Arizona republican., 1919-01-11
PUBLIC GATHERINGS
 TABOOED IN HAYDEN

HAYDEN, Jan. S.-The health au- thorities have announced that public gatherings shall not be held for some little time, or until the increasing num- Der of influenza cases shall have sub sided. It is feared that a severe epi- demic might follow unless these pre- cautionary measures were taken.
 The grade school has been closed, ! leaving only the high school classes to meet. Also the theater has closed un- til such orders shall be rescinded. MT. and Mrs. c. F. Laird are i'll of the influenza at their home. N. $. Nye occupied the pulpit of the Methodist church on the two recent Sundays when the pastor was confined to his home on account of the influ- enZa
 Miss Mildred Masterson is i'll with the | influenza at Tempe, where she is at tending the normal school. l Rev. J. +. Jenkins, of Phoenix, was in Hayden Monday visiting among the members of the Episcopal church. Robert Conner has been quite i'll at 1 his home on Third street, suffering from an abceSs. He is somewhat inn 1 proved according to reports,
 The coal crushing plant at the shelter has been closed for some days awaiting the arrival of an expert from ! the east who was expected to make some establishments following a slight accident recently.
 Donda, the little daughter of D. B. Goodridse is suffering from an attack of scarlet fever at her home on Shelter side.
 w. F. Saintsburry, who has been em- ployed by the A. s. and R. for num- Der of years, has recently been trans ferred to Fl Paso.
 L. R. Metcalf is somewhat improved following his recent illness of pneu- monia. His family were all i'll at the same time of the influenza
 Frank r. Jones, formerly of Hayden, where he was employed by the smelter and later by the Hayden Drug com pany, writes from overseas where he is now serving with the 353rd infantry
 When he left last April he was as- signed to this regiment, company IT
 but was later assigned to headquarters , company, and is now a musician. His
 Christmas victory letter follows:
 France, Nov. g, 1918.
 Dear Father:
 This is the day We are all to mai
 our Dads Christmas Victory Letter.
 The censorship, so we are informed
 today, has been made less stringent SC
 1 can tell you folks there about where we have been where we are now. We were in the St Mihiel drive. Int 353rd regiment went over the top a
 5:20 o'clock after a terrific fiYe-houl : bombardment. Our regiment took sev- eral towns, over 1,500 prisoners, grea
 quantities of supplies, and advanced
 about eight miles. At one town q Ger. ! plies, was about to pull out of the sta tion when two big shells from our ar
 tillery blew up the tracks on both side of the train, and it could not get out
 The infantry found hundreds of pound
 of honey, bread, butter and severa
 other articles Of food, also four hundre, kegs of beer, great stores of clothin;
 and supplies.
 We moved from the St. Mihiel secto ! to the Meuse-Argonne sector, which i north or northeast of Verdun. Tn , 353rd went over the top on this secto , Nov. l at about 6:00 o'clock, after on
 of the most destructive barrages on tn , l western front Our artillery was com . posed of the best in the army and con . l tained thousands upon thousands 0 Q guns of all calibre. Woods were sho
 to pieces. whole forests I should sa,
 and the open fields looked like they ha f been plowed for sowing grain. We ad : | Vanced about p kilometers a We are now in Stenay, on the Meus n river, between Verdun and Sedan. W
 have been here since Novembr r, hay e ing capturd the place the morning tn Il armistice was declared. We are leav r ing in a day or two so it is rumored fo = Germany. The S9th division being on
 of the divisions selected for the honor Il Will close for this time Hope a S there are well. This leaves us all i Il good health and feeling fine.
 Best wishes.
 . Musician Frank r. Jones. n 353rd Inf. H. c. Co,