Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-06-09
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Woodstock.
-"My Sunday Evening Mail is
what the girls term it now.
We had a splendid rain on Mon
day, and it caused vegetation to put
on the broadcast kind of smile. To-
day CTuesday) it is clear and cool.
Rev. Mr.. Hatch, Il young man not
vet licensed, preached in the Congre-
ore gational church, last Sunday, two
sermons which woul have done honor
to any d. D. in the land.
Rev. Lewis w. Hicks, the pastor is
expected to return from his visit to
Connecticut and Massachusetts during
the present week.
Last Friday, the Woodstock Post
yielded up the ghost, aged 8 years 8
months and T days. l.. O. Greene Of
the Standard, purchasing the subscrlp-
ton list, some type, etc. The Post
was a newsy paper, edited with abil-
ity, and presented an attractive me.
chanical appearance, under the charge
of Fl. H. Woodbury., job printer.
Probably all that Can be said over the
demise is, that its editorials were not
calculated right for this meridian"
and that its founder and editor made
mistake in launching his barque on
a sea that he had no practical knowl-
edge of. The great wonder to experts
was that he did not strand sooner.
"yhat is not thy trade make not thy
business" is a very good maxim.
Robert A. Perkins would make a
good paper if he had money enough,
and it would be patronized in some
sections of the Countrywide West for
instance. Mr. Perkins has written
sharp articles for the Post, but they
were not practical. He was always
butfeting the current. The field here
was fully occupied, yet he got up
much larger circulation than we had
any idea he would. Anybody can get
up circulation for paper, but where
the "tug of war comes is in 'collect-
ing the scrip" to oil the machinery.
The death of the Post will in no way
interfere with the job printing business
of our friend III. II. Woodbury.. He
will 90 right on keeping a good
house.
1t is, to say the least, a fair pre-
sumption that jurymen are human.
We gather the truthfulness of this by
referring to common place talk for the
last fifty years and more. But last
Sunday Dea. - of --, II juryman.
instead of going home remained in
town OF course he went to church
In the afternoon he pulled up at the
sold white" Thinking perhaps he
might be made better by change of
climate by attending afternoon service
somewhere else, he put in to the Meth
odist chapel, but the same young man
preached there nevertheless. He how
ever thought the minister of the after
noon far preferable to the one of the
morning. Strange it is our eyes de-
teive us SO otttimes.
FISHING ON SuNpAY.--The farmers
say that so many men and boys are
fishing around their meadows on the
Sabbath, this summer, that they think
the clergymen Of this village must be
somewhat remiss in their pulpit in
structions as to the scrptural method
of observing that sacred day.
- Mr., Norman Taylor tested his
speed on the fair ground track, to-day,
after being out Of practice some two
weeks, and made his two miles in ten
minutes and fifty seconds. His best
time is 1910. This is pretty good
time for man who has had no more
training than Mr.. Taylor He will
attend the races at Saratoga in July.
The following Resolutions were adopt
ed by the Ottauquechee Div, S. of t., on
the death of Miss Laura A. Markham
Whereas, Our ranks are again broken by
the death of Sister Laura A. Markham,
therefore be it resolved-that we members
and visitors of Ottauquechee Div. No. 7, S.
of T., would express our sense of the great
loss we have sustained in the removal from
among us of our sister, while still in the
freshness of youth, and that we tender our
heartfelt sympathy to the broken circle.
2nd That we her associates, while, deep
ly impressed with this dispensation, of our
all-wlse providence, would willingly bear
testimony to her purity of life, to her earn
estness and zeal in the cause of temperance,
her great patience in suffering and to her
noble Christian example which she has left
us.
Sd. That these resolutions be placed on
our records, copy sent to the family of
the deceased, and also presented for publ
cation in our local papers.
We always like to speak good
word for the young and deserving.