Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-02-26
FLU EPIDEMIC Is. SERIOUS.


the disease in Shepherdstown and
vicinity. The illness is not so fatal
as II was last year. and there have
been very few fatalities in this coun-
~, but IL seems TO be even more con-
tagious. Where one in family gets the
disease II seems almost sure 10 affect
all the others, and this has caused
great distress in number of house
holds.
Those Of our community who have
kept in health have been acting as
good Samaritans in caring for the sick,
and the Red Cross has been especial
ly active in providing nurses, preparing
food, broths, iellies, etc, and in min
istering to those who are i'll. The
good men and women OF our town
have been doing noble work in this
time OF trouble. Three trained
nurses have been brought in from
other places. OF these, Mrs. Jane
Andrews, OF Charles Town, is serving
as district nurse. There is no lack
of food and money, but more nurses of
experience could we'll be utilized.
! The family of Mrs. Mamie Grove
is seriously afflicted. Mrs. Grove is
helpless from broken hip. and her
three daughters, Miss Nellie, Miss
Louise and Miss Grace, are all down
with the influenza. Besides. three of
their boarders, students at Shepherd
| College, have been seriously i'll this
week from pneumonia Ray and Curtis
/ Powers, Of Hampshire county, and
Allen wilkins, of Hardy county, this
State. Relatives and neighbors have
been ministering to them, and a train
cd nurse, Miss Miller, of Kecdysville.
is caring for them II is not often
that home in our community has
been the scene of so much sickness.
The families of Ferd Snyder and
iohn Snyder and Frank Miller, Of the
Ridge road section, have all been sick
this past week. Few families, how
ever, have been as seriously afflicted
as that of John N. Shacklcford. of that
neigheorhood. Father, mother and
nine children we're all sick at one
time, and il has been very hard to get
anyone to look after them. Walter
Knott, neighbor, has been feeding
Mr.. Shackleford's live stock for him
c. !. Knott has also been sick this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy T. Morrison and
their daughter, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Bowman VanMetre and their son, who
live two or three miles from town, along
the kearneysville pike, have all
been down with the disease the past
week.
All OF the members Of the family OF
lohn Allen Link, near Moler's, have
been down with the influenza except
Mr. Link himself. His son Charles
was extremely i'll with pneumonia this
=, week, and his life has been almost
despaired OF.
Paul Morrow. OF the Shepherd Col
lege faculty, and Mrs. Morrow and
their three children we're all sick this
week and were very bad OF until Mon
day, when a nurse was finally secured
for them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank T. Carter and
their adopted son and daughter wer1
all sick this week. Mr.. Carter waa
Obliged to close his store, as no one
could be gotten to manage it for him
He has had the pneumonia. Mr.. and
Mrs. T. A. Carter have both been down
with the flu also.
Mrs. G. w. Ferrell has been very
sick this week with an attack Of pneu-
monia, following the influenza. Her
sor o'chard Ferrell is also sick with
the flu.
Mrs. II. Oscar Osbourn has been
quite sick with the flu, and is in the
hospital in Charles Town for treat
ment.
Oscar Sperow, a well-known farmer
west OF Shepherdstown, was among
the victims Of the prevailing flu the
past week
Mrs. r L. Price and Miss May Price
have been sick with the flu but are
now on the mend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Stanley and
their daughter are all sick with the
influenza at their home south OF town.
Butler Jones and four of his chill
dren, living north Of town, have been
sick This week with the influenza.
William Griffith and his six chill
dren, living just west OF town, have all
been sick with the influenza this
week. and this morning Mrs. Griffith
mas also developed the disease. Cleve-
land Griffith and three of his children
arc also down.
Mrs. Walter w. Winters and Mrs.
w. A. Stephens and her son Billy were
taken sick with the flu Tuesday night.
There were several cases of the
flu among the girls in the Shepherd
College dormitory last week, but these
d. seem to be we'll again. Miss Jessie
down with the disease. Miss More
land has also been right sick the past
couple of days.
Edgar Osbourn has been a victim of
the prevailing influenza. but is now
able TO be up and about.
Virginia and Elizabeth Bilmyer.
children of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Bill
myer, are among the victims Of the
flu.
The family OF Richard Cash. the
rallroad watchman.. are all ill-he and
his wife, his mother-in-law and his
five children being belfast at the
same time.
Mrs. Charles M. Sheetz and her two
children, Charles and Luella, have