Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-11-15
VGrnllnt News.

ST. ALBANs-The tai statistics of Yer
| mont each year furnish much interesting and
! valuable information concerning marriages,
| divorces, births and deaths. The official re-
! port compiled under the direction Of the See
| retary OF the State Board of Health embraces
the latest figures published, and covers Il Pc
rod OF II months. The report opens with
! statement regarding population, and it is
estimated that Vermont had 332, 450 inhabi-
! tants in 1892 a gain of % since the census of
1870. The percentage of pOpu,atiOn to the
total population Of New England is given as
o. -. According to the census of 1890 there
We're l69,32I males, and l63, ,095 females in
| Vermont.
The state contains 1876 square miles, being
eXcee icI in area only by Maine among tho
New England states. Vermont has n pOpu-
iatlon OF 364 to the square mile. Maine has
y |. and New Hampshire Al s to the SQUARE
| mile New England contains 70. inhabitants
to the square mile The marriages in Yer
mont for the year covered by the report were
2,9O5, which is at the rate OF 8 "A per 1000 of
the population.
There were l67 divorces granted during
the year, which is one to every IS marriages
for the year, and per cent of each 10 900 Of
the population In the divorces granted, SO
men were libe lants al ia women. The
whole number of births In the state for tho
year were 6,55S, of which 1866 were males
ana 8. 1873 females There were 5.090 or 7S 2
1er cent OF American parentage, and ,423, or
2l.S per cent of foreign parentage.
Fhe total number of deaths registerei were
5,'7 lich made the death rate per 900 in
lnuaolants 1876. Only one other New Eng
land state had smaller death rate, viz.
Maine, where it was 1873. The proportion
OF deaths divided among the sexes in Yer
mont was l7.4 of males, and 1874 of females
per 1000 of population. The deaths by aga
were as follows; Under one, 9S1 between ono
and five, 325; between five and ten l6S; be-
tween 10 and 90 271: between % and 80 4O7:
between 30 and 40 377 between 40 and SO, 376
between 80 and 60, 457; between 60 and 20
7SO; between 70 and so, 1910; between 50
and 80 776; between 80 and 100, 1856. Tho
ratio OF deaths of infants under one to the
births were 1856 per 1000.
BRATTLEBoRo The first attempt in a long
time to enforce the prohibition law was
started here recently, the town and village
authorities being the prime movers Deputy
sherffs from several towns in the county
were summoned and seven places were
visited simultaneously, from one to four
eases OF beer being found in EACH with tho
exception of the Estabrook bottle
washing establishment, on Fiat street, whero
there were found 40 to so kegs The owners
OF the place claim that the beer is owned hy
a Springfield brewing concern, and that it
was stored here to be shipped when wanted
to the beer saloons directly across the Con-
necticut river. on the New Hampshire side.
The cases against the proprietors of six of
the saloon keepers were continued. John
Wright was fined 800 and costs for being n
common seller but he appealed. The claim
Is made that the beer seized is hop beer, and
that the law was not violated in selling
Samples from each saloon will be a1al,z zsd.
j.. W. Mcclure, who has been chief Of police
eight years, was asked to sign the complaint
for the raid, but instead Of doing so he prs-
sented his resignation.
DR.. A. d. Putnam, probably the Oldest
active dentist in Vermont, if not in tho
United States, died in Brattleboro, re-
Gently, of heart trouble after an Illness Of
several weeks. He was born in Sharon, N.
Y, Jan. IL, 1916. DR.. Putnam came to Bat
tleboro in 1887. He began the study of
dentistry in Greenwich, N. Y, in 1912. and
in 1916 opened an Office on Main street,
where be has followed his profession for Al
years, OUTLYING all his contemporaries IN
business here.