 3 days however before her disease was recognized as smallpox, and by that time several neighboring fanlilies bad been exposed, as well as the Heil family with six members. Also a minister, who made .a sick call at the bouse. All the exposed parties ' have been quarantined and it is i hoped to prevent any very exten- ' sive spread cf the disease. That. I there will be quite a number of ' cases, however, in spite of all pre--1 cautions, is practically certain.