Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-03-28
SPIRIT OF THE AGE.
Woodstock. w.t., March 20, 1888.
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Single copies of the AGE Tor sale a
the Post Office.
Rev. L. S. Crosley will preach il
South Woodstock next Sunday at two
O'Clock p. m.
The AGE will fall into the hands O
many this week who are not regular
subscribers. We would suggest tc
to them THAT now is a good time tc
begin.
All kinds of weather the past week
Last week the Thermometer was below
zero most of the time; Friday morn
ing it registered II below. This week
rain, snow, and sucshine alternate. -
No sugar weather yet.
Fast Day, Friday, April 9th, Eat
sparingly, attend church, pray abund-
antly, think of all the wickedness you
have done, and resolve to live bet
ter life in the future. There is more
food for reflection in this hurrygraph
than there is in some sermons.
The robin has come Several of
our citizens saw him Friday standing
leg deep in snow on the street, ap-
prently wondering if May weather, and
JIne's leaves, and July's strawber-
ries were really coming. 1t re-
quired all robins faith to believe it.
Capt. Barnes wanted to know if he
had an ulster on; he thought no SEN
sible robin would venture into this
town, just now, without one.
We clipped from some paper last
week, and copied it, the death of
Sayles Hoisington's wife at Rochester,
March 10th. On looking over our
files we see another notice of the death
of Sayles Hoisington's wife, bearing
date January 9th. How is this? Is
Savles a Mormon?
PENCIL MARKs.-We havnt those
mules yet. We are waiting anxlously
for Matilda's dream to come to pass
Rev. A. j. Hough's poem in another
part OF this paper-you can't miss it.
Mrs. Fred NJ. Whitcomb, of Bos-
ton, is visiting her grandfather, Mr..
Hugh P. owe.-Superintendent w.
Fl. Sanderson, thinks our school houses
need little attention in the way of
paint and whitewash, and we have the
same opinion.--Clifton Richmond has
bought the S. B. Markham farm in the
ledge of Pomfret," near the Eben
Bridge place, for $500. 1t is a good
farm.-Seth Winslow has bought the
Mitchell house, spoken of last week,
paying $1,000 for the same. Chester
Royce moves from the VIM. Boyce
house to his brother Harvey's, and
Horace Dennis moves in where he
moves out.-When spring puts on her
dress, let us hope that she will have no
pull-back.-1f a man bolts down his
food he ought to be able to keep it on
his stomach. -Spring moving is now
in order. Avoid sudden changes of
clothing in the spring. Go slow and
you will live longer.-When boys car
ry bottles and tumblers in their pockets
and make walking bars of themselves,
and nymphs of the walk carry revol-
vers and shake their fists in an officers
face and tells him to "help himself if
he cam" the moral atmosphere of the
place is not very clear.-The season of
carpet beating, of women's :heads tied
up in towels and handkerchiefs, of
cross looks and cold dinners is about to
begin.-Murty Pecor is fixing up his
house that he recently purchased en-
South street.-Joe Bean, Jr., has
moved into the house where Mrs. En-
MS moved out, on the corner of South
and Cross streets.-Nothing will draw
a crowd quicker than dog fight Or a
runaway horse in the street.-Ed.
Shallies has gone to work for Hon.
Prosper Merrill. Charles Switzer,
who has been in Mr.. Merrill's employ
tor some time, goes to his father-in-
laws, Mr.. Geo. ID. Raymond, in Pom
fret, to carry on the farm.-Fred Cox,
a Woodstock boy, has leased hotel at
Brandon, Vt.
The grocer who has got his last
years maple sugar all reboiled does't
dare to trot it out, the seasons so
backward.
After four days trial in the Wash
ington county court, in the case of S.
F. Gibbs and wife VS.. Rev. II. w.
Worthen, Methodist preacher,
charged with the attempted seduction
of the female plaintiff at Mortified in
1881, the jury, who were out SO
hours, disagreed. They stood s to 4
for the defendant.
Mr.. D. f. More, acting state secre-
tary of the Vermont Young Mems
Christian Association, is visiting our
place in the interest of that organizes
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