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Show A CONTRIBUTION APPRECIATED The following contribution handed us, we gladly give space. It is a recognition of a most worthy act. When the Spanish Influenza was raging and at its height that most dreaded of all diseases with which our community has ever been stricken. strick-en. When the palor of death stalk-in stalk-in many a home; when the sick were frequent arrivals to the city, and many feared to venture from their homes; then an improvised emergency emergen-cy hospital was arranged where the sick could be taken on arrival and the wholesale exposure of their families fami-lies and friends prevented. But no trained nurses were at hand, and a call for volunteers was made to enter this plague ridden house. Who were the ones to respond to take up this dreaded task and nurse these stricken strick-en ones? Two young gtrls from the East, the Misses Helen Campbell and Grace Sample, teachers from tha Wasatch Academy, came forward and volunteered to take the risk, each one on every other shift. They nursed three young men back to health again and thereby prevented the exposure ex-posure of their families. This was done with the true spirit of self-sacrifice for which these boys and parents and the community at large should ever feel grateful, an example that others might profit by following. They will receive the homage and gratitude of many. The one has contracted con-tracted the -disease, but it is hoped that she will speedily recover. Many will run the risk under the blair of the trumpet and blaze of excitement when the plaudits from the crowd swell the air, but comparatively com-paratively few there are to enter the place of obscurity unattended and alone "to wrestle with a life ami death struggle with but an even chance to ever return," and far from kindred and home. That is the true heroine. |