This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hirz, Prohaska, Egenberger, Thomas, Stohlman, Droege Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/48.1.2.2.3 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, May 14, 1917 MRS. HENRY HIRZ VERY ILL. >From Saturday’s Daily. Mrs. Henry HIRZ, sr., who has been very poorly for the past winter was taken quite sick yesterday at her home west of the city, and her condition is reported as being very serious and causes a great deal of apprehension to her family and friends. Mrs. Hirz’s many friends throughout the county will regret to learn of her serious condition and hope that she may recover from the illness without serious results. Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, September 6, 1917 MISS HIRZ RETURNS FROM WEST. Miss Lena HIRZ returns after a two months stay in Utah, and is accompanied by Miss Marie PROHASKA, who came out and spent two weeks with her. They are both employees of the H.M. SOENNISCHSEN [sic] Daylight store. Miss Hirz, first went to Salt Lake City where her mother and sister, Mrs. J.V. EGENBERGER, Jr., lives and where he is engaged in the bakery business. Here Miss Hirz visited all the wonderful places such as the Mormon temple, and was greatly impressed with the musicales which they gave. She took many a dip in Salt Lake, and tells of it being impossible to drown therein. The water is so thoroughly saturated with salt that one is buoyed up so it is not possible to get under the water. The place where they go in bathing is from three to six feet deep, but in some places it is over a hundred feet in depth. She visited in Magna, which is eighteen miles from Salt Lake City, and there they met Cecil THOMAS, whose wife, formerly Miss Minnie STOHLMAN, is a cousin of Miss Hirz. Here they also met, Gale CONNOR and wife. Mrs. Connor, formerly being Miss Lena DROEGE, Carl and Emil DROEGE also lived there, and there Miss Hirz had a fine time. She also visited at Garfield, but there knew no one, but went to see the gigantic smelters which are located there. For the last two weeks, Miss Marie PROHASKA, was with her and the two had a fine time seeing the country and sights together. They arrived home early Saturday morning.