Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1900 — Smallpox In White County. [ARTICLE]

Smallpox In White County.

William Coar is confined at his home in Norway, a little village three miles above Monticello on the Tippecanoe river, with a mild case of smallpox. Mr. Coar recently returned from j a visit to Kentucky, where he contracted the disease He family has been quarantined and everything possible is being done to prevent the disease from spreading. One feature which makes the neighbors of Coar uneasy is the fact that a wedding occurred recently at his house and there were a number of people present who are thought to have been exposed. - r