Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-08-12
CncaIled for Letters.

called for in the Post.oflce at Woodstock
Vermont, Aug. u, 1885:
Mrs Mary Rogers.
DS Barrows.
William Rising.
Cephas Manning.
ID X Martin.
W Persons calling for the above
letters will please say, advertised"
WIN. D. MCMAsTER, P. M.
Hon. Frederick Billings is going tc
overhaul his house aud raise it another
story, making it three stories high,
commencing work, we under.
stand, next month.
BOYS PHOTOGRAPH,
A boy will eat and boy will drink,
And:a boy will play all day;
But boy won't work, and Il boy won't think
Because he amt built that way.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hopekirk who have
been summering at j. L. Kings, are
now at Cape Porpoise, Me-, where
they will iremain till the commence
ment of Mrs. HIS Boston series of
recitals in the fall.
A ride 10 Barnard and q basket pic.
mic at the head of Silver Lake, has
been proposed for the benefit of the
children of the M. Il. Sunday school ,
on Tuesda$. Aug. IS. All who are
not provided with means of conveyance
will please notify c. w. Sayward, or
the Supe- intenacnt during the present
week.
The Woodstock base ball club did
well Thursday. In their contest with the
Hanovers the score stood, Woodstocks
Q, Hanovers 10. This is glory enough,
when we consider that the boys from
around the classic walls of old Dart
mouth are "vets" in this branch of
athletic sports.
Hon. Frederick Billings, O. p.
Chandler, f. N. Billings, Mrs. G. W.
Allen, (no use to name all of them, Is
persons constituted the partly went up
to Sherburne, one day last week, and
had trout dinner with that genial
soul, jerome Taylor, who succeeded
Col. Markham in the hotel at that
place. --
Saturday last, General Grants funer-
al day, was generally observed in this
section. Stores and offices were closed
and business generally suspended in
the afternoon. Memorial services were
held in the Cong'l church at 2 clock,
which consisted of singing by the
choir, prayer by Rev. f. W. Smith,
Of the Episcopal church, address by
Col. T. o. Seaver, and the pastor,
Rev. JAS. F. Brodie, repeated SER
mon preached the Sunday before, The
exercises closed with singing by the
choir. The house was crowded. Eff
ty of the G. A. r. boys, of George c.
Randall Post, No. 80, were present in
a body. The church was handsomely
and extensively draped.
On going to our office one morning
last week, we met little Miss of six
summers, bright and good looking, to
whom we bid "good morning" She
stopped, gave pretty smile, and look
ing up said, "Do you know my
tather"' We assured her that we
did, "Well," said she, IL have the
cunningest little brother over at my
house you ever saw. He came last
night while / was over at grandpa's.
You ought to see him. am going
over to grandpa's to tell 'em" We
asked her if he came by express, and
she thought he did.
There was some very fine organ
playing after service last Sunday even
ing at the Church of the Advent, by
Mr.. Clarence Eddy, organist of the
First Presbyterian church in Chicago.
The choir at this church, under Mr..
Whitney's direction, is an admirable
one, and the service is given with great
perfectness in every part. The labors
Of the organist and choir master (for
Mr.. Whitney is both), are very arlu-
GUS, not only in training the large
number of boys, but in the duties of
his office generally, hut they are amply
repaid by the fine results achieved
Boston Sat Eve. Gazette.
Mr.. Eddy, formerly of Montpelier,
and Mr.. Whitney, formerly of Wood
stock and Burlington, are the two vice
presidents and two of the organ exam
liners of the American college of musi-
|cians, recently organized, and Mr..
Whitney is chairman of the executive
committee of the Music Teachers Ma
ional Association Burlington Free
Press.
Charles +. Woodruff and wife were
Jailed to Amsden Monday by the an
louncement of the death of Mrs. c..
Amsden, mother of Mrs. Woodruff,
which occurred in a Kansas town,
whittier she went q few weeks ago to
isit her parents. She was an estim-
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