The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-04-04
new ENGLAND NEWS
IN TABLOID FORM
Items of Interest From All
Sections Of YankeaIand

! New England has now passed IN
100000 mark. A large number o
towns and cities have already en-
rolled 100 per cent Massachusetts
still leads the States with over a
/. per cent The total enrolment IL
New England TO date is 4O9, ,53s
An explosion in the plant of the In
ternational Explosives Company
Swanton. VI, engaged in manufac'
turing primers and detonators foi
the Government. caused the death OF
one young woman employee, fatal in.
jury to second and serious injuries
TO a third woman Fifteen persons
most of them women, were al work
at the time, and nearly all suffered
slight burns and wounds. The explos
ion occurred at an inspection table
and probably was accidental The
building which was l50 feet long and
go feet wide, and a small shack ad-
joining were destroyed.
James d. Perkins, proprietor OF a
tide water mill Kennebunkport, Me,
is probably the only man In this
country whose labor will not be af-
iected by the daylight saving plan
The mill is located on the Meu-
sam river. At food tide Mr.. Per-
kins closes gates and confines the
water In reservoir. As the tSe
ebbs he allows the water to escape
through sluiceway over the wheel OF
his mill and has power to grind wheat
and corn until the tide has gone out.
AS the tide is about an hour later
each day 1t is necessary for Mr.. Per
kins to regulate his hours with ebb
and flow. Therefore he goes to work
an hour later each day, and Is not
concerned with daylight saving. Mr.,
Perkins comes OF Revolutionary stock
Is thoroughly patriotic and has pur-
chased Liberty Bonds and contribu
ted to the Red Cross
The death at the age of ninety
eight years of Zebina s. Doane has
been recorded with the Supreme
Council of the Royal Arcanum. Mr..
Doane had the distinction of being
the oldest member Of the order and
of having paid every assessment from
The fret on Jan. Is, 1878, up to and
March 1918 Mr.. Doane was
twice rerated in the order, once at
the age of eighty-six and again at
The age of ninety-feven. He entered |
the fraternity at Somerville. Mass, |
which was his home when he was |
fifty eight years old,
Milk, even at II cents a quart, is |
he cheapest Of food and more wide
;pread consumption must be ccnsid- |
'red by the mass of the people, ac-
,ording to Miss Frances Stern, dieti
ian at the food clinic maintained by |
he Boston Dispensary. Miss Stern
,poke to the one hundred women
ten teams now striving
0 raise the balance Of the $4,000
leeded in the Dispensary drive She
aid that milk is the safety factor in
utrition, and that children over two
ears of age should have at least the
quivalent of three glasses OF milk a
ay.
Concord has a mystery! 1t is all
bout three ducks and four ducks
ggs. Mrs. Thomas McDermott Of Is
;edford court owns three ducks, and |
arly in the week she found four
uck's eggs in the nests where her
ucks made their home in the rear OF
er home. A close watch was then
ept over the McDermott duck yard
} see that no strange duck went into
le yard. Four eggs were found
gain in the McDermott duckhouse,
nd now the neighbors are convinced
lat Mrs McDermott has truly won
erful ducks But still Mrs. Nc
ermott and her neighbors are puz
ed. for Tliey do not know which
lck is laying the two eggs In a day.
Fifteen women teachers from the
igh and grammar schools, Water
lie, Me, descended upon the school
oard with demand for 20 per cent.
Use They declared that mill girls /
ere better paid than teachers. In {
'eased cost OF living was the great =
-gument. Shoe leather was another 4
lint The schoolroom floors are hard n
. soles. The teachers cited ad &
inces received by other municipal
nployes. II laborers, police and even
e school janitors get more pay, :
by not the teachers? The board re- /
rred the request 10 special com :,
ittee
The Governors approval OF the b
idget bill last week gave this years
Legislature good
ad oyer that o. 1917 In the accom- +,
ishment Of appropriation work In !,
uding the budget appropriations. 4
e Legislature for 1918 has thus far !,
ade appropriations aggregating :,
8 ,26G G07 Al this time last year
e appropriations amounted to $24.
z .22C Gov Mccall has approved 5
general acts this year and i07 q
eclal bills He has gent In bat one o.
TO IL Gov Coolidge has signed one g
neral ae, and one special bin u