Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-07-21


Office Subscribers same as Mail Subscribers.
Woodstock.
Francis Clark, Esq and family
left town this week for a vacation at
the seaside.
Frank G. Hatch Philo) IS rusti-
eating at North Scituate, Mass. He
enjoys life, and makes friends wher
ever he goes
AS Ed Fay was driving a load
of hay to his stable, the other day,
his little boy and girl were on the
load, when both fell off, the boy
breaking his collarbone, the girl es-
Gaping injury aud calling it ''fun."
The boy is 50 far recovered as to be
out.
We publish III to,days paper a
list of advertisements from the we'll
known advertising agency of 5. Nj.
Pettengill & Co., Boston. The adj
verlisements are from leading business
firms In Boston End Philadelphia.
Look them over, and if you see any
thing you want you may rely on get
ting it all straight by ordering OF the
firm named in the advertisement.
That Philadelphia Childs is con.
siderable on epitaphs, but u well,
known character in this section extern
ported one forty years or more ago,
which, though often repeated by word
of mouth has never seen as vet the
compositors case. and which will, or
should at least, put Mr.. Childs to an
other energetic and spasmodic effort
We will say that all the author re-
ceived for his best endeavorS in this
line, was dinner of pork aud beans,
done in the old puritanic style, at the
hands of him whose virtues and vices
it undertook to pcrpetqate. 1t IS as
follows:
'IIere lies the body Of IIuggings Seth,
The vilest man that ever drew breath,
He lived like hog. and he died like brute,
And gone to he'll sure, without any dis
pute."
we are having beautiful weather
The nights are cool and the days
warm. The growing crops are look
ing nicely, and if frost holds off we
shall have a beautiful harvest.
The brotherhood of painters, and
a few invited guests in this village,
held picnic in Hewltt's grove Tues
day afternoon. They had music by
the Woodstock band, teasting, social
converse, wilticisms, and a gal,-day
generally Those things ought to be
INDUCED in more by the working
classes.
We find the following notice of
our fileno and correspondent Norman
Taylor in the Daily Saratogian of Ju-
ly 10th. 1t appears that he made bet
ter time than many Of the college
boys who won prizes
After the collegians races at Glenn
Mitchell yesterday were over, a Yer
monter from Woodstock, took the
course and ran three miles in 1914,
He says he is not a runner, but merely
a granger who had come down "to
see how the college boys looked and
dressed on the course" He won't
gamble on his prowess, but if any one
will hang up purse he will climb for
it.
George II. Day has bought Of the
old Hutchinson Estate lot of land at
the head of High Street aud is build
ing thereon a wood building three
stories high, 22x32, to be used as a
wood, paint, and blacksmith shop.
The Chapel (Uhiversalist has
just received thorough coat of paint
on the outside and some other repairs
which it was deserving of. 1t looks
bttter,-We nigh. with propriety
suggest that the Methodist house be
blested in the same way,--An effort
is now being made to paint the Epis-
copal church. Something already has
been accomplished in that line. The
members will be entitled to much
credit if they place the outside in a
condition to correspond to the inside
OF Their neat and tidy chapel.
On Saturday last, as Mr.. and
Mrs. Persons, and their daughter
Mrs. Jerome Taylor Of this village and
her little girl were riding in a two
seated carriage near the iron watering
trough above West Woodstock, Mr.
Persons touched up the horse, and the
rear seat on which the two women and
the little girl set, not being fastened
down, all three went over back onto
the harl road, injuring the women Sc
verely, and breaking the little girls
collar bone. The thing could not be