Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1874-02-12


Austin E. Simmonds will speak
at Written hall on Sunday next, Feb.
18th at the usual time Of service.
-Chas. f. Kidder has rented E.
L. Summers restaurant. Mr.. Sumner
has moved onto his farm in Bridge
water.
The ladies of the Universalist
society will hold st. Valentines
festival at the Town Hall, Thursday
evening", Feb. 18th.
The Greeley Club have paid the
Band S. for music dealt out to it
one evening during the Presidential
Campaign. There is " owing from
the successful party for like service,
but they don't come down with the
"scrip." Why is this thus?
The Windsor County Temper
ance Society will meet at the Town
Hall, on Tuesday, Feb. 10th, at ii
o'clock a. M, to choose officers for
the year ensuing and to nominate a
candidate for County Commissioner.
The concluding lectures of the
course here will be given by Wendell
Phillips and DR.. Chapin-Phillips
speaking March 10th and Chaplin
March 25th. The subjects are not
determined.
The Rev. w. B. Tying Smith, Of
West Claremont, N. H., will officiate
in St. James Church on Sunday next,
both morning and evening.
A Grange, numbering 1O7, was
organized here Monday evening" 1t
was managed and differed by shay
seed" folks, OF, "honest farmer" We
understand they have consented to
take in 'greasy mechanics at 50
per head. Those "l1ayseeds,"
Dealels in watered milk and watered stocks,
Will lead the Glands" to pastures-on the
rocks.
Stick to the Democratic party.
We understand that new order
of beings entitled the ''Sovereigns of
Industry" who take in eOerythi"g-
auxiliaries to the grangers--are to
have a session at the Town Hall some
evening this week. A long haired
apostle of the order from some far
off place is in town, and says he will
establish a branch of the "Sovereigns
in town before he leaves Or ''burst. -
We had a talk with him the other day
He says he can do everything-noth-
ing impossible to him and his ''order.'
Why he assured us that if we wanted
stick of candy to take home to the
baby, we might order it through the
"order," and in about three weeks we
would receive it direct from the manu-
facturer, save t of a cent, and thereby
do away with those ''rascally middle
men, Who wouldn't bea "Granger'
or Sovereign 2"
dartmouth College students have
stopped publishing their new Anvil
and gone back to old sledge.
Mr.. George Mellish's house was
entered Monday night by some thief or
thieves, who took his watch and chain
which hung up side of his bed. Mrs.
Mellish thought she heard some one
in the room and told Mr.. Mellish so.
He got up and didn't see anything
wrong. Shortly after Mrs. NJ. on
hearing her daughter coughing up
stairs, got up to see what the matter
was, and on returning, missed the
watch and chain The front door
was found unlocked, and whether left
so by the family, or opened by false
key, is not known. The watch and
chain was valued at $50.
The Woodstock Reading Club
boys-somc of them-got on a ''tare"
the other night, ringing door-bells,
etc, etc. This is not intellectual en-
ployment-it is muscular and peace
able citizens would like to have them
desist. Some of them had so much
rum in them that they had to "double
over" on the steps for 'relief'
DIR. Phelps says Donoghue's
''inards' were perfectly sound. This
is a nut for temperance men to crack,
as Donoghue was known to be
very Incorporate mah all his life.
- Weather misunderstanding
excelent-.take out your 'gal," sold
woman" Or grandmother" and see
if they wont enjoy it.
We are indebted to States At
torney w. E. johnson for copy of
an extra from the Journal office from
which we cnmniled nrr rennrt of the