Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-05-18
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Dswev's Mills, l,oe Xxx
Queehss, Ar, AIOoL' sve s'se
Taftsyilie, pII apt
Woodstock, p'N $50
Ia, PoRTsR .aupt
Plenty of"wet" now, but Il Is cold'
and "garden truck, don't flourish
Summer has come, sure ExileS
from Italy, harplsIs aud organ grinders
put In au appearance Saturday
j. II. Jones has purchased the "ited
Front" cellar Of the Savings Hank
folks, aud Is now pushing business on
his new Block, This gives him the
whole Of the "burnt district" Mr.,
Lewis Pratt Il experimenting the
work.
Walter Brown, long time foreman IN
the STANDARD office, who has suffered
much lately from ganulaiion of one OF
his eyc.lids, left town TueSduy for
Burlington, for medical treatment
Joe Bean, Jr. has gone TO Rutland
10 work. Not in the Workhonse,
however. lie says there are more
"amusements" over there than on
South Street,
Bio FIRE AT ENGLisu's MiLLs.-
The Carriage Shop owned by Isaac
Newton, and the Blacksmith Shop
owned by Albert Hcalcy were entirely
consumed by fire Tuesday night. The
fire was discovered about II o'clock,
aud the fire had got 80 much the start,
and with little or no facilities for stay
Ing il, nothing was saved, The light
was seen by folks in this village. Mr..
Newton did not have much stock in
his building us he had moved his works
to this village Il few weeks ago. lie
had u small insurance on the building
-si00-wc learn, and his loss must
be considerable. Mr.. llcalcy had
$500 on building and $50 on stock
Both were insured in the Windsor Co.
Mutual.
The next meeting of Quechee Valley
Pomona Grange No. 0, will be held at
Reading, June 2nd, 1891, at 10 o'clock
A. NJ, in the Hall occupied by Read
ing Grange. Subject-Silos and En-
silage, with description of and arg''-
mcnis for and against.
Dcnman Thompson will appear in
the great play of Joshua Whitcomb, at
Lebanon, n. H., on the evening of
May oath. A special train will be
run over the Woodstock and Northern
n, III. railroads for the accommodation
of those wishing to attend. For tickets
and further particulars apply early at
Townsends Bookstore.
The ID is to pay in the Republic
can party-all over the Tspoils'-
Senators Conkling and Plat Of New
York have resigned, but it is thought
the Legislature will re-elect them.-
Probably Conkling ''polled" the men,
bers before he resi- gned. If the leaders
in both wings of the Republican party
would resign, and stay resigned, it
would be a great blessing.
Those parties up to Bridgewater who
have got religion lately, and have ow-
ed us for this paper long time had bet
ter pay up. Maybe they think they
are pious when they are only bilious
Anyway, we want them to pay.
ADVERTISEMENTS ARE NEws.-The |
Albany Press says: Good, fresh ad-
yertisements are not the least inter-
esting and valuable portion of news
paper. We have been told that a
prominent New York journalist hoped
to see the day when the profits ON the
circulation of his paper would be so
large that he could dispense with adj
vertising altogether. We think he is
mistaken in his opinion of advertising
and newspapers. Advertisements are
news. They tell the readers what they
want to know-where goods can be
bought; what they are sold for; who
has houses to rent or sell who wishes
to purchase real estate; where employ
mcnt and labor can be obtained and
thousand other things that they want to
know. 1t is an error to suppose that
only the editors and reporters supply
news worth reading. The skillful adj
vertiser furnishes good share IOf it,
and if there are any readers who fail to