The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-02-03
About the State

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With the death of j. S. Waite last
week, the number Of Civil war veterans
in Hyde Park is reduced to seven.
Carroll Manchester was badly scald-
ed recently when he accidentally slipped
into a tub Of boiling water in the laun-
dry of the Vermont sanatorium at Pitts.
ford.
Mr.. Carey of Eden, an elderly man.
fell from ladder while in the barn
feeding his stock and put his hip out
of Joint. He was unconscious when
found and nearly frozen to death. His
condition is serious.
John Reilly, a Cuban lad, who is
student at st. Johnsbury academy, is
Just out of Brightlook hospital at that
place, where he had been since Christ
mas, suffering from blood poisoning He
blistered his heel and then went snow
shoeing While he was snowsboeng, he
broke the blister, and the dye from his
stocking poisoned the foot and limb.
Local Forecaster Shaw Of the United
States weather bureau at Mortified re-
ports a mean temperature for January
of 10 degrees, with a maximum of SIS
on the "a and q minimum of II below
zero on the 5th. The greatest daily
range was A degrees, on the 30th, and
the least daily range was eight degrees
on the 9th. The normal January tenn
perature is 10 degrees. The month was
made up of ten clear, four partly cloudy
and II cloudy days, Precipitation oc-
CURED on 10 days.
Mrs. Viola Tyler celebrated her s7th
birthday anniversary January 20 at the
home OF her daughter in East Concord
She has always been an Industrious
hard working woman and is we'll pre-
served, She is the mother of II chill
dren six now living She has "a grand
children living and has buried II. She
has AZ great grandchildren living and
has buried II and has one great great
granddaughter, which completes the
fifth generation Besides assisting in
the household duties this winter she
has already knit ten pairs double nit
tens, six pairs double gloves aud six
pairs mems fancy stockings,
Probably only the undertakers and
those afflicted realize how great was
the mortality in Rutland during the
month Of January. There were 81
deaths. more than double the number |
occurring in some previous years. A
curious fact concerning the record il
that almost none of the fatalities were
due to contagious diseases or the usual /
winter diseases, like pneumonia aud the /
grippe. Pneumonia caused but one /
death, tuberculosis two, senile debility |
three heart disease five and appendicitis /
one During the month there were
total of 81 cases Of contagious diseases |
reported: Typhoid fever four, mumps
forty, whooping cough four, chickenpox /
two, diphtheria one measles one, scar
let fever one.
The reading Of a dime novel about |
gypses nearly cost the life Of Neil the +
nine year-old grandson Of M. H. Gross |
Of St Adams. Following the reading /
Of the story, he started to 20 skating, I
and when he did not return at night I
his people became alarmed and insti /
tuted search He was finally found +
ut II o'clock at night, hiding under I
i piazza, where he had crawled in ter
ror when big barge bearing a crowd I
out for sleigh ride hove in sight. /
blowing horns and having a good time.
The boy said he was sure that they I
were gypsies and after him, so he hid +
and kept quiet. The little fellow was
exposed for about four hours and is
in bad condition following his expert
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