Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1901 — The Small Pox in Fowler. [ARTICLE]

The Small Pox in Fowler.

That smallpox case in Fowler oocured under circumstances which have justly caused great fear of a Wide spread of the contagion. The subject was a wandering “hobo” who came to Fowler some time before he developed the disease and was given shelter by one of the town bakers, Frank Confer, and by him employed to deliver bread to his customers. He was around town several days after be got sick before the nature of his disease swas known. After the nature of his sickness was known a ptst house was hurriedly erected and the sick man placed in it and Confer, the baker, was shut up in it "With- him. His family was quarantined in their house, and the bakery where the hobo lodged was burned down The schools have been closed and all public meetings forbidden. No other cases have developed and the people are beginning to breathe easier.