Submitted by: Todd Nowicki

Nowicka, Huffman, Sears, Rogers, Towne, DeVose

South Bend Tribune 6/5/1912  

ANITA NOWICKA SIXTH VICTIM OF SMALLPOX  

 Girl dies in isolation hospital after short illness.    Smallpox caused the sixth death in South Bend since its introduction here
 four months ago when Anita Nowicka, aged 16, of 1337 West Fisher street
 died early today in the isolation hospital. Miss Nowicka was taken to the
 institution on May 25. She grew gradually worse and last Friday it was
 thought she could not live more than a few hours. Her case was regarded
 as the worst which has ever been treated at the institution.    Authorities are puzzled as to the manner in which Miss Nowicka con-
 tracted the disease. She was taken suddenly ill and attending physicians
 pronounced the case smallpox. She was at once removed to the hospital.    Miss Nowicka was born in South Bend on May 1, 1896, and had resided
 here all her life. She is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael
 Nowicka. Short funeral services will be held this evening, and tonight
 burial will take place in St. Joseph’s Polish cemetery.    The first death due to smallpox was that of Mrs. Theodore Huffman, wife
 of the custodian of the isolation hospital. Since that time, Mrs. Joseph
 Sears, her brother-in-law, Racy Rogers, Homer Towne and his son, Ross
 Towne, have succumbed to the disease. The first case was brought here
 by the son of Peter DeVose, of Mishawaka, a Belgium immigrant.