Spanish Influenza, Nov. 22, 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.

A special meeting of the city council announced for yesterday did not occur, and Sheridan Mayor M. B. Camplin said this morning, Nov. 22, that unless there’s a change for the worse, the ban on closures will be lifted as originally planned.

The mayor said he kept in touch with the county health officer’s office yesterday and at 9 o’clock last night was advised that only five new cases of influenza had been reported, and three of those were in families where the malady previously had lodgement.

Mrs. W. C. Jackson, one of the faithful volunteer nurses here, left on No. 41 yesterday for Parkman, where she will resume her duties as teacher in the Wallace school.