Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1870-12-22
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A.. NJ, regular convocation Dec. 2G
1870, II o'clock, p. M.
WooDsToCK LODGE No. 81 F. & A
NJ, regular communication Jan. 4th
1871, z o'clock, Pm. %
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC -
Regular Meeting of Sheridan Post, No
%, Dept. of Vermont, G.. A. R., ii
held on the 1st & Sd Thursday Evenings
of each month. All applications for mus
ter must be made at Regular Meetings
BY order of the Post Commander.
G. A. WOODBURY., AJt
We wish our reader and fellow pat.
rons, one and all, a "Merry Christmas. u"
Our colored population is increasing.
A XVIII Amendment by the name of
Todd, who had to do with white
girl at South Woodstock year or two
ago, found 10 pound chunk for a
damsel of color by the name of Hazard,
one day last week. He is now ruminat-
ing in Jail here upon the uncertainty of
certain things. "Mal practice" that.
Last season at this time we were
having good sleighing. The worst
snow storm of the season occurred on
the 4th of December. We had a slight
fall of snow this week-not enough for
sleighing The weather is mild.
There are forty one Young Mems
Christian Associations in Vermont.
a meteorological observatory, au-
thorized by the government is estab-
lished at Middlebury.
Hay is quoted in this region at SIG
ton. People are confident however
that $40 will be the figure next spring.
DR.. Flagg will be at the Eagle Hotel,
Woodstock, on the 23d and oath inst.
The Episcopal Festival at the Town
Hall on Wednesday evening was a
success in every particular. The
Woodstock Band, under the lead OF
DR.. Cotton, furnished excellent music
on the occasion. We learn it Melted to
the society's treasury the sum of about
one hundred and ninety dollars.
Frank Darby, while perambulating
about town one evening last week,
dropped into Walter Palmer's shoe store,
and finding Walter busy, slipped out,
and walked off with pair of 'tAlaska"
boots that hung outside the door,
Palmer has long head for "ways that
are dark, and he "went for him." and
recovered his boots the next evening
Vermont has gained in her population
since 1920, period of fifty years, a.
S45 inhabitants. Not bad.
All in want of first class Sewing Ma
chimes are invited to call on Dana &
Newcomb and see the best Sewing Ma
chine in the world, the genuine Elias
Howe Sewing Machine, which gained
gold medal over 80 other machines at
the Paris exposition. They also offer
the Improved Wilson Machine, which is
rapidly growing into favor among all
classes. Good inducements to purchas.
ers.
Lyman B. Woodland, of Chester, died
on the 10th inst, aged So years, mos.
His son Charles died some four weeks
previous, both of Typhoid Fever. Mr..
w. was consistent democrat, a mem.
Der of the Masonic Fraternity, and
good citizen. His acquaintance and
friends join in coincidence with the fam
lily in their irreparable loss. H.R. t.
To parties in want of Sewing Ma
chimes at low price Dana & New
comb offer the A. B. Howe, called the
"Original Howe Improved" Manufac-
at 437 Broadway, at S45. Call and
see it.
Don't forget "Carlton's" Lecture at
the Town Hall, Woodstock, to morrow
(Friday) evening AS a writer, travel
er and lecturer he has hardly any equal.
All should hear him.
STATE TEACHERS AssocIATIoN.-The
twenty first annual meeting of this body {
will be held at Mortified on Wednes-
day, Thursday and Friday, the 25th,
26th, and 9th Of January. A lecture
will be given on Wednesday evening, !
but the Association will not organize ,
until nine o'clock Thursday morning.
Addresses are expected from Prof.
Webber of Middebury, Secretary French,
Mr.. S. Dana of Woodstock, and Mr..
Louis Polens aud DR. G. P. Thayer OF
Burlington.
The Ladies Sewing Society have
presented Mrs. Dascomb, wife of their
pastor, with purse of$1OO. That will
do for Christmas present.
Mrs. Howes of Bridgewater Centre
was thrown from sleigh last Sunday
morning while on her way to church
and dislocated her shoulder.