Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-14
LEADING LODGE MAN AND RED
CROSS NURSE AMONG
VICTIMS.
WILL W. FELKNER AND
RoWENA SPENCER DEAD
Seven Fatalities Reported From Uni.
versity and City Since Saturday
Hospital Records Show Marked De-
crease in New Cases-Epidernic in
Training Corps Believed Checked.
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iowa City. Oct. 14.-Death. proverb-
tally loving shining mark struck
| down two more prominent victims of
| Spanish influenza, followed by pneu-
monia, Sunday.
One was VIII w. F'elkner a leading
Elk, past exalted ruler of the local
lodge. Mason. and insurance man, and
| the other was Miss Rowena Spencer,
head nurse of the pediatries depart
ment at the university hospital.
Mr.. F'elkner was In his thirty first
year. He was born in Downey, Cedar
| county. and passed most of his life
here. He was student in the college
Of applied science thru his sophomore
year. and afterwards taught school at
South English. where he pet his wife,
then Miss Lottie Lesser. who survives.
His widowed mother is in California
and his sisters. Wilma, of New York
city. a nurse. and Mesdanres Ida Cot
feen and Anna Felkner Hall. of Chi
cago. were also absent when death
came suddenly to him. Sunday morn
ing.
Nurse Gives Her Life.
Stricken while nursing scores OF
other afflicted ones, Miss Spencer died
Sunday afternoon at 3 O'Clock.
She was - years Of age and was the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred w.
Spencer, formerly OF Eagle Grove, and
later OF West Philadelphia, Pa, and
Ellis Island, at which point Mr..
Spencer is United States government
ship builder Mr.. and Mrs. Spencer
arrived in time to bid their daughter
goodbye.
Miss Spencver was a Red Cross
nurse and was awaiting her call when
the epidemic broke out here.
She had been head nurse in the S. U.
!. pediatrics department since New
Years, 1916. Prior to that time she
had served three years in the children's
ward, Memorial hospital, Chicago,
where she was graduated. She was
also prominent in infant welfare work
in Chicago and Iowt City. Her brother
in-law and sister. MT. and Mrs. John
Tyck, of Eagle Grove, were summoned
hither, ard arrived Sunday. ere she
died.
Soldier Boy Dies.
One soldier boy died Sunday. He
was O. L. circuit. of Swan, Iowa. He
ras 10 wears old, and came into the
freshman engineering class Oct. !. as
a member Of the college of applied
science and tle s. A. T. G. His mother.
| Mrs. B. D. circuit, was summoned
from their Marion county home. and
was with him when the end came. He
will be given a military. but private,
funeral and the body viii be sent to
Swan for interment-
Pneumonia, following influenza, also
caused the death of Miss Eva Macho-
vec. Sunday. She was the daughter OF
Frank Machovec, a local mail carrier,
and sister Of two other mail carriers,
William and Joseph Machovec. Nov. 3
would have been her 21st birthday.
She was born and reared in Iowa City.
Still Other Deaths.
Daniel Barry, Of the Iowa City posi-
office carrier force, Is also bereaved.
his son. Allen, 17-year old high
school boy, dying. His son. Robert
also is dangerously Ill of the same dis
ease-pneumonia, from influenza-at
Camp Dodge.
Nelson West, aged 10, a Council
BIUl1S ldO, III Tic ioSpit"i h|iS' Ni~N
of the same disease. Still another
victim is Fred L. White, a teamster.
One Of the most prominent victims
| Of Saturday was Mrs. Raymond Sla'
| vata, formerly Loretta Welsh daugh.
ter OF former Sheriff. J. w. Welsh
| She was talented musician, both as
| vocalist and instrumentalist, and ~alsc
participated in many plays and othe1
| public entertainments. The Iowa
| City Elks always starred her III theii
plays.
Ratio 10 Decreasing.
| Despite these fatalities the ratio OF
Spanish influenza cases are decreasing
| rapidly. From forty to sixty high
the number OF incoming patients a
the isolation hospitals have decreased
to seventeen and twelve on consecutive
nights. Easing their predictions on tina
hopeful report the local physicians ano
surgeons believe the S. A. T. c. case!
are well under control and that thu
epidemic Is beaten. This refers to thu
soldier camp only. The city's cases
are still exceedingly numerous and th'
daily toal OF 100 or so is fraught with
many pneumonia possibilities. The
army camp has about thirty pneumo
MIA cases. itself, relics Of the fadint
| plague, and these. in many instances
| are dangerous.
| Ida Grove Soldier Dies. I
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