Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1920-02-05

Five deaths from Spanish influenza
in Grangeville or vicinity in five sue
cessive days is the toll of the disease
locally during the last week.
The contagion late last week spread
with alarming rapidly over the city
and adjoining farming districts. 1t
Spread to Cottonwood and to White
bird, where one death, that of John
Haydorn was reported.
The epidemic has reached its crest
in Grangeville, according to physicians
who have been busy day and night
answering hundreds of calls. Fewer
new cases were reprted in the city
during the last few days, and many
Families have been released from quar-
antine. In the country districts, how
ever, the disease is spreading, physi-
Dcians declare 1t was much later in
breaking out in the rural communities
Than in town.
Scarcity of nurses to care for influ
enza patients has resulted i'll difficulty
being experienced in many families,
where several members were i'll with
The malady. Persons who were cOnva-
descent have been obliged to leave
their beds in order to care for other
members of the family who were i'll,
and thereby have suffered relapses
# DR.. B. Chapman, city health officer
+ Who was attending a large number of
3 patients, has been i'll for several
days, and his work has been taken
over by other physicians of the city |
who already were busy almost twenty |
-four hours in the day.
MRS ADDIE ALICE NAIL
81 The first victim Of the present in
dluenza epidemic in Grangeville was
Mrs Addie Alice Nail, wife of Roy b.
Nail Mrs. Nail died Saturday morn |
ipg in her home, after an illness OF |
but a few days.
Mrs. Nail, nee Mitchell, was born at !
NIerose, Mont, on May 10, 1887. In |
1908 with her parents, she removed to
farm near Sites, and three years
later, on July ,, 1906, she was married !
to Roy E. Nail, at Sites. One son
was born to them. For five years the |
Family resided in Grangeville.
Mrs Nail a number of years ago
united with the Presbyterian church at
Sites, and died in the assurance of
the Christian faith.
Surviving her are her husband Roy
j.. Nail, one son, Cornelius, II years
old, her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Mitchell, and a sister, Mrs. Will Huff.
Funeral was held Monday morning
from the Maugg parlors, with brief
services at the grave in Prairie View
cemetery, the Rev. II. S. Randall Of
ficiating.
MRS. ETHEL MANNING
Influenza claimed another victim at
4: 10 Sunday morning when Mrs. Ethel
Manning, wife of George w. Manning,
died in her home in this city, after an
illness of ten days duration. She was
pa years old.
Mrs. Manning was born Nov. %,
lSS2, near Southwest City, Mcdonald
County, Mo. She grew to womanhood
IN Missouri, and was married there, on
Sept. 10, 1908, to George w. Manning
Whey had been schoolmates during
their entire school years. Immediately
after their marriage, Mr.. and Mrs
Manning removed to Grangeville, and
pad since resided here.
& To them were born three daughters,
Pauline, aged Is; Zelma, s, and Verna,
a all of whom with the husband sur
Five her.
Mrs. Manning had been a member
of the Church of Christ from girlhood.
She was always persistent and tire
less worker, and was, at the time OF
her death, superintendent of the era
Ole roll and teacher of the ladies BIZ ;
pie class of the Christian Sunday
school of this city.
\ The funeral was held Tuesday morn