https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86092536/1918-11-20/ed-1/seq-8/#date1=1918&sort=date&date2=1918&words=influenza+Influenza&language=&sequence=0&lccn=&index=6&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=influenza&year=&phrasetext=&andtext=&proxValue=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1121

The social effect of influenza is broad in West Virginia: the Parkersburg Mystic Shrine has had to delay the initiation ceremony; Dr Claude Thomas has been assigned as an assistant surgeon general in Martinsburg to address the mines closed by influenza; and in Morgantown the county boys and girls farm show is postponed and then abandoned for the year.

Source: “State News,” The Wheeling Intelligencer, Wheeling, West Virginia, November 20, 1918. Page 8, Column 1.