Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-11-16

We want q load Of wood, Don
break up crows nest for It,
The Burlingtonians talk Of organic
Ing u permanent Fair In that city
Much matter prepared for this issue
Is crowded out, owing to our limited
space. We viii try aud remedy THU
IN soon as We can.
Hon. Frederick Billings leil town to-
day for New York. Ills family 90 the
last of the week to take up their winter
quarters there. We wish them
happy season there, and n safe return
to us in the spring.
The man who itchcd for office was
elected by scratching
George Marble will open n Dancing
School in Fairbanks Hall next Friday
evening. George says he wants each
boy to bring his "calico" on his arm.
Now that Brother Greene has sue
c,eded in restraining Postmaster MUIR
dock from moving the post-oilice from
his building, he ought to put it in
tcnantablc shape, that is, to paint
and whitcwash it u little, and fix the
steps so it wont be necessary for the
patrons of the Office to take out accident
policies.
An Housekccpcr's Guild, or Bureau
of Chinese immigration, has been
established here. This is rough on
the "hcathcn.'
Charming Williams, of the firm OF
Hewitt & Williams, Quechee, was in
town Monday. He reports business
lively down that way.
Snow squalls are frequent. Satur-
day morning it struck in to snow as ii
it meant to do u days work, but it
held up early in the forenoon and be-
fore night what fell was all gone
Monday We had another, and the
remnants of it linger on the hill
sides. Yet the air is quite mild for
the season.
As an illustration Of the absurdities
of the fashions, it may be stated that a
Woodstock lady has worn hat all
summer with the wrong side in front,
without detecting the error.
Hon. Frederick Billings has not only
improved very much the Ovid Thomp-
son place, near the village, by building
new houses and barns, new fences and
sidewalks, since his purchase, but has
lately made another great Improvement.
That open space at the corners, where
the three roads come in, has hitherto
been a great annoyance on account OF
the quantity of water settling in there
in the spring when the winter breaks
up. The flood there has been very
unpleasant and sometimes almost i'm
passible. Recently Mr.. Billings has
had several culverts or drains, large
and deep, with plank bottoms, built so
thoroughly that the water will all pass
off readily when the snow and ice
melt, and the roads be dry as in any
other part of the town. Hitherto the
pond of water there, though not so
large as Lake Superior, has been fully
as wet. The vacant space, between
the Agricultural Fair Grounds and the
Ovid Thompson homestead, has been
converted into Park with stone posts
all around to which are fastened three
rows of iron chains. This will be a
very ornamental little Park when the
trees, and shrubbery, and flowers are
started up. This will not be so large
a Park or so celebrated as the Wood
stock Park in England, near Blenheim,
the palace of the Duke of Marlborough,
and containing Rosamond's Tower,
and noted in history and Walter SCOTS
writings for the loves of King Henry
and the fair Rosamond, but will be a
beautiful place for the damsels and gay
Lotharios of the suburban districts to
promenade to and fro in, and we know
nothing against the probability of its
being unique trysting-place, when
the skies are propitious, for the inter-
change of sentimental emotions between
congenial spirits, and, peradventure,
even of the tallest kind of love-making
in rosy bowers. Three cheers for the
new Woodstock Park, and its origina-
tor, who seems to have the quality at
tributed by the Roman poet to some
one-"whatever he touches, he