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Show Faun Bartholomew is the Victim of Spinal Meningitis After hoping and praying for weeks that little Faun Bartholomew, beautiful beau-tiful daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Bartholomew of Ephraim, might recover re-cover from the dreaded spinal meningitis. menin-gitis. Citizens were shocked Thursday Thurs-day evening when the news of the girls death spread over the town. Faun contracted the terrible disease on December 18th and for six weeks and two days she suffered pain of a severity that defies the imagination. The beautiful little body was wasted away to a mere sharow of its former self, yet hope for recovery was not dispaired of until the last breath had been drawn. During her critical illness Faun passed her 14th birthday, she having been born January 17, 1915 at Fayette. While Faun finally gained relief from the terrible disease through death, her sister, Mrs. Lila Keller, is lying in an unconscious state, wracked ' with excruciating pain from the same dread disease with which she has suffered since January 3rd. The pass-i pass-i ing of little Faun has dimmed the hopes for the recovery of Lila, yet the entire town continues to hope and pray that the disease may be conquered. con-quered. In the meantime the sympathy sym-pathy and love of the town have seldom sel-dom been turned so completely toward . anyone as it has toward the stricken 1 Bartholomew family. At the home ; beside Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew and Lila are Mr. and Mrs. Max Pace and a trained nurse. The nature of the disease di-sease makes it impossible for the citizens citi-zens to go to the home and render aid as they would like to do. Faun was a beautiful girl of almost angelic qualities, always smiling, always al-ways cheerful, a model student, loved 1 by everyone. She was in the eighth : grade and would have graduated with ; honors in the spring. Her classmates have continually prayed and hoped : for her recovery. An open-air funeral was held at the Ephraim Cemetery Saturday afternoon. Ephraim Enterprise. |