Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-06-22

and Ice Cream Festival, Friday evening, jun
3Oth, in the Town Hall, Woodstock. Music b.
the Woodstock Cornet Band. Adrnisson 25cts
- Mrs. Rufus E. Townsend of this Villag
has subscribed for $1,000 of the W. r. l
Bonds. Son of man. go and do likewise
We devote considerable portion of thu
AGE this week to Railroad matters, and trus
and hope that our labor will not be in vain, bu
that ecery man will do his duty in the matte
of a railroad to this village
Mr.. Daigle advertises some houses
for sale in this place, See his ad. il
another column.
The tent meetings Of the Advent
Christians dissolved in the rain OF
Sunday.
A potato bug was found the 9th
er day on the apex of a church spire
in Woodstock. lie used it as IN OBJ
servatory,
Read the Poem entitled "Betsey
Destroys the Paper" 1t is the seque
to 'Betsey and l are Out" published
by us short time since.
Cant we have Fourth of July
celebration here this year? We hope
the youth Of the place will be ALLOWED
to celebrate-if nothing more.
E. X. Smith & Son are building
a Bakery at White River Junction.
They should have come to Woodstock.
The citizens of Quechee are about
to manufacture a Graded School House
out Of the old Brick Church there.
If we are not successful in push
ing through our railroad, the coming
man, as he approaches our village,
trayel-stained and foot-sore, will he
able to sympathise with the grasshop.
pers which he will find sitting on our
fences weeping over the nakedness Of
the place.
-Four times this week, if Doton figures right,
Old Sol is bound to keep his rays in sight
Through hours 15 and minutes 80
From Tuesday morn till Fridays hours are thro' ;
Then on his southwark course he starts again,
And yields to Night minutes daily gain.
AS unawares these longest days have come
SO stealthily Time bears us toward the tomb.
June 20, 1871. Il. A. Miller.
Lewis Pratt, Philo Hatch, +. w
Clarke, A. Stearns, S. +. Munger and
n. 7. Churchill are among the subscri
bcrs TO the II. II. bonds, in this village.
a subscription paper has been got up
by the young men Of this valley, to
which it is expected to get one hun
dred subscribers at 500 each.
- There are quite number
of persons who have been owing lis
for this paper for a long time,
and now that we need the money
more than ever before to pay up on
our new press, etc, we hope they
will come forward manfully and help
us in pinch. If every man would
read his o,rn paper instead Of Ours,
we could pay our Indebtedness to-
morrow. Don't hang back.
Our schools.
The close of the Spring Term of the different
departments of the Woodstock Graded School
will be as follows: The Primary Schools, on
Friday, June 23d, and the examination of the
classes will take place on that day. All the
other schools will close on Friday June 30th.
The examination of the Intermediate School
will take place on Tuesday afternoon, June
9th, and that of the Grammar School on
Wednesday afternoon, June 2Sth. The classes
in the different divisions of the High School
will be examined in the following order:
THURSDAY FORENOON, JUNE 29rH.
End division in Arithmetic.
4th = " Physiology.
ID g g Physical Geography.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
Sd division in Algebra.
4th :" Virgil.
FRIDAY FORENOON, JUNE 30TH
Sd division in Physical Geography.
4th % " Astronomy.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
4th division, Original Essays.
8 Select reading exercises.
Exercises in Gymnastics and Closing Exer-
cises.
All the examinations are to be public, and
,itizens generally are invited to attend.
BY Order of Prudential Committee.
Sunday was good old-tashioned
rainy day, so that our drouth is relieved
for the moment, and vegetation fairly
laughs. The hay crop, however, must
he liOht. even if we shOuld have Dlentv