The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, January 11, 1906 ENGLISH TOWNSHIP NEWS: CHESTER, son of J.T. MILLER, is very low with lung fever. MR. and MRS. CHARLES MCDOWELL moved this week to Chariton. ETHEL CAIN is attending school at Indianola. MRS. FANNY MCDOWELL received the sad news this week that her son WILL, in Canada, was very sick with typhoid fever. FLOSSIE CARSON visited over Sunday at home. JERRY MILLER is quite sick. LYLE AVITT is on the sick list. Master MAURICE CARSON is visiting this week at his uncle NEWT CARSON on account of his father's illness. MRS. SARAH CARN visited last at Indianola with her aunt MRS. SARAH GORDON. Last Monday the people in this community were shocked to see the home of MRS. CHAMBERLAIN and children, burning. She was alone with five small children as her husband works in the mines at Hiteman. She is at present at the home of DAVE BAUGHMAN; nothing was saved. Tuesday, quite a little donation in clothes and money were given. HARRY CARSON had the misfortune to fall last Wednesday morning from his hay loft to the basement floor, a distance of about twenty feet, breaking four ribs and otherwise hurting him quite badly. He is getting along nicely so far, all hope for his speedy recovery. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert September 23, 2004 [email protected]