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the competent hands of Mrs. W. O. Linton and Miss Lida Olive, Home
Demonstrator for Rowan County. She had previously received permission
from Mrs. McKimmon, State Home Demonstration Agent, to spend her entire
time upon work for the epidemic. Miss Olive gave her room in the com-
unity Building to be used as a Red Cross Diet Kitchen. This kitchen,
under the skilled management of these two ladies, who gave their
devoted and untiring labor to the work, became the pride of the City
and every delicacy for the very ill and the convalescent was prepared
by them each day. The kitchen remained open from ten to fifteen hours
daily. I give a typical list of the dishes served: Chicken soup, beef
froth, mutton broth, vegetable soup, potato and other creamed soups,
chicken loaf, veal loaf, chicken stew, croquetts, beef stew, beef
broth, boiled rice with butter, boiled custard, baked custart, gelatine
of various kinds, rice pidduing, egg-nog, baked apples, lemonade, milk
and butter milk. When the work was taken over on Co[^Oc}tover 18 by Mrs.
Linton and miss Olive we were feeding from sixty to eighty people a
day, but in two or three days we were feeding from one hundred and
thrity to one hundred and eighty daily. This continued until November
1st, after which the drop was rapid. The diet Kitchen was closed on
November 5th; the volunteer nursing ceased on November 7th. From
Tuesday, Octover 29th, to Saturday, November 2nd, Miss Louise Neave
ably filled the place of Mrs. Linton in the Diet Kitchen, who was
called home by illness, thus rounding out a career of usefulness,
including nursing and all other branches of the service.

Mrs. John H. Gorman, who took in charge the making of
the egg-nog, answering hurry calls at any hour, supplied with prempti-
tude and cheerfulness the allotment needed for each dday until it was
no longer necessary.
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