The Leedey Times and Herald (Leedey, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 17, 1918 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL 15 NO 15
LEEDEY DEWEY COUNTY OKLAHOMA TH URSDAY OCTOBER 17 1918
PER YEAR 100
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Robbie Whitson Writes
I ti-ivsliton T-nn
October I l!i!
Rear 11Us in My Old Home Town
and State
Mayhp j nit folks thought yon
were ‘‘riil” of inn but not outiio-
ly I'm very much alive if I am
in Tennesso
I I ia1 a grand tiiponly through
tin catim part of Arkansas ami
there our trouble began We
my uncle aunt and an old friend
of “Dad’s" left my home at Old
Texmo on the morning of the
I'Jth day of August We were to
meet a young man at ICllc City
who wanted to come back to Ten-
nessee with us and when we got
to Elk City we could not lind him
so we sent him a long distance
call and he said he would be there
on the first train However we
had to wait from 1 p m Monday
’till 4 p in Tuesday before lie
(aineand “good night” when ho
did come he was cross eyed so
my dream faded
We left Elk City at 4:20 and
got as far as El Keno that night
There were five of us and live
suit cases but as an Olds is a lit-
tle more roomy than a Ford we
prosered nicely We stopped
at Oklahoma City and viewed tin
sights but the one that interest-
ed me most was the Capitol build-
- ing It sure is grand and I
$ could have stayed a week just
walking through it
We saw all kinds of things and
joople in Arkansas — from worm
f fences and log cabins with rock
chimneys to the nicest houses
you ever saw 1 know that Ad
am and Eye’s grandchildren
must have lived in some of them
they were at least 100 years old
We passed many acres of rice in
the Central part and I don’t think
I would like to live there for the
mosquitoes were bad enough
where it was dry in Elk City for
example and I know they must
be “fierce'' there
Another thing of interest was
the coal mines in eastern Arkan-
sas We stopped at one of them
and went all through the machin
In The First Place
the ability to save is one of the first rules in the game
of success
IN” THE SECOND PLACE— did you ever meet a suc-
cessful man who at some time did not owe his success
to his co ojieration with some bank? Our success de-
pends on your success Think It Over
4 Per Cent Paid on Time Deposits
Cotton Exchange
Irving H Wheatcroft Pres
ery part oT it We went (Ofeot
high a id I bjgan to get shaky
so I decided that was as- high as
I cared to go at that time The
boss told us we could go into the
mine which was three hundred
feet deep if we would wait unti:
they were through blasting coal
and he said it would take about
an hour but our time was “prec-
ious” so we ‘ boat it” The rain
beat us to a new pike that hadn't
been graveled so our car would
bog to the hubs We left that
and followed a river road It
took us all of on ft day to go 3a
miles (they told us it was 35 miles
but I would have believed it was
10 j if they had said so) Wo had
to push the car out of all kinds of
mud holes Two places I re
member more distinctly than
others we stayed in one “hole”
an hour and forty minutes and
in the other wc stayed three
hours There were no- fence
posts weeds nor anything else
in their places when we left they
were all in those mud holes Wo
got here and had no accidents
with the car only a broken
spring
When we got to Memphis we
were the “center of attraction”
because we were so dirty There
wasn’t a place six indies square
on the car that wasn’t spattered
with mud Maybe you will be
lieve me when 1 tell you honest-
ly that it took two hours to get
the mud otT and the folks who
cleaned it were supposed to be
“experts” as they made their
“board” that way
Must close and I don't supjtose
you are sorry of it Would be
glad to hear from any one from
home
With best wishes to all my
friends I am
Robbie Whitson
Please see that your subserp
tion is paid in advance or you
might miss an issue- Uncle
Sam says collect or stop the j a-
per at ex juration
Everybody goes to the Hotel
Taloga when In the Countyseit
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Bank Leedey Okla
C R FLINT Cashier
J W Porter Vice-Pres
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ABViOE ON FLO
U S Public Health Service Issues
Official Health Bulletin
on Influenza
LATEST WORD 0 ’A SUBJECT
Epidemic Probably Not Spanish In
Origin — Germ Still Unknown — Peo-j
pie Should Guard Against “Droplet
Infection” — Surgeon General Blue!
Makes Authoritative Statement j
Washington D C — (Special) — AI-!
though Hint Alfonso of Spain was
one of the victims of the Influenza epi-
demic In 1893 and again this summer
Spanish authorities repudiate any
ylulm to Influenza as a “Spanish” dla-i
eaae If the people of tills country do
pot take care the epidemic will be-
come so widespread throughout tlie
Vnited States that soon we shull hear
the dlscuse culled "American' Influ-
enza In response to a request for definite:
Information concerning Spanish Influ-1
enza Surgeon General Rupert Blue of:
the U S l’ubllc Health Service hns-
authorized the following official Inter-i
view :
What Is Spanish Influenza? Is It
something new? Does it come from!
Spain?
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"The disease now occurring In this:
country and called ‘Spanish Intluc-n-
za resembles a very contagious kind :
of 'cold' accompanied by fever pulus :
Coughs and Sneezes
Spread Diseases
As Dangerous as Ibinon Gaa Shells
In the head eyes cars back or other I
parts of the body and a feeling eg se-j
vere sickness In most of the cases the
symptoms disappear after three or four J
days the patient then rapidly recover-
Ing Some of the patients however'
develop pneumonia or Inflammation j
of the ear or meningitis and many of
these complicated cases die Whether!
this so-called 'Spanish' Influenza Is J
Identical with the epidemics of Influen-'
za of earlier years Is not yet known j
“Epidemics of Influenza have visited!
this country since 1047 It Is Interest-j
Ing to know that this first epidemic!
was brought here from Valencia
Spain Since that time there have
been numerous cphWmlcs of the dis-
ease In 1SS9 and 1S90 on epidemic
of Influenza starting somewhere In the
Orleut spread first to Russia and
thence over practically the entire civ-
illzcd world Three years later tbere
was another flare-up of the disease
Both times the epidemic spread wide-
ly over the United States
“Although the present epidemic Is
called 'Spanish Influenza' there Is no
reason to believe that It originated iu
Spnln Some writers who have studied
the question bcl'cvo Hint the epidemic
came from the O lent and they call at-
tention to the fu-t that the Germans
mention the dis (? as occurring along
the eastern frout in the summer and
fall of 1917“
How can “Spanish Influenza” bo rec-
ognized? “7'hcre la ns yet no certain way In
which a 6lngle ease of 'Spanish Influ-
enza can lo recognized On the oth-
er hand recognition Is easy where
there Is a group of cases In contrast
to the outbreaks of ordinary coughs
and colds which tisunlly occur In the
cold months epidemics of Influenza
may occur at any season of the year
Thus the present epidemic raged most
Intensely la Europe la May June and
Juki Mnryovf In lhe ease of ordi
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nary colds' the general symptoms
(fever pain depression) are by no
means as severe or as sudden In their'
onset ns they are In Influenza Filial-!
ly ordinary colds do not spread j
through the community so rapidly or'
so extensively us does Influenza
“In most cases a person Inken s'ck !
with Influenza feels sick rather sml-l
dcnly He feels weak has pains In the
eyes ears head or hack and may be
sore all over Many patients feel
dizzy some vomit Most of the pa-
tients complain of feeling chilly and
with this comes a fever In which the
temperature rises to 100 to 10 1 In
most cases the pulse remains relative-
ly slow
“In appearance one Is struck by the
fact that the patient looks pick Ills
eyes and the Inner side of hfs eyelids
may be slightly 'bloodshot' or 'con-
gested' as the doctors say There
may he running from the nose or I
there may be some cough These signs-
of a cold may not be mnrked never-!
thcless the patient looks and feels very!
sick I
“In addition to the appearance and
the symptoms as alrendy described
examination of the patient's blood may
aid the physician In recognizing 'Span--Ish
Influenza' Xor It Las been found
(hat In this disease the number of
white corpuscles shows little or no In-
crease above the normal It Is possi-
ble that the laboratory lnvesilgatlons
now being made through the National
Research Council and the United
States Hygienic laboratory will fur-
nish n more certain way In which IndU
vidua! cases of this disease can be
recognized”
What Is the course of the disease?
Do people die of It?
“Ordinarily the fever lasts from
three to four days and the patient re-
covers But while the proportion of
deaths In the present epidemic has
generally been low In some places the
outbreak has been severe and deaths
have been numerous When death oc-
curs It Is usually the result of a com-
plication” What causes the disease and how Is
It spread?
“Eaeterlologlsts who have studied In-
fluenza epidemics In the past have
found In many of the cases a very
Small rod shsiel germ called after Itsj
discoverer Pfeiffer's bacillus In other!
cases of apparently the same kind of(
disease there were found pneumococci!
the germs of lobar pneumonia Still (
others have been caused by strepto-i
coeel and- by others germs with long
names I
“No matter what particular kind ofl
germ causes the epidemic It Is nowj
believed that Influenza Is always
spread from person to person the!
germs lelng carried with the air along-
with the very small droplets of mucus’
exjelled by coughing or sneezing
forceful talking and the like by one
vh already Jins lhe germs of lhe jlis
(Continued to page eight)
We Want Your
Account
We want your account because we
want to do business with all our peojde be-
lieving that we offer every facility for prompt
and projier business There must be a be-
ginning— do not postpone the opening of an
account simply because of tho smallness of
your first deposits Your account however
small will receive the same prompt and court-
eous consideration we extend to our many
large dejxsitors
The First
Leedey
DEPOSITS
C A LaRue President
RT- Sumrall Vice-Pres
Roy Walton Writes
August 27 l'Jlr
Dear Sistei :
Two of your lot tor reached
me today on- from Fresno and
the other nft-r vim go bu-i t
Crockett Co I mji answering
both at once
In both of your letters you
want me to U-ll yrfu all that I
see well that is not very much
for I stay at the same place most
of the time and am not allowed to
tell very much
My work is about two blocks
from the barracks and for a week
at a time I am not farther away
Usually on Sunday I get a pass
but that does not give me a very
wide range
I’ll tell you a few things about
the customs of tho country The
people travel mostly on the street
cars a few have automobiles but
street car service is good and
the price ten’centimes (2 cents)
They have women conductors
and sometimes women motor-
men Their cars are not as good
looking as ours but the engine
sounds pretty and I a in told they
are excellent but give me a Cad-
illac and they can keep anything
I’ve seen yet Some of them are
smaller than Fords and they go
by buzzing Another way to
travel is on foot and that’s the
way we usually travel the lnt
week before pay day however I
have several francs left this time
Some go in buggies but not like
ours they have a seat in front
for the driver and the one in back
is not over a foot above the street
Riding as a pastime is too ex-
pensive a pleasure or the French
do not care for it or something
Their favorite pastime seems to
be to sit on the sidewalk in front
of the wine shops and sip liqoor
and gossip They are great to
smoke every one smoking and
lots of the women and kids about
7 and beg for cigaretts
There are lots of pretty gitl-t
here but not as many as in the
states they use too much powd-
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Bradshaw, A. C. The Leedey Times and Herald (Leedey, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 17, 1918, newspaper, October 17, 1918; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1934451/m1/1/: accessed May 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.