The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-10-31
TALK OF THE TOWN
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| Mrs. George Aiken of West Lebanon,
n. H., called on friends in Barre and
Montpelier yesterday.
There will be meeting of the Pres.
| byterfan choir in the home Of Miss Hazel
Maekay Of Park street Friday evening at
| 7 o'clock
Barre people who have been patients
at the Fanny Allen hospital, Winooski
park, in recent years, will regret to learn
of the deaths Of Sister Mcdonald and
Sister Coupal, nurses IN the institution,
who succumbed to attacks of pneumonia.
Letters received yesterday from Pri.
yate Lee Maiden Of the l02d infantry,
now in France, indicate that he emerged
unscathed from recent offensive, and
that the detachment with which he has
been serving is now in rest billets for a
time.
The case of State vs.. Joseph Comolli,
charged with a violation of the liquor
law, has been set for hearing before
Magistrate H. w. Scott In municipal
court Friday morning The case grows
out of a charge that the respondent sold
liquor by the bottle.
Letters written Oct. 8 and 10 assure
Mr.. and Mrs. M. S. Levin OF Merchant
street that their son, Corp. Harry Levin
Of the American expeditionary forces, is
In good health. He eneluses the official
coupon which will enable his parents to
send him a Christmas package, and in
referring to presents that would be de-
sirable, he advises them not to send him
any tobacco, as plenty may be obtained
overseas now. Zone Of the fellows had a
Barre Times of Aug. 2l,' he adds, land
believe me, | enjoyed reading It." Every
man In Corporal Levin's division Is en-
titled to wear on his hat green cord
with red thread running through it.
which constitutes divisional citation
for services rendered In the front line
Corporal Levin expresses the hope that
peace may come in the near future, al.
though he is one OF the American soldiers
who does not anticipate half peace
Fine weather prevailed in France at the
time of writing. Corporal Levin is now
attached to the divisional postoffice.
A Barre physician who used bleeding
successfully in his treatment Of infuenza
lpatients during the recent epidemic sub,
nits the following report from the Acad
envy Of Medicine in Paris, which was is
sued Oct. 20; Zone of the last meeting:
of the academy was devoted to study
OF the influenza question, otherwise
known as Spanish influenza, which ha:
ragged through certain section oil
France. In his report, DIR. Meter showed
FIRST the identity Of the present sickness
with the great epidemic of $4,000
symptoms, results, contagion were al
the same. 1t is a curious fact that per
sons Of certain ages cannot be afflicted
by the malady. Researches in bacteria
ogy by DIR. Meter and DR.. Moser caus.
them TO certify that the Pfeiffer bacils
is the agent of the sickness, although ii
the past this claim has been denied. o.
the latter question DIR. Bezancon is con
Quoting more extended investigation
and for that reason conclusions are post
poned The academy also heard com
munication from Drs. Bezancon AMI
Wurtz which shows that In spite Of thu
violence of certain intestinal compiled
tions Of the influenza, 1t is related Meth
er TO cholera nor typhus. Dr. Ravant hal
cited some cases Of aspyhxia influenza Ii
which the acute vedema Of the lungs il
simulated, and he advises treatment by
an abundant bleeding and urotropin. tn,
academy's report also concludes that tn,
term Spanish is misnomer, as the dis
ease ragged elsewhere long before 1t brokt
out in Spain