Goldsboro Gets Booze
Shipment
Goldsboro, N.C., Feb. 20—Miss Virginia Sheftall of Savannah,
Ga., said to be prominently connected in that city, is critically ill at a
local hotel where Wednesday night she was stricken with influenza shortly after
registering at the hotel. Pneumonia developed yesterday and today little hope
is entertained for her recovery. The young woman’s mother arrived here last
night from Savannah.
Five barrels of government bonded whiskey consigned to a
local hospital arrived here yesterday under guard of two government agents from
Baltimore, where it is said the fluid used to blink and bubble behind the bars
was purchased. When the stuff arrived here it was unloaded by the agents and
quite a crowd witnessed its removal to the hospital.
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Raleigh Raises Ban on
Influenza
Raleigh’s quarantine against influenza which has been in
operation since February 7 at 6 p.m., will be lifted at midnight Saturday,
allowing churches to hold their regular services Sunday and all business to
resume its normal course Monday.
This is the result of action of the city commissioners in
their meeting yesterday afternoon when the closing ordinance was repealed. The action
was upon the advice of health authorities Dr. W.S. Rankin, State Health
Officer, and Dr. Percy Ahrons, county health officer, concurring. The commissioners
repealed the ordinance effective Saturday night feeling that their original
action, placing a ban on all public gatherings and closing the schools, had a
wholesome effect in checking the spread of influenza.
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Fifth District
Physicians Meet
Red Springs, Feb. 20—The mid winter meeting of the fifth
district North Carolina Medical Association was held here today in the
auditorium of Flora Macdonald College. Dr. Vardell welcomed the visiting
physicians and offered brief opening prayer. The address of the day was
delivered by Dr. Francis E. Stewart, director of the scientific department of
the H.K. Mulford Company, Philadelphia, his subject being “The Use of Vaccines
and Serums for the Prevention and Treatment of Influenza and the Pneumonias.”
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Much Interest
Manifested Here By F.D. Gold, Editor
Many inquiries come to the editor of the Times as to when the ban will be removed
on account of the prevalence of influenza and the churches, moving picture
shows and the schools will be allowed to open again. The decision to remove
restrictions in Raleigh has quite naturally accentuated the inquiries with
reference to Wilson.
While the “flu” situation in the city of Wilson has
improved, yet there is a great deal in the country, and the disease is not
entirely over here. There are a few new cases of influenza and some pneumonia,
and a number of people in the city are lying close to death’s door.
The illness of Dr. Smith and Mayor Hill precludes any action
this week, for they are a large part of the health board, and are weighty
officials in the affairs of the community.
A few more days will determine whether the disease is really
dying out or is merely waiting on more material. In this connection we desire
to commend the conduct of our people in submitting gracefully to the powers
that be, and in this way doing all in their power to alleviate the suffering
and eliminate the disease
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