Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-01-06
OOlNGS SATURDAY
Into The Shadows


The first victim of poliomyelitis
in WatertoWn is the five year old
boy Of Frank Schultz, who lives in
Utah street in the Seventh ward. The
little fellow fell sick on Sunday Par
alysis Of the upper eXtremities ap
peared on Tuesday night and death
closed the scene at s o'clock last ev
eniug. This dread disease which
has claimed so many victims during
the past two years with a mortality
of 10 per cent, has claimed the at
tention of investigators all over the
world. The mortality is only 10 per
cent but the dire results to the sur
yivors liz that the vast majority are
left crippled, makes the disease more
dreaded than any other epidemic in
lection.
1t is an infectious disease as has
been demonstrated recently by Dr.
Simon F'leXner of the Rockefeller In
stitute, whose experiments on mon
keys showed conclusively that it can
be transmitted by virus from one
person to another. The medical pro-
fession are, he says, as yet helpless
in the matter. 1t is impossible to
make a diagnosis until the paralysis
appears, and then the damage is
done. We may indulge in the hope
that as the discovery has been made
that the disease is infectious, that
some remedy may be found to cope
with its ravages.
The disease is commonly known
as infantile paralysis.
The many friends in Watertown
and elsewhere of Mrs. James D.
Casey will be shocked and sorry to
learn of her death which occurred
this afternoon in the family home,
407 Washington street, following an
attack Of liver trouble which confined
her to bed the greater part Of the
past month. Although her demise
was not unexpected to her immedi-
ate family, the blow will fall none
the less heavy on those who are left
TO mourn their loss. Mrs. Casey was
native of New York city where she
was born in 1S4S. She came to this
section with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Healey, when a baby
and has since resided here. She was
woman Of kindly impulses, a de-
voted wife and mother, whose loss
in which she lived so long. Hers
was a christian life, devotion to home
and family being above all other con-
siderations. Although a sufferer for
weeks she bore her ills with patience
and christian fortitude and goes to
her reward with the record of a we'll
spent life. Besides her husband,
several children survive: Irving Cas-
ey, Butte, Montana; Mrs. G. l. Wen
ker, Milwaukee; Mrs. F. j. Metzger,
Beaver Dam; Oliver Casey, Evelyn
Casey, Stella Casey, Simon Casey
and Cyrus Casey, WATERFOWL The
funeral will take place Tuesday
morning at 10 o'clock to ST. Bern
ards Catholic church.
The grim angel, death. has called
another old and respected resident of
Watertown to her reward in the per-
son of Mrs. William n. Hawkins, who
departed this life last evening. She
had been in poor health for some
time past but bore her sufferings
with christian fortitude until released
from earthly suffering by death.
Mrs. Hawkins maiden name was
Jane Smythe and was born in Dublin,
Ireland, July 3, 1885, and came to Wa
tertown in 1S4S. She was married
in 1868, two sons being born to the
union, George j. Hawkins, Madison,
and Charles e. Hawkins, New York
city Mrs Hawkins with her husband