While searching for an unrelated item, I came across in an announcement entitled. “Associations postponed,” “By Elder R. H. Pittman, in the October 1917 issue of Zion's Advocate, which announced the suspension for one year of the Ketocton and Ebenezer Associations. The postponement was “On account of the rather rigid quarantine against infantile paralysis.”

Elder Pittman went on to explain: “Possibly the meetings could have been held without any ill effect, but they would not have been well attended even by our own people. Many would not have attended, and many could not have done so and left their children at home.”

“We know it is our duty, as citizens, to obey the powers that be' when it is not an attempt to bind our consciences or maliciously interfere with our worship. The local authorities in Page and surrounding counties, in adopting quarantine regulations, or striving to serve and protect the people at large. And while all Primitive Baptists in our Associations possibly felt to regret the postponement, and some especially so, yet let all cheerfully accept the situation and turn our thoughts to the prospective meetings next year with Front Royal and Mill Creek churches, if the Lord will, for these churches understand, of course, that the delay is only a postponement, and they hope to have the association meet with them when they convene.”
 

It is interesting that even though this was during the time of the great influenza epidemic, it was not that particular disease that caused the postponements - Editor.