Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1908 — Death of Miss Harriet Parkison. [ARTICLE]

Death of Miss Harriet Parkison.

Mias Harriet M. Purkison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. R. Parklson, died Tuesday afternoon at shortly after 4 o’clock, at their home west of Rensselaer. Mias Parklson had beer In falling health for the past two years, and the latter pait of October last year went to California. In hope that the climate would restore her health. . She was there for several months, but did not improve, and as- j ter her return to this county every effort was made to forsta]l the progress of tuberculosis A tent house was made near the farm residence, and for weeks she has slept in It and lived out of doors, but all to no avail. A rapid decline was noticed a fewdays before her death, and the sorrowing parents and relatives were prepared for the sad end. Mias Parklson would have been 21 years of age next February. She was a graduate of the Rensselaer high school, being a member of the cla~s of 1906, and she was extermely popular with her classmates and with all of her large circle of friends. And all of these and also the many friends of the grief stricken parents will share In the sorrow at her untimely death. ' > I The funeral was held Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the M. K. church, being conducted by the pastor. Dr. H. L. Klndlg. Interment will be made in Barkley cemetery. ShS* * "T" - p k Roy Jones, aged it, tried to kill himself because Ids aweetbenit skated "Home Sweet Home'’ with another boy at Indianapolis Tuesday night, and he will probably loose his eye sight as a result of a bullet he tr.d Into his head. The girl says he bad no cause to be Jealous as she loved but him. • . .