The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1918-12-13
LOCAL EVENTS


Mr.. Ed. Rostwick is seriously i'll
with bronchial asthma.
Miss Mae Waltz, who has been
seriously i'll with influenza, is re-
ported as improving.
A letter received Wednesday by
Mr.. and Mrs. j.. .R. Kennan from tneir
son. Edward, in France, states that ne
has been confined to a hospital LOT
two months as the result OF frac-
tured ankle, sustained by falling In
trench. The family had not heard
from him directly for two or three
months. ).
Lieut.. R. G. Strong arrived IN
this country last week from England,
where he has been with the army1
medical department for several
months. AS yet he has not been mus
tered out, nor assigned to further
duty. 1t is expected that Lieut..
Strong will return to Medina I'M
mediately upon his release from the
service.
Mrs. E. v. Burt received a letter
ON Wednesday from her son Elbridge,
in France, written on the day the
earmistice was signed, stating that ne
was well. Mr.. Burt wrote. that ne
had been in action at the front ana
participated in the real thing at the
bip>fight in Argonne forest. AT the
time he wrote he was presumably at
Dun, near Verdun, in winter quar-
ters.
George Howard, in France, writes
to his mother that he was recently
confined to a hospital by illness caused
from exposure, but is all right again.
Members of the Students Army
Training Corps of Baldwin w allace'
Berea, state they expect to be mus
tered out about Dec. 70. 1t is PROD
able that other similar bodies thru
out the country, will be dissolved soon.
w. J. Mitchell, who has been
dangerously ill for the past two
weeks from nasal hemorrhage, was
reported on Thursday as slowly i'm
proving.
The condition Of Miss Eulalia Da-
mon, who has been seriously i'll OF
pneumonia the past week is reported
as improving.
Mrs. w. o. Kindig received three
letters Wednesday from her SON
Glenn, who is in France, one OF which
was written as late as Nov. 18. He
related for the first time the clrcum.
stances under which he was injured
last July and which confined hlm &c
a hospital for several weeks. With
comrades he was carrying stretchel
from the front, when shrapnel shell
exploded, killing one of his com
rades, and shattering one OF his owl
elbows and hip. Glenn wrote that hi
expects to be sent home soon.
Tom Phillips is ill of influenza a
his home in Akron.
w. E. Hemmeter has been lait
up the past week with an attack o.
jaundice.
Earl Thatcher has been having
siege Of flu the past week.
A. w. Oatman was i'll the pas
week of influenza, but is now abl'
to be out again.
On account of the acute lntiuenz'
situation in the community, Chair
man S. HI. Brainard of the villag
committee of the Red Cross member
ship "roll call", announces there will
be no house-to-house canvass mex
week for memberships, but that Re-
Cross representatives will be station
ed in the various stores to receiv
applications, and urges that citizen
avail themselves of these opportunl
ties to join.
About fifteen cases, OF approx
mately 20 per cent of the employe
of the Henry Miller Foundry 20
have been laid up with the flu tn
past week, necessitating the closin
down of the plant last Friday an
Saturday Work was resumed Nor
day, altho several employees are sti
absent.
Julia, year-old daughter
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Popp, HUI
garians of Bronson street, died at
o'clock Wednesday night, after an il
ness of influenza. Funeral this NOR
ing at 10 o'clock from the home, COZ
Quoted by Rev. VIM. Drew, and burr
in Spring Grove cemetery.
Advertised letters at the Medll
postoffice are for Frank Bennett WI
C. Diemer, Frank Root, Mrs. F.
Woods.