Source, Rutland, Vt.Daily Herald--Mon.Oct.21, 1918. WEST PAWLET, Vt. The state road on the Rupert end of Indian River valley is nearly finished. The Pawlet end probably will not be built as the commissioner is fighting a hard battle with the plague, with his whole family sick, some of whom have been taken to the new hospital in Granville, N.Y., which had its birth last Sunday, and now has about 40 patients. Five persons died at Granville today. PAWLET HARD HIT BY EPIDEMIC. West Pawlet has been hard hit by the epidemic. Seven or eight here died in the village and around 20 percent are sick. Dr. Horner called at over 60 houses in one day, each house having one or more sick in bed. Two brothers were buried in the same grave Tuesday. Some were buried Wednesday and three Thursday. The German war relic cars passed through here to Granville and back to Salem Thursday. AN ATTEMPT TO BURN PROPERTY. Wednesday night Mrs. Lockwood, who lives at West Rupert, saw a light from her window. Going out to investigate she found a lighted torch in the leaves between the house and barn, which are but a few feet apart. Some one had thrown it in from the highway. A bundle a cloth was tied to the end of a stick about two feet long which had been soaked in some inflammable substance as the cloth had not burned much. NO LIQUOR FOR USE IN SICKNESS. There is no liquor to be had in Pawlet or Granville, N. Y., to bridge the sick ones over the epidemic. Such a condition will not aid the cause for a bone-dry nation. It is certainly going too far.