Rich County Reaper | 1937-03-26 | Page 3 | Death Takes Long Holiday in Hamlet

death eath takes long holiday in hamlet san gottardo italy death has taken a long holiday from this small hamlet parish registers reveal that for three years no deaths have oc cured among its inhabitants calamity howlers bowlers how lers however are greatly concerned the hamlet has grown into a nest of old men and old women and births are rapidly declining for the past three years there have been no deaths but there have been no births either A sizeable proportion of the hamlets population is composed of men and women over years old the village priest a bent old man himself remarked recently to a visiting bishop do you know your excellency chave I 1 have almost forgotten how to recite the funeral service