Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-01-28

Inere IS no OlneT way 10 40 1T
traders want customers they mus
advertise.
Best so cent molasses at Wood &
Gillingham's.
The holidays have been rather hard
on Thursdays this season, most of all
of them having follen on this day. The
next one, Candlemas, if it can be
called holiday, falls on Monday, Feb.
I'd, this year: The Romans were in
the habit of burning candles on this
day to the goddess Februa, the mother
of Mars and Pope Sergins, seeing it
wouldIbe useless to prohibit the practice
Of so long standing, turned it to Chris
tan account by enjoining similar Of
fering of can1les to the Virgin. The
candles were supposed to have the eff
feet of frightening the devil and all
evil spirits away from the persons who
carried them, or from the houses in
which they were placed. An order of
council in 1884 prohibited the cere-
mony in England. There is a tradi-
ton in most parts of Europe to the
effect that n fine c. portends severe
winter. In Scotland the prognostica-
ton is expressed in the following dis
itch:
at Candlemas Is fair and clear,
There II be twa winters in the year."
PENCIL MARKs.--Six inches of
"beautiful snow" this morning, and
the prospect is good for six inches
more before night.-Rev. Mr.. Brodie
and Rev. Mr.. Webb exchanged pull
pits last Sunday.-The Sons of Tenn
perance and Good Templars hold their
meeting in Mellish Hall for the present.
H. Il. Dennis is now confined to
the house with the measles this is little
hard on him.--The selectmen will hold
their annual meeting for settlement
with the town at the Town Hall, Feb.
I'd, at 10 o'clock. The firm of A. c.
Prior & Co., boot and shoe dealers,
is dissolved by mutual consent, Mr..
Dennis takes the store here and Mr..
Prior the enc at st. Johnsbury, which
he has been running for about two
years.-Several children are sick in
this vicinity with "roseola" (what-
ever that may beg and measels.-
Kimball r., son of DR.. j. S. Rich
mond, is Spending short vacation in
town; "Kim." is clerking in large
clothing house in Burlington, that
could not run without him his friends
and sold chums' were glad to see
him.--C. A. Fairbanks has moved
back into the hotel aud will have things
in running order again in frw days.
--Eugene Thomas is wrestling with
rheumatism. The thief who stole Mr..
Hassom's horse and sleigh at Gays.
vile, traded it off, and was arrested
in Montreal while attempting to dis
pose of the robes, is DOW boarding
with jailor Hewitt; he is hard char
acter and says that he has been in the
business since he was ten years cid.
and never met with any accident"
before, except when Texas cowboy
plOwed furrow in his forehead with
a "Smith & Wesson" shooting-ron.-
Union Meeting at the Congregational
Church Chapel next Friday evening;
all are invited; salvation is free
Mrs. Caroline NJ. Taft returned to
Fairfax Thursday. Mr.. Thomas
Fletcher has recovered from his under
the weather" attack. Moses Sher-
burn who has railroad job as bag
gage man in Worcester, Mass, and
who has q week off," called on us
Tuesday, on his way to the carnival
at Montreal, where he expects to be
as "wide" as any of them.-"Gov."
w. II. H. Bingham was in town last
week adjusting claims against the
Vt. Mutual, and made us pleasant
call the insured express themselves
well satisfied with his allowances"
and .courtesy.--Our friend, G.. o.
Carlisle, Esq, has our thanks for late
California papers, among them that
sterling democratic sheet, the San
Francisco Examiner. Mrs. Shurtleff,
spoken of last week, still lies in a
critical condition. Wilson Parker is
no better, and it is doubtful if he ever
will be.-"Dix" is still confined to his
his house. Carlos Mower who jammed
one of his fingers at the fire, is still
confined to the house 'nussin it.
Harold Dana who slipped on the ice at
the same time, breaking small bone in
his shoulder, is getting "whole" again.
Il. B. Marble calls on parties who
are owing him, to pay up.-Walter
Dearborn, Of St. Johns, N. B., is
spending a short time at his home
here.
1t is terribly distressing thing to
hear woman swear. She nearly al
ways runs out of breath before she can
finish good square burst of copper
bcttomed profanity.