Show VERNAL CELEBRATION shows a great turn out of This picture is possibly of the Armistice Day in At that a flu epidemic was prevalent in the Basin and residents had been told to stay at Due many people contracted the flu and many lives were In recent weeks at the schools here in Ashley Valley there was an outbreak of flu that reached almost epidemic Let's travel back to another flu experience that was far Quite a time ago in 1917 and 1918 there was a Great War that was going to end war forever and make the world safe for This was the first time Uintah County boys were called out in large numbers and several hundred of them wound up wearing the uniform of the United Everyone on the home front did all they they joined the Red they purchased Liberty Bonds and did without a lot of things so the men in uniform could figHt the After supporting the war effort and putting up with certain sacrifices for 18 the people of Ashley Valley had another burden to bear Lie raging flu or influenza Public meetings were forbidden and when a person went out in he was supposed to wear a flu The streets were On November the word rang out across the country that the Armistice was In everyone broke loose in a frenzied they had been cooped up so Hundreds of people flocked to the center of disregarding the flu bans and marched up and down Main A group of men confiscated a dummy of Kaiser Wilhelm from the lobby of the theater and ran it up the flagpole in the center of Next they went to Ashton's hardware store and borrowed every shotgun In Everyone grabbed their gun and took a shot at the Kaiser and when he came down from the he was riddled to A bonfire was a band procured and the people stayed far into the night celebrating the end of the An ironic note clouded the joys of the following Several people took sick from contact with other people in the mass demonstration and within two more people of Ashley Valley died from the flu than local boys were killed fighting the Germans in The next meeting of the Uintah County Historical Society will be held January at 2 p.m. at the Golden Age The topic for discussion will be the trips of John Wesley Powell down the Green and through Uintah The public is invited to |