The Altamont Enterprise, Feb. 26, 1915

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Newsy Notes Gathered From All Parts of the Empire State Telling What Others Are Talking About

A woman walked into a Gloversville book store to exchange a book she received for Christmas “because she didn’t like the way it ended.”

For the first time in several months the sign, “No help wanted,” has made its appearance at the Watervliet arsenal. The many shops are running full blast, giving employment to 600 men, the greatest number in years.

At East Durham, Greene County, half grown grasshoppers have made their appearance, evidently brought into activity by the recent mild weather. The fields in some places fairly swarm with insects. Hundreds have been caught and imprisoned in bottles that doubters may be convinced.

The Twentieth Century Club of Middleburgh has made a request to the board of trustees of that village asking to pass an ordinance prohibiting the practice commonly called “horning” or serenading in the village on the occasion of marriages taking place, they deeming such disorderly conduct as tending to degrade and cast disrespect upon the solemn rites of matrimony.

Alonzo Comfort, of Monticello, Sullivan County, lost a fine cow recently under mysterious circumstances. It was thought the cow may have become tubercular, so he decided to make an examination to ascertain the cause of death. With the assistance of a friend he skinned the cow and opened it. They finally discovered that at some time or another it had swallowed a good sized sewing needle and it had worked its way into the cow’s heart finally causing its death.

Physicians have described as exceptional among medical cases that of Mrs. W. J. Fredericks, of Schenectady, who is gradually turning to stone. Her lower limbs are petrified and her arms stay in a fixed position across her chest. Her mind is clear, but her voice has failed and her husband and the nurses cannot understand the sounds she utters. Specialists say the case presents a new question and some believe the patient suffer from some kind of rheumatism. All regard her case as hopeless and wonder at her vitality. She has been ill for five weeks.

Village Notes

William Jones reports the presence of a red robin in the orchard near his home. A rag man was also seen about the village Tuesday. These are two good signs of an early spring.

POISONED BY A CHILD’S BITE

Physician, Infected in Operation, Is Saved by Brother

Dr. Samuel Kutscher performed an emergency operation on the throat of a child suffering from an abscess. The child suddenly closed his mouth and bit Dr. Kutscher on the index finger of his right hand.

The physician washed the wound in an antiseptic, but the next day his hand began to swell, blood poisoning having set in. Two or three days later his whole arm had grown to twice its normal size. Dr. Kutscher called in his elder brother, Dr. Martin Kutscher, and further treatment was administered. The poison did not yield to drugs, and then the patient was taken to Lebanon hospital in a state of coma.

Dr. Martin Kutscher determined not to amputate except as a very last resort. Every day he opened his brother’s arm, and he was in constant attendance upon him day and night, living at the hospital. Soon the sick man began to show signs of improvement and now Dr. Martin Kutscher, though admitting his brother is not out of danger, says he hopes for ultimate recovery.

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