Spanish Influenza, Oct. 19, 1918

Sheridan Media reporter Pat Blair looks back in time, over 100 years ago, to the impact of Spanish influenza as reported in the pages of the Sheridan Enterprise in 1918.

Yesterday’s rain has been declared to have been beneficial in clearing the atmosphere in Sheridan at a time when it was most needed to help check the influenza epidemic.

Manager Goforth of the Scales Motor company is ill at his home with influenza.

There has been some complaint over the failure to close saloons during the epidemic. Since churches, schools, theaters and pool halls have been closed, some residents say it certainly wouldn’t be out of keeping to extend the order to saloons.

The Red Cross emergency hospital on Grinnell avenue was opened yesterday, with two trained nurses in charge. A number of women in Sheridan have volunteered their services as emergency nurses.