Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1874-02-19
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South Woodstock wants to be
Granger. Go in.
is civilization failure, or is the
Frenchman played out? 1t would
appear that the Frenchman is played
out, any way. Bumblebee e. Garten,
having purchased the Elm st. Grocery
of II, Swan. The owner,ofth building
Mr.. Taylor, it is said, has ordered
them to leave the premises before
Saturday night. This is hard on the
boys, as they have put their bottom
dollar into the concern. We do not
know what reason is given for this
proceeding. Can't "A Frenchman do
business here? II would appear not
from Mr.. Taylors idea of things
If he takes y moral view of the mat
ter, the concern is no worse Ill their
possession than some others who have
inhabited it. We hope he will let
them remain, and see how they con-
due, themselves. A man should have
trial before he is pronounced guilty
The Episcopal Society is out ofdebt
This is owing in u great measure to
the labor Of the ladies and its late
pastor, Rev. j. a. d. Hughes.
There are so many local clubs and
organizations of one kind and another
here. that it is not safe to say any
thing about them for fear of getting
them mixed. We reached out our
hand for Club last week and GOT the
wrong one by the ear, 1t was not
the Woodstock Reading Club boys
that pulled bell-knobs, doubled them
selves up, etc, etc, around the streets.
1t was the IT. G. c." a shoal of young
fry, who have room near or adjoin.
ing the w. r. c. room, and meet to
raise -. When one of them saw
those No. fourteens moving for him,
sthe play interested him no more"
"A Concert and Dance is announc-
ed by Hough's Band at the Town
Hall, Feb, "a. Bill, $3.50; supper
$l.0O. Go.
Every family is likely to have a
Grange of its own in time, and the
member that cannot be infected with
the tomfoolery will have to 60 out to
the barn to say his prayers.
The Woodstock Grange is in
running order. None but farmers
and their wives and daughter are
admitted. 50 women belong to it
already.
The Universalst festival at the
Town Hall, last week, was we'll attend
ed, and was pleasant and profitable
The receipts amounted to about 1920.
The February term of the SUI
preme Court here commences on
Thursday the 26th Pierpoint, chief
Judge, and Peck, Wheeler, and Ross,
assistants.
Mr.. Joseph Hathaway of English
Mills has placed in the public square,
there to remain for the benefit of
''stump orators,' auchoneers, ETC., the
but end of a tree cut by him on land
owned by Mr. Philo Hatch, in Bridge
water 1t is elm, and where cut off
at the stump, four feet from the
ground, was six and one half feet in
diameter. Fifty feet from the ground
it divided into three limbs, each about
two feet in diameter, from which
several saw logs were cut 1t has
furnished 1900 feet of sawed lumber,
block mentioned above, and five
cords Of four foot wood.
Weather mild--sledding poor
stages, etc. on wheels. Something
new for this section at this season OF
the year.
That Sovereign Of Industry"
spoken of last week, held Il meeting in
Written Hall, Wednesday evening,
and mustered four recruits. He is
going for 'em again sometime.