Volume 11 , Issue 10

1935 - Alva Open Again

This 1935 news article appeared in The Oklahoman, dated Jan. 20, 1935, page 49, with headlines that read: "Alva To Open Again Monday" - "Epidemic Ends, Clubs and Churches to Resume."

Alva, Jan. 19, 1935 -- Special -- "The procession of seven-days-a-week blue Sundays, which has stifled this ordinarily progressive city since the scarlet fever epidemic closed the town three weeks ago, will end Monday, and the city will enjoy freedom again.
"They have been rolling up the streets at 8 o'clock each night since Dr. G. N. Bilby, state health commissioner, ordered the quarantine, which prohibited churches, moving picture houses, pool halls and schools from operating. It was worse than Sunday for the ordinary Alva citizen for it has been his wont to visit a moving picture house on Sunday if he did not feel the need for the parson's weekly exhortation.

"He could not go to a luncheon club or any other kind of club. His wife was as bad off. SHe could not club around either. Even the public library, the last resort of the average bored mortal, was closed.

"The scarlet fever, while of epidemic proportions, was of the milder sort. There have been but a few serious cases since the onset."
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