Show INFLUENZA AND PNEUMONIA TAKE TAIE ALARMING TOLL Eight Citizens Dramatically Taken From Our Ouri i Midst in the Past Nine Days Influenza in Delta as as as in other parts of the country has continued continued continued con con- to take tal its ts toll of at victims the past week at an alarming rate Since last weeks week's issue le six deaths have in Delta and vicinity Most lost of those who have ha fallen victim victim victim vic vic- tim to the tho disease have ha been big hearty men with the best part of life still ahead of them They have been men who would least expect to be betaken betaken taken by disease of this kind Those who have just passed away from among us represented some of our best and most trustworthy citizens citizens citizens cit cit- cit cit- and we ve ve all mourn their loss as brothers' brothers and deeply sympathize with those who have been deprived of their help and comfort in their homes and daily work Ou Our hearts as a community feel Jn to particular the great sorrow and gloom that has been cast over the little ones and their mothers In being deprived ed of oC the guidance and care of the strong hands which h have ve heretofore watched watch ed over theta the Let us be bo more kind and helpful to these In the future that we may In turn impart to them at at least some degree of the help end and comfort they havo have been deprived of or orand I and that we still enjoy There being no gatherings nor Intercourse intercourse intercourse In in- one one with another except just what is necessary we have not been able to go fully into detail teach t f teach each death I GEORGE E. E BILLINGS who had been very sick at his home when the the hospital was established was moved there the tho last of the week and dl died d of influenza n q Saturday mor morning morning morn morn- ing at three Tuesday aC at twelve o'clock after being reviewed by relatives the body was laid awa away in the tho Delta cemetery with appropriate ate ato services and the tho loving care of friends He leaves a wife who is how very low with the same disease and four little girls His father three brothers and two two sisters als survive him At the time of his death George was Just turning thir thir- ty-one ty years of or age He was a man who always worked for what he to be the good of the community Ho He will be bo greatly missed by the community community community com com- as well as by his more moro Intimate intimate intimate Inti inti- mate friends and his family DICK SMITH S died In the hospital after having been heen moved there the last of last week in a serious condition His us death o oc oc- oc cured Sunday at j 30 J p. p m. m The funeral today at 2 p. p m. m Left to mourn his loss is his young wife and three small children besides his father j even even sisters an and one I brother Ills IIi age at the time of hs h's 0 death was twenty one years lIe He was the tho son of Dick Smith Sr who lives on the South Tract and a broth- broth law erin of I 1 Maurice urice and Joe Briggs and was engaged in the threshing business at the tho time of his death M MAURICE IA BRIGGS died at his home south of Delta of influenza Tuesday at 1030 Ho was twenty seven years of ago age and he leaves a wife and three small children children children child child- ren to mourn his loss He was engaged engaged engaged en en- In threshing with his brother- brother law in-law Dick Smith ins His father and mother and brother Joe and wife of Salt Lake Lalee came down when notified notified notified no no- of or his condition A double funeral occurred today when he and his law in Dick Smith were buried at 2 00 P p. p m. m by sorrowing friends and relatives with appropriate ate services CHARLES PHILBRICK Charles PhilbrIck of Wymore Neb electrical engineer at the sugar sugar sugar sug sug- ar ar factory contracted influenza at atthe atthe at atthe the factory and was moved to the hospital the last of last week while In iii hi a very serious condition He died at two on the morning of oC Monda Monday H He was three thirty-three years of age His law in arrived ed from the east easta a few hours before his passing away end his sister Miss Christie Philbrick arrived that Mr was wasa wasa a a Mason and carried some insurance His Ills sister lister ister left on Wednesday night with the remains for Nebraska I ka STIR STEWART STEWART- ARP z zErbin Erbin Stewart Stewart was an employee at atthe atthe atthe the factory and was twenty years of or orage age and was moved mo to the hospital in a D. precarious condition and died lied Wednesday night at 5 00 H He Iwas was alone In tho the vicinity his hla molher mothe mother living In St. St George She was communicated with and gave Instructions that the boy be temporarily buried burled In the Delta u JA JAMES IES A. A S SMITH James A. A Smith of Delta who had been in the hospital and returned to his home in the east part of town died Wednesday night at midnight of influenza Influenza- and asthmatic com com- comI I He was past middle age age and leaves a wife wIro and nine child child- ren His funeral will wm take taIce place as soon as the casket can be obtained LUTHER XI Word Vord reaches us just as we go to press that Luther Buchanan has passed passed passed pas pas- sed away leaving lea a wife and several children |