Flu Lid Is Off; Churches Open

Churches will peal forth again today for the first time in 5 Sundays• Theater goers will also take up their routine interrupted October 6 when restrictions first went into effect• Saloons and soda fountains will be held in all churches of the city today and preparations are being made to prevent overcrowding• To prevent a recurrence of the epidemic, regulations for the operation of retails stores were adopted • These regulations for stores were issued by the City Health Department and Board of Public Safety and include the following:• 1) All stores shall be fully ventilated at all times• 2) At no time shall the atmospheric temperature in a sales department of a store exceed 65 degrees Fahrenheit and a sufficient number of thermometers shall be placed in prominent places in various departments in order for frequent readings to be made• 3) Every effort shall be made by store managers to instruct sales people under their supervision to be clothed appropriately to work in an environment of 65 degrees maximum• 4) every store manager of person in charge shall excuse any employee who shows any sign of employee. The employee shall remain excluded until they can furnish a satisfactory certificate from a regular physician stating they are not affected with influenza• 5) Store managers will be required to place prominently a placard in each elevator the capacity of passengers at one time, a number determined by the city ordinance regarding this• 6) No manager of a store shall allow such a number of people to stand in or about an entrance or exit of their store that will prevent the free movement in and out of patrons• 7) Managers shall make every effort to prevent loitering and congestion in their stores• 8) Portable display tables that may produce dangerous obstruction in the passage of patrons shall be removed or changed in location to provide sufficient space; in no circumstance shall any such table be placed within fifteen feet of an entrance or exit of a store• 9) all specified feature sales shall be limited to the period of opening and noon• 10) Store managers shall employ a sufficient number of employees whose duty shall be to prevent undue congestion in any part of the store• 11) Managers of poolrooms, billiard rooms, and bowling alleys are instructed to limit the number of persons admitted to their respective establishments to those actually engaged in the activities of their business• 12) Managers of saloons and soft drink establishments shall use very available means to prevent congestion of patrons in such establishments. No loitering or crowded shall be permitted at any times• Merchants are also asked to use every available means to encourage patrons to shop in the morning rather than the afternoon• School Superintendent O.L. Reid sent a letter to all school principals prior to the re-opening of schools tomorrow• In his letter Superintendent Reid stated that “I believe that you will agree with me that the ordinary task of imparting information is probably not the most important task of the schools at this time. We must preach the gospel of health for our own people and for the peoples of all other parts of the world. We must rigidly exclude from school all children affected by colds. It is better that child should lose his intellectual training at this time than that he should remain a center of contagion in the schools and cause others to have their resistance lowered by that most general and pernicious trouble, the common cold. Let us watch our own health and that of others as we have never done before. The influenza germ is still abroad in the land and a recurrence of our local trouble will be rendered impossible only through the most rigid vigilance throughout the community.”Newspaper article1,