Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1903 — Wild Fears Prevailed at Kentland. [ARTICLE]

Wild Fears Prevailed at Kentland.

There were wild times in Rentland last Wednesday morning. The people over there are more or lees soared of the smallpox, on general principles, and they live in mortal terror of getting the brand of the disease we once had in Rensselaer in particular. In that respeot ae in many others, they are exactly opposed to the Goodland people The latter while they have no special hankering for the disease from any aouroe, would muoh prefer the* Rensselaer brand if they had to have it at all. But to return to the tronble in Kentland. It seems that Tuesday evening Judge Hanley and Reporter Walker went out to the home of a Mr. Williams, iu the north part of Kentland. and from there drove over to Sheldon. The Judge wanting to give his oolt a drive, and John wanted to see a cirous that was there. They stayed in Sheldon all night, and as it rained very hard the next morning, it was about 10 o’clock before they got back to Kentland. Arriving there they found the entire population of Kentland pranoing around on their hind legs and pawing the breeze with their front ones, over a report that both the Judge and Reporter had come down with the black, bine, green, or grizzly smallpox, at the home of the Mr. Williams above mentioned. He had no telephone and none of inhabitants dared approach his house □ear enough to enquire as to the truth of the report. And woqd was even sent to the state board of health at Indianapolis that there were two cases of smallpox in Kentland! Evidently the people of Kentland need to be sterilized for their soare microbes, and possibly inosculated with a few of the commoneense kind.