Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1907 — JUNIOR STUDENT DIES OF TYPHOID. [ARTICLE]

JUNIOR STUDENT DIES OF TYPHOID.

A very sad death and one that will greatly mar the closing of the high school occurred Wednesday night, the victim, Miss Lillian being one of the most popular' and deserving members of the Junior class. j For the past three years Lillian had been a student in the Rensselaer high schooL She was 17 years of age and one of the seven child. ren of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rarph* living 4 miles south of Wheatfield, and her parents being in moderate circumstances.it was necessary for, her to make her own way thru school, and for two years here she hftd earned her board by working at the homo of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Psrkinson, and the past year at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Be r t Brenner. She was a sweet dispositioned girl, studious and ambitious aud often referred to her determination —•— * - ■ to complete school here, then to tiaoh and thimearu her way thru college. pie. popular with both teachers and school mates and hen death has cast a deep gloom over the Junior class, which takes so. active a part in assisting the Seniors in the decorations, etc, lor the commencement. The class sent a large box of flowers to her parents Friday morning, expressing, their sorrow at her death. When Lillian, wept to. her home Friday evening, May 3rd, she seemed in her nsoal health, bnt on Monday she was taken siek and was Unable to leave her home. Her physician Boon decided that her case was; typhoid lever and the young patient, tailed rapidly until death. The luneral will be he’d at the home near Wheatfield Saturday afternoon at 1 o’clock.