Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-16
VERMONT NOTES.

Over 100 cases of influenza develop
ed in Rutland over Sunday and two
prominent doctors were stricken. Not
large number of deaths are yet re-
! ported.
Virgil Pombrio, II, of Barre, was
the fourth member of his family to
die of influenza in Barre. His par
ents and older brother had all sue
cumbed to the disease.
St. Adams and Swanton are expert
encing a severe epidemic of influenza.
There are $50 cases in Swanton with
several deaths and SO have already
died in St. Adams. An emergency
hospital has been established there.
Two Kindred and fifty employees Of
& Maine railroad operating between
White River Junction and Sherbrooke
are inca facilitated for service this
eek on account of the epidemic.
10 Teru th!:can state convention will
be held, The original date was Oct
l but was postponed to Oct. Is. Again
the influenza situation calls for indef-
mite postponement. The resolutions
probably do so by mail to members
of the convention.
Owing to the epidemic of influenza
the edict of the state board of health
and the resignation of Rev. c. A.
Boyd, general secretary, on account
Of i'll health, the state Sunday school
convention, to have been held at Nor
risville Oct. 16, II and IS, has been
indefinitely postponed.
Grip and pneumonia have collected
a toll of $50 deaths in a fortnight in
Barre, but the epidemic began to
Wane last week. The largest number
of deaths in one day was IS. The
state board of health has been an i'm
portant factor in checking the plague,
and at one time and another 20 out
side physicians have been employed
there. The malady was particularly
severe in the Italian and Spanish col
onies.
Col. H. T. Johnson has compiled
the figures showing the casualties
among Vermont men since Sept. 1,
which is very interesting, in that it
shows that the largest death loss has
been from pneumonia, which exceeds
that Of those killed in action, but it
is nearly as great as the total num-
Der Of wounded in action. There have
been Is killed in action, 81 died of
pneumonia, AZ wounded in action, 4
died Of wounds.
AS result of conference between
W. C. Adams, chairman of the board
of commissioners of fisheries and
game in Massachusetts, and the YER
mont fish and game commissioner,
Linus Leavins, Vermont will send to
Massachusetts, it's surplus stock OF
eggs with which the wa
tiers of the Bay state will be stocked
and Massachusetts will send to YER
mont it's surplus Of Mallard ducks
and pheasants. The agreement is de-
signed to aid in increasing the food
supply of both states.
The resignation of J. Milo Jeffrey
as pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
church leaves the three churches in
Stowe without a settled pastor for the
first time, it is believed in the history
of the churches Rev. II. W. Cum
mings closed his work as pastor Of
the congregational church in Septem-
Der and Unity church has been with
out settled pastor since the resigna-
ton of Rev. F. T. Cram two years
ago. 1t is understood that Rev. Mr..
J Jeffrey has enlisted and will go to the
officers training camp at Fort Lee,
Va.
Orwell experienced a real crisis
during the past week, owing to the
loss Of both Of the two physicians in
the town by pneumonia. DIR. L. F.
Alfred Ouellet, who had practiced
medicine in Addison county for 20
years, died of broncho-pneumonia,
having been i'll but a few days; and
DR.. Vincent H. Coffee, who has been
practicing in Orwell for the past
year and a half, also died of pneu-
monia after an illness of less than a
week. During the illness of the two
physicians and since their death
there has been real suffering in many
homes where Spanish influenza or
the grip had gained foothold, and it
was practically impossible to receive
any medical aid.
James Burke Of Fair Haven, was
electrocuted and Herbert Allard of
Rutland IAN electrician for the Rut-
land Railway Light & Power Co., met
death Sunday in manner as yet I'M
explained at the plant of the Staso
Milling company in Castleton, where
new transformers were being INSTALL
ed. Allard was on top of one of the
newly installed instruments pouring
in oil when Engineer Tyler Earle of
Rutland heard a noise and saw Burke
lying dead within the forbidden area,
his body burning as 1920 volts pass
ed through it. Allard was then
standing on the non electrified trans
former apparently uninjured. Earle
hurried away to have the current
shut off and on returning in a few
seconds found Allard on the floor be-
side the transformer dead. 1t is said
that he could not have received a
shock and probably fell and struck
on his head.