The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1913-11-13
AROUND rnE STATE.

Earthquake shocks were distinct
~ felt a. stowe Friday afternoon.
put no damage was done, The sehool
house vas shaken and the ramhlings
could DO pialnly heard
IA, h Davis. laundry man o.
Burlington, filed ~ iiion ia hank
ruptcy Saturday with liabilities OF
Sas9e,9s and assets OF sg5oo Of
which $500 IL claimed exempt
A can Of liquid stove backing
axploded IN tho hands OF woman
In house Ia Barre Wednesday. act
ling fire TO clothes hanging nearby
and the woodwork near a window
But little damage WAS done.
About 40 acres of undorbraah on
aha Clark farm ia Essox Junetlan
were burned over Friday, The fire
department was called out and ses-
sral men were employed In putting
the blaze out. II is supposed that
a train SGT fire 10 the grass.
An alarm clock was the means
employed the other day IN Montpel-
Ter to persuade an unwelcome
skunk visitor to depart from a
house. Every other means failed
and finally long-winded alarm
was set down in the room occupied
by the skunk. which fled In terror,
The house and part OF the barns
on the w. J. plastridge farm at
the -Four Corners. Mortified. were
burned at an early hour last Thurs
day morning, the fire catching from
defective flue. The farm was pur-
chased about year ago by John
Il. kletecka of Brattleboro, and his
soss will be considerably above the
insurance A portion OF the house
hold goods was saved and all the
stock In the barns
Among other improvements being
made 10 the state house at Mont
pelier are rubber mating for the
stairs TO the Senate chamber and
the House Of Representatives, new
mating for the corridors In the
main lobby and carpet for the main
floor of the hall of the House, asso
new electric chandeliers for the cor
ridors on the first floor have been
ordered. The new carpet, buft
shade OF red, has been laid on the
floo- outside the hall OF the House
The Plymouth Congregational
church OF Milwaukee, the most i'm
portant church OF that denomination
In the Northwest. has extended
cal. to Rev. Jay T. Stocking to be-
come it's pastor Mr. Stocking Is
now with the church in Nowtonville,
Mass, and previous TO that was
pastor In Bellows Falls. During his
pastorate there the $4,000 debt OF
the church was paid up.
David Lacoss of White River
Junction is eating homegrown wat
armelons these days, having raised
rs on land in that village, They are
of good size and flavor and are
sound. He was Obliged to pick them
earlier than he wished on account
of the September frost, and thinks
if they had had 10 days more TO
mature they would have been unus-
ually good.
big hen hawk, with a wing
spread OF so inches. was killed by
Mrs. Truman White at her home
I'm bennington by trampling u 10
leath with her feet Mrs. White
was feeding her poultry when she
heard 'owl cry In the nearby
woods, and, upon investigation, found
a large hawk attacking her prize
,ooster Then she attacked the
hawk. BY kicking the bird she
disabled IL 30 IL So"th NV i'i
although II fought her, she won ou,
and killed 1t.
The death OF Mrs. Jane Beach OF
In Essex Junction, November 2. al
the age OF 81, brings TO mind the
fact that her grandfather. Captain
Abram Stevens. was the first settler
in Essex, going there In 1888. lie
had / 900 acres Of land, which was
a grant to him, he having been a
soldier in the Revolutionary war.
Capt. Stevens gave TO the town the
land for the village cemetery. where
he was buried 81 years ago lasl
March and where Mrs. Beach was
buried. Mrs Beach's father. Henry
teacbout, built the first house IN
what Is now the village. in 1906. the
house now owned by j. A. Donahue.
The old brick hotel was built ~
yIears ago by Capt Stevens for his
son Albert