Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-20 | Page 17 | Malady Keeps Nurse from Overseas Work

MISS HAZEL SKOUSON, trained nurse of Salt Lake, who is aiding in overcoming the influenza epidemic at Camp Merritt. lADY KEEPS NURSE M OVERSEAS WORK Salt Lake Girl Assigned to Aid in Caring for Men at Camp Merritt. Ordered to prepare for service overseas. Miss Hazel Skouson of Salt Lake, a ; trained nurse, is at Camp Merritt, N. V., I where she is aiding in nursing men who I h;te become victims of the Spanish influenza. in-fluenza. Miss Skouson is a registered : nurse of the army nursing corps and a graduate and supervisor of the L. D. S. I hospital. She was sent to Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich., for training, and j was then ordered to prepare for overseas over-seas duty. She is the daughter of Mrs. I A. R, Skouson of Pocatello, Idaho. In a letter to her sister In this city several days ago Miss Skouson referred to the necessity for greater sacrifice on the part of the American people for the N boys who already have or who are in training for overseas service. In part ( she wrote: T really doesn't have time to think jyFr!ay times In the army. If only people ;fcould see and realize the spirit manifest-J! manifest-J! ed by our boys, money would not be f spared in trying to make them happy and fc give them more things than they do. Of n course, the Red Cross and all organiza-1? organiza-1? tlons are doing a wonderful work and I we all must do what we think we couldn't do. We simply must give up the selfish a 1da of dress and eating and living for M ourselves only. When one sees the boys djing off here for their country's sake they even say how they would rather die fighting than here tears simply can't stay back. And then there are .some in civilian life who think they can't even buy a bond !"