Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-10-09
Notice change In II, II, Time Table

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A, II, Sanborn went into o, q
klmball's drug store, the other day,
aud ordered q mixture Of blue vitro
and tnrpentlne put up, Mr., X, put il
up and set the bottle down carefully
on tho counter TO mix, and told bis
clerk nor to shake it az II would OK
plodc, and stepped out a minute
Pretty soon Sanborn came 10, took up
the bottle, shook IL, aud in turn the
bottle shook him, the contents str,k.
ing the ceiling, and sprinklug Mr..
kimballs goods In q manner not
pleasing at all. Mr. Kimball is out
about S25 by the "shako,"
5, W, Raymond, Esq, leading
citizen and democrat Of Ottawa, ILL.,,
Is spending few weeks in town lcok.
Jug over scenes OF his early days, He
left here AZ years ago, but has made
occasional visits to the place since.
lie was born IN the "old well house."
so called, in front Of Wooddwar's fac
tory, which has undergone little or no
change in all this time.
The Rutland Leader, which has
been published at Brandon for two
years, by Henry Clark, is to DO
removed to Rutland and an evening
daily started in connection with it.
Mr., Clark is 10 be the editor of the
new daily.
Occasionally is seen on the streets a
rickely vslocipede, propelled by a
pai: of hard worked legs.
1t is not every church that has a
Tony Pastor.
We are having the first dry spell of
the season, and wells and cistcrns are
quite low. Rain, and u good deal Of
it, is much needed.
The third party is rapidly sinking
into an irredeemable nonentity in this
state.
Nearly all our state exchanges have
locals about the second crop of ripe
raspberries. Charley Randall brought
us some nice ones the other day, and
says he found several ripe strawberries.
on which we "call" our brethren of
the press.
The forests are now in autumnal
glory, and the lovers Of nature delight
to stroll in them.
a crate of pears was received at
our mani pm the other day which
greatly surprised our folks, and they
had suspicious of our soundness of
mind in ordering pears these "hard
times" On our arrival home it sur.
prised US also. We examined the
box, found the directions all right,
but the cabalistic letters at the bottom,
"From B. B. s. was as great a mys.
terry to us as certain things were to
Nicodemus OF old, and we left it
feeling that there was some good man
in the world of whom we had no
knowledge of then. AT night it
crept through our head that it came
from Burlington, and that "B. 3. S."
was none other than the leader of our
spartan band of democrats in the Ver-
mont legislature. Many thanks. May
you always be blest in your basket
and your store.
We took trip into the rural dis
tricts last week, and hamlet English
Mills, thriving village three miles
from here. The place is growing {
there is a good grist and saw mill
here and grocery. Isaac Newton has
put up handsome carriage shop {
III which he manufactures bis famous
carriages and sleighs one or two
new houses have been put up here
lately; john Gilman has painted his :,
house and otherwise beautified it.
They have the handsomest stone .
school house in the state, and they
may well be proud of it. From here =
we took a trip westward over the hill y
"A delightful road at this season of !
the year-and visited j. e. McKen.
zie's apple orchard, which is the finest :
ia the state of Vermont. The guam -
tlty and superior quality Of the apples !,
in this orchard is sight to behold. =
This is life work Of Mr.. Mckenzie, r
and We think he has succeeded admir-. :
ably. We did not come away with T
an empty stomach and hand. Many "
hanks.
The weather the past week has r
been '.just splendid. October is
passing,-a month of falling leaves, .
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