Glimpses of the Past

August 11, 1881

            Much sickness is reported.

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September 9, 1886

            Much sickness prevails about the village.

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December 3, 1891

            There is considerable sickness around town, and Drs. Parker and Harvey are kept busy dispensing drugs to the afflicted.

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December 17, 1896

            Considerable sickness is prevalent hereabouts.

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January 24, 1901

            The grippe is affecting our citizens right and left. Frank Bunn is among the recently afflicted. He has not reported for duty since Tuesday.

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May 11, 1905

            The quarantine at Theodore Johnson’s has been lifted. There are no more cases of scarlet fever in town, and the mumps epidemic has about run its course.

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December 18, 1909

            O.C. Hanson of Pigeon was in town Saturday for the first time in several weeks, his home having been quarantined for diphtheria.

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October 1, 1914

            Pigeon Falls — Typhoid fever is raging in this neighborhood. A newcomer on Solbergs’ place had died of the disease, leaving a wife and three small children.

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January 13, 1919

            The village school reopened Monday morning, after a long quarantine, with a good enrollment. The board of health thought it best to hold the ban on dances and entertainments at the hall for a time, at least.

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March 6, 1924

            The epidemic of measles, which made its appearance at Whitehall early in the winter and then nearly passed over, has claimed many new victims the past two weeks. In the neighborhood of 30 homes in the village are placarded.

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