Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1882-12-27
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We hung up our shirt and u WAS ~
full as tick IN the morning with 9TH
or shirts aud things, A shirt IL the
thing TO hang uP-lust tic u string
around the tail aud II Is all right,
We sci q trap for sly old republl'
can rat that comes up from the Stand
ard Office aud preys on our things but
a mouse, u
owee .leek'It cow'rln lim'rou' beaslle,"
got into Il, aud We found him dead rs
Julius Caesar the next mOrning, and
the old rat l. still at liberty, The poor
"beastIe" was frightened 10 DEATH
probably
The Boston Gazette claims that II
can pick out lovely minded woman
by "thc carriers she wears" This
must be u big help to man IN every
day life, In judging of ladies he meets
The manufacturer who can produce
boots aud shoes which will last the
average small boy or girl more than a
month or six weeks, has fortune to
make. According TO most peoples
experience, the child's shoe Is made Of
the poorest stock when II should be OF
the very best,
The second Of tho series of dances,
by the Woodstock Association will DO
hell In Fairbanks Hall, Friday eve
ming next. These are top lott dances,
aud are well pOlronizcd by the youths
and beauties ofthis sccti.n,
Woman to tho front! Mrs, Ira
Mower raised II pig that she had
slaughtered the other day that weighed
when dressed 400 pounds. |, was
born the last of March. Boys, how is
that for pigI
Joel Eaton has II fur cap (oitcr)
that he wears this winter, that looks
like new one, aud is in style.
that he bough, in Worcester, Mass,
thirty years ago, for which he paid
eight dollars. lie thinks it was eight
dollars well invested.
We learn that George Bradley, our
efficient Job tcamster, intends moving
out of town because Henry ). Hutch
inson, Esq, has forbid his speaking TO
him on the street. George has hosts
Of friends who will be sorry to learn
this. Well, George is tender-hear'ed
and can't stand grief like some OF us.
We told him not to mind it, but he
says, like the Hcath"n Ch'nee' u
must CO."
PENCIL MARKs.-Did your "orign-
al package hold out over Christmas
1t is over-did your dinner make you
sick ?-Now for New Year's.-lIave
you made any resolves for the coming
year yct?-Villagc Meeting next Mon
day evening at o'clock.-Nicc win
ter weathcr-warm, and the slcighing
is good. Pat. Riley died suddenly Of
heart disease. Our merchants had q
large Christmas trade. Railroad Meet
ing at the Town Hall, January 10th,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Brewster, land
mark of the place, and disciple OF
Vulcan, died at his residence on High
street, Monday, aged Il years.-The
display of Christmas goods by our
merchants vas very fine. Everybody
keeps them now-a-days-cvcn the meat
market folks made quite display in
their linc-turkeys, geese, ofc., this
year. For many years j. II. Muir
cock had the entire patronage of Santa
Claus in this branch of trade. Patrick
Rley's remains were taken to Rutland
Tuesday for burial.-Heap CT scarlet
fever laying around loose. Ruel Buck
man, Of North Bridgewater, lost two
children the past week, and Alba
Jilson's family, of South Pomfret, are
in a bad way. Scarlet fever has car
ried off two children out of a family
of ten, recently, and several Others are
very sick, also Mrs. ellison. The fam
lily are very poor, but kind neighbors
are doing all they can to alleviate them
in their sore distress. DRY wood is
plenty and cheap-S4 gets the best
now.-Ain't you glad it don't come
twice year-we mean Christmas
The jewellers on the "lava beds
south, spent quiet Christmas.-li
you have friend in "furrin parts u
you can send him no more suitable and
interesting present than weekly issue
of the AGE for 18S3.-Leander Bum
blebee, formerly of this town, who wa:
arrested last week, on suspicion o.
breaking into Marsh Harlow's hotel
in Cornish, just across the river from
Windsor, has been acquitted by Judge
Clark of Claremont, N. H.
See prospectus of the Bosto" las'
in another column. The Post is thu
oldest, ablest and most reliable demo
cratic paper in the country, and tn
newsiest in the city Of beans. Th