Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1874-11-25
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There will be services at the Con-
gregational Church Thanksgiving day
at the usual hour in the forenoon.-
Sermon by the Pastor, Rev. Mr.
Hicks. All are invited to attend.
REV. "Adirondack" Murray will
give Lecture at the Town Hall,
Tuesday evening, Dec. 1st. Subject
-"Poverty."
FATAL AccIDENr.-On Tuesday
morning as Mrs. Bancroft, wife of
Geo. w. Bancroft, who resides in the
second story of N. Goodale's house
on Central St., was. going down
stairs with some clothes in her hand
that she had been washing to hang
out in the shed, she missed step and
fell headlong, as it is supposed, to the
bottom ofthe stairs, striking stick of
wood, which laid the skull bare for
several inches, producing conclusion of
the brain which caused her death.
Mrs. Goodale heard something fall
down stairs but did not go at the time
to see what it was, as such things
were OF frequent occurrence. When
she had occasion to 60 shortly after,
she found Mrs. B., at the bottom Of
the stairs just as she fell. DR.. Sher-
win was Immediately called, but she
gasped only once after his arrival
He dressed the wound, and was of the
opinion that more timely medical aid
could not saved her life. She was a
woman highly esteemed by all who
knew her. Her age was not far from
as. Her husband and son have the
sympathies Of the community, in their
great affection.
AT the close of the usual Tuesday
evening prayer meeting of the Con-
gregational Church, this week, the
persons present voted to discontinue
the afternoon service in the Church
after the first of December next.
The High School, Exercises
last Friday were success, and both
Teacher and Scholars are entitled to
'credit marks" Parents and scholars
agree that William Dana, the princi-
pal, is the most thorough and compe-
tant teacher the school has had for
many years. Some thirty visitors
were present. Remarks were made
by Rev. Mr.. Hicks, Hon, w. G.
French, and others.
BY the combined orders of Presi-
dent Grant and Gov. Peck, tomorrow
Thursday will be observed as Thanks
giving in Vermont. Its principal
amusements for the boys will be eat
ing geese and turkeys and shooting
each other in cunning expeditions
The girls will dine with the old folks,
and get themselves up fearfully in
frills and furbelows for the evening
party, mainly for the purpose of see
ing who canlook the most bewitching.
The old folks will sit around after din
ner, drink 'thomases" and '.jeremiahs,"
and tell how lively things were on
Thanksgiving day when they were
young. All !! there are no such boys
and girls now, and no times like the
old times. Probably the young folks
of a-days think differently. We
trust that to our readers generally the
day will come with all its time-honor-
ed observances in full array. There
should be the family gathering about
the festive board-the grandparents,
parents, children, uncles, aunts, neph-
ews and neices the huge Drowned
turkey in the centre, fanked by lesser
fowl |; the smoking plum pudding
the custard pie; and more character
istic of the occasion than all, the real
old-style pumpkin pie. That pastry
compound is the very essence of the
occasion. What says Whittier when
he sings of Thanksgiving and it's as
sociations, as only Whittier can p
Alb on Thanksgiving Day. when from East
and from West
From North and from South. come the pilgrim
and guest
When the gray-haired New Highlander sees
round his board
Aho Va" pAoAoh uhho VI duoCtlOu re5tOrcU
When the care wearied man seeks his mother
once more,
Aud the worn matron smiles where the girl
smiled before
What moistens the lip and what brightens tho
eye,
What calls back the past, like rich Pumpkin
Pie1
To one and all, whether the gatherers
around the old hearth-stone, or the
wanderer in other lands, we wish
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