Mabel Items
Mr. John F. Oliver has just recently closed (opened?) a
singing school at Union church. Mr. Oliver is a very competent man in the
place.
Mr. W.M. Thomas, who has been seriously ill, is again
permitted to be up and going.
Messrs. Chas. H. and Lloyd S. Isaacs left recently for
Elizabethton, Tenn., where the latter has accepted a position in the office
with the Pittsburg Lumber Company.
Miss Fae Greer is visiting relatives and friends in Boone.
Another new grocery store in the village, Mr. C.C. Greer
being the financier.
Training School Items
Watauga is in the grip of a pretty severe snow storm since
Saturday the 14th. It is clear today and colder, the thermometer
standing at from 2 to 4 above zero, with the wind blowing a gale.
The influenza situation has caused some anxiety in Boone and
compelled the town authorities to quarantine the Training School, stop all
crowds from assembling, and discontinue all picture shows and Sunday School and
Church services till the conditions improve.
Miss McCartney, a trained nurse from the State Health
Department, was at chapel exercises of the Training School on Wednesday and
make a most sensible talk on keeping healthy in general and on the immediate
conditions of the influenza situation. She is still with the School looking
after the influenza patients and training some of the young men and young
ladies to care for the sick ones. The school is indeed fortunate in having her,
for she is looking after conditions so well that no new cases have developed in
a number of days. All cases are reported as improved, thus greatly relieving
the anxiety of the friends and patrons of the School, and it is now hoped that
no further spread of the disease may take place.
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