Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1882-03-29
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WoOdstOek, $50 ab
80 PORTER, GuPt,
Advertising Is tho pole that knocks
tho perslmmons,
Miss Jeanette G hid Of Bethel h Wis
iling friends here.
.Wm. Billings, "the old stage man."
was stricken down IN u III one day last
week, aud It was doubtful for hours
which world he would have for his res-
idence. The next day hc rallied, Is
quite comfortable, aud will bc out Ia u
short time.
Philo Hatch slipped aud fell on tho
leo the other day, injuring him quite
severely, so much so that he has been
confined to his bed most Of the time
since.
The Capt. Gilman Henry place was
bid of at Auction the other day by Mr.
Ed. Fay Of Pomirct for $4,000, and
the lots on the lower side OF the road,
not connected with the farm, were bid
of by Chas. NJ. Perry.
George Day, Jr., lost valuable
horse Monday. II turned one OF its
limbs under in some way in front of
Geo. Frcnch's livery stable aud broke
il. II had to be killed.
The Schools will commence April
lOth--owing to the bad "going;' one
more week is added to the vacation.
The School-NIcctiag Tuesday evening
was harmonious, and everything passed
off well. Moderator, l.. q. Greene ;
Treasurer, 7. o. Scavcr; Collector,
VIM. r. Hewitt. The old Committee
would not stand II reelection. DR..
Richmond, the Chairman, said he had
served six years, and he thought that
was long enough. Finally n committee
was appointed to report n committee,
at an adjourned meeting next Monday
eve. A tax of 80 cents was voted.
The second number of 1.-THE Land
mark" is out. We have looked over
the paper for religious items from the
pen of the editor, but we don't find
them. A religious paper onght to
have them. Some people think they
are pious when they are only bilious,
and maybe that's what's the matter
with brother Earle.
It's very popular with people, cspeci-
ally small-minded ones, to indulge in
considerable cheap wit about the de-
fects of newspapers, which of course
they have, from the great, in
Auential, wealthy city daily to the
small; struggling country weekly. We
have seen people throw down the large
Boston dailics with disgust, saying there
was nothing in them, when they were
crowded with reading matter by the
square yard, set in fine type at that;
hut it was because the subjects did not
interest them, or else their pet schemes
were not sufficiently pulled up. Peo-
pie talk about the trivial items found in
country papers, and the AGE is no cx-
ception, but oftcntimes there is nothing
else to publish. The strong point of a
country weekly is local news; but many
people expect more novels than in a
story paper, more telegraphic news
than in metropolitan daily, more
editorials than in u monthly review,
more gossip than in a sewing circle,
and more facts than in an unabridged
dictionary or a fifty dollar encyclopaedia.
However, when person sees his name
in print, no matter how small the item,
it suddenly becomes quite important
that is, both item and newspaper,
PENCIL MARKs.-IIas your wife
prepared your Spring Btters yet? Geo.
Warren's remains were brought here for
burial last week-he died in the Insane
Asylum at Brattleboro; Harvey Dut-
ton has bought the General Lyman
Mower house and lot in rear of the M.
E. Church, paying $1,000 for the same,
mot Sl4OO as the Standard had n.y. /;
the last Sociable of the season will be
given at the Congregational Chapel
tomorrow evening; March has been
remarkable in not giving us any sleigh
ing-not over six inches of snow has
fallen during the nonth; Judge Bar
rett and family expect to leave for
their new home in Rutland this week;
John Clapp had shock of paralysis
one day last week; March has given
us plenty of mud, pretty cold weather,
and the toughest kind of going"