The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1914-03-06
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aT this place tuc oSCOhu OuhuoS III
March. Rev. w. H. Cooper will
rreach at eleven o'clock.
We wish to thank our friends for
the kindness shown US during our re-
cent illness and especially those who
came near enough to inquire about
rs and our needs and those who were
thoughtful enough to write us notes
and letters of sympathy. We also
aDpreciate the kind remarks made
through the Journal by the Editress,
bv Ruby, Allen and A. B. C.'s. They
are worth more than all the flowers
that you could put on our casket.
A short sketch of my illness might
he of interest to our friends. We
have been asked the question, edo
YOU reckon you did have small pox."
Well, that is what the doctor said
and | believe he knew for he said he
had several other cases at the same
time. Well, how did you catch it?
Either on the public highway or on
the streets for we positively had not
been any where else with the eXcep-
ton of about three days it did not
hurt us as much as a real bad cold,
except the confinement. Our appe-
tite was normal. We ate three
meals each day and relished them.
They consisted of oatmeal and kettle
tea for breakfast, turnup salad, corn
bread, pig feet and buttermilk for
dinner. Potlicker, bread and milk
for supper. But the horrors of hav-
ing to stay shut up in one room for
twenty days when you could eat and
sleep a plenty and had not done any
one any harm, but would jeopardisa
your family, your friends, your
neighbOrs and violate the law be-
sides, in fact a man could not pc
blamed for serving you as he would
a mad-dOg. And the financial side
or expense of it was about $4,000.
We consider ourselves extremely
fortunate in securing the services Of
Mrs. P. A. Ludwig as nurse. She was
so kind, courteous and Industrious
and was so much company for our
better half who has taken the di-
sease nearly every day but has never
developed case yet, nor would we
have her do so for one thousand do
lars were it in our power to pre-
vent it.
1t was real amusing to see people
drive by the house under whips,
holding their breath looking the
other way-traveling the same road,
going to the same place where I
must have contracted it.
Well we employed our time by
studying the Sunday School lessons,
by reading the book of Job (and we
can sympathize with the poor old
fellow some now the acts of the
Apostles and John on the Isle of
Patmos, Then we got some daily
papers, the good old country papers,
the Jeffersonian, our church paper
and my farm Journals. They all
come regular and were read and en-
Joyed, even the advertisements.
Last, but not least, we invented
garden pillow that can be easily and
quickly changed to half a dozen diff
lerent plows and is destined to reV0
1uuonize garden work. | have had
THIS pillow in my mind for some time
and have searched all the catalogues
Oh the great supply houses that
could get, trying to find it, but all in
vain. l shall have it patented and
put on the market as soon as posi-
Die. This invention brought us near
lne third week of our Imprisonment,
We almost forgot to state that we
measured the space, counted the trips
ana walked two miles nearly every
Jay but by this time our hair being
already long and not having had a
shave IN four weeks we begin to re-
1"IAO ourself of Uncle John Beavers,
Oh Marietta, the one man who proba-
DIF has saved more lives than all the
doctors in town by cleaning out
hundreds of wells every year before
'Ae new water system was put in,
merely removing germs Of typhoid
ana other kindred diseases, also by
1epalrlng broken window panes and
heeplng la grippe out of many a
nome. After all uncle John seems
" De Just as enthusiastic over his
Work and we suspect that he enjoys
''7 and probably sleeps more and
Sounder than Col. John P. Cheney
Yonh ). Dobbins, w. S, N. Neal or ]
l anderson. Realizing the need of a
"'IDeT and being unable to procure
'"e We decided to set up chair OF
00I own and so we got a shave and
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