The Ouachita Telegraph - Smallpox Scare in Arcadia

Date: May 2000
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>

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The Ouachita Telegraph
Saturday, February 22, 1873
Page 2, Column 3

SMALLPOX EXCITEMENT IN ARCADIA

 At Dr. C.Q. Butler's house, two miles from town on the Minden Road,
were seven cases, one white man and six freedmen.  Two deaths occurred,
but the rest are in a fair way of recovery.
A Mr. Miller, his wife and four children, three-quarters of a mile from
Dr. Butler's, were all taken with it and one death occurred.  The rest
are slowly recovering.  On Brushy Valley road were five cases at the
Widow Butler's, two proving fatal.  It is hoped the disease is on the
decline.

NOTE: This is a portion of an article about a smallpox scare in Arcadia.

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