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Subject: [ARCLAY-L] "From Our Files.........1898" Clay County Courier
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 16:49:30 +0000

Taken from recently republished articles from the Clay
County Courier, Corning, Arkansas.......1891.

1898

"There is no one thing Corning needs more than a board
of health, composed of three or more physicians, whose
duty it should be to thoroughly and at once investigate
any rumor of any contagious disease and give the public
the benefit of their knowledge. I would suggest that the
city dads appoit such a board at once. I have presented
the matter to several of our physicians and they hertily
acquiesced. The recent scarlet fever scare clearly
demonstrates to my mind the necessity of such a board.
As the incubation period of scarlet fever is from one to
six days and so very malignant as to be transmitted a
thousand miles by mail is conclusive proof that none has
existed in our vicinity. An active board would relieve
us of much needless anxiety in the future."
Dr. A.R. SIMPSON

Mr.and Mrs. Joseph WATSON have returned from Boydsville
and begun housekeeping in the Gleghorn settlement.

Grant BEETEN and wife have removed from the timber camps
near the Woolfolk Ferry and are occupying the FLEMMING's
farm. (White School)

Will MIZELL of Current View spent Sunday with friends
here.

Bud WHITEHEAD of Palatka was mingling among friends here
Sunday.

Mr. STRONG returned a few days ago from Poyner, Missouri
where he had been for some time engaged in sowing a
large crop of wheat. (Success)

to be continued..................

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