Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-04
Tickets will be en- sale at Burdette's
Monday morning for the Minstrel show
at Town Hall same evening.
MARCH.

When boisterous wiads are schrccching
Through each avenue and street,
When rheumatism's reaching
From your shoulders 10 your feet
When you cough, and shake. fnd sneezc,
And get mad, and swear and curse,
As that everlasting wheeze
Keeps growing worse and worse,
When your shit and cuffs and collar
Will not hold bit OF starch,
You eau bet your bottom dollar
IT'S the festive month of March.
-[Boston Post.
The death rate from freezing in the
rural districts this winter has not been
so great a might be expected, judging
from the number that turned out last
Tuesday pell nell for election. The
boys had a good time, and ballot was
demanded for nearly every officer,
consequently there is quite a change in
the town dads. as will be seen from the
following list elected: Moderator, Nor
man Paul; clerk, Geo. w. Paul
selectmen, l. c Kendall, William c
Vaughan, Norman Paul; treasurer,
f C Southgate listers, II V French,
H II Daniels, L II Atwood; overseer,
II F Sherwin; grand juror, II V
French auditors, Z r Jennings, H B
Reed, Norman Paul street commits
sioners, B II Pinncy, II Fullerton, S
S Winslcw sup't of schools, Charles
Fl Darling. Tax voted l15 cents, to
pay both state tax and town expenses.
The home talent MINISTRIES gave an
excellent show at the town hall Friday
evening, to II crowded house. For
numbers, exquisite dress, musical tai
ent, original, sharp, and clean jokes
with good elocuton by end men and
director, variety of farces, and athlete
feats, was never equallcd in this vii
lage. We do not say this to flattcr
the boys and get them out into the
country, only to have them foot 1t
back, we say it because it is cold
fact. By request they will repeat it
again next Monday evening with an
entire change of programme-or nearly
so. Go and hear and see them.
The Good Templars will hold a tes-
tival and masquerade at the Town
Hall Friday evening, March 9th. 1t
will be a variety entertainment, con-
sisting of farces, plays, etc., with 200
maskers in line. We have seen some
of the masks, and the expression of
countenance of some of them is only
equaled by an old topper after p ltting a
charge of clear "Alki' into hm-but
then man dou't very often do that
unless he is FASTENED to it.
PENCIL MARKs.-March weather.
blows, tears and smiles. Inauguration
Day to-day; it is not legal holiday,
but we will do all we can to make one.
Home Minstrels at the Town Hall,
Monday evening next by request
The Catholics will hold their annual
40 hours devotion ut their Church next
week, commencing Tuesday morning.
Antoine Pecor has three children
down with scarlet fever.-We have
raised the Stars and Stripes over our
office this morning, in honor of the
new President, Grover Cleveland -
"Dix" got run away with lately; no
complaint against the horse.-C. II.
Darling was elected school superintend-
ent over w. H. Sanderson, and South
Woodstock is happy. makes boy
mad to observe that many people who
write books are so ignorant they spell
bumble-bee with an h.-The town
systems of schools got badly left in
town meeting, only 20 votes in favor
of it, with PAL against.-A visitor
asked citizen the other day-"What
is going on here anyway? "Rent and
and 3-10th interest,"" was the laconic
reply.--A slight thaw Sunday, "clean
shirt day" will come around again.
We have edited aid published the
AGE "a years and this is the first issue
under democratic administration
L uTee Olu lTlcuuS lllcI III Il ~. OldCh D
grocery this morning whose united
ages amounted to 258 years-Josiah
Josselyn, Esq, of Bridgewater, in his
Seth year; Hon. John Porter Of Hart
ford, in his 87th, and Joseph Kennedy
of Woodstock, in his 85th, and all three
are active aud bright as gold dollars.
Hon. G. 2. Marsh and wife have
gone to Boston to spend the remainder
of the winter. Senator Sanford H.
Potter OF w. II. D., and Col. Rob.
McIndoe Of Windsor, made us pleas
ant visit one day recently; the sen
ator is one of the "war horses" of
racy.--Spencer Howe. ofSharon,
q veteran democrat, made us a short
visit Thursday.-It looks now as if
the Democrats would hold 'ssociable"
this evening at their late Headquarters,