Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1886-12-29


James Harvey.
&g~ Persons calling for the above
letters will please say, "Advertised."
WIN. d. MCMAsTER, P. M.
A Temperance Reading will be
given in the School-house at West
Woodstock, Thursday eve Dec. 3Oth,
at Z o'clock. A general invitation is
given.
Posters will soon be out for a Ball,
to be given by the Star Base Ball
Club, at the Town Hall, Friday eve,
Feb. A, to which a general invitation
will be extended. The boys desire to
get some uniforms for the coming sea-
son, and take this way to get money.
Full particulars will be given on post
crs.
PENCIL MARKs.-Did you get any
thing IN your stocking Mice winter
weather. will French and wife of
Montpelier visited in town Christmas.
What has become of that "grcat
moral engine" The Znndmarh !?
we have not had copy for several
weeks. Seth Caswell Of Barnard gets
ten years in Windsor for popping off
his old woman with an old shotgun,
and Gertie Scripture goes down for
three years for stealing money from
lady boarder at the Eagle last sum-
mer.-The sick folks are about the
same; "Carl" is convalescing rapidly
and unless he has another attack and
rigidity of the muscles should set in,
he is in fair way to get WE'LL
1t cannot be that "to the pure all things
are pure" for almost everything is
adulterated nowadays. NJ. Prem
tiss, formerly typo i'll Woodbury. &
Co.'s office, now of Rutland, was visit
ing his "bcst girl here last week;
that story of his marriage some time
ago was "bogus,' it was cousin Of
his by the same name that committed
the deed.-Post Office box-rent will be
due Jan. LIST; ten days is time allowed
by government to pay in, if not paid
within that time, the box is forfeited.
Hon. Prosper Merrill started for
Florida Saturday, where he will spend
the remainder of the winter; we hope
to see him back IN vigorous health in
the spring.-Dr. Sherwin will remain
in town not only during the winter but
permanently.-Thc good little boy is
getting "otf his base the holidays
are most over.-Nantippe was a scold !;
don't initiate her. Horton, whose
wife was killed in runaway accident
on "long hill," gets a verdict for $1,000
against the town for insutliciency of
the highway.-A New Years Call
ssPlease Remit. Phil. Mower was
down from Montpelier and spent
Christmas with Carl. just notice
how nice your best girl will be from
now till after New ears.-Two drug
gists and hotel proprietor made pill
grimage up here from Windsor last
week and settled some "allegations,' .
as Lem. Spooner would say, charged
by the State, by paying 500 each.-
Youth is best preserved by cheerful
temper.-The same good resolutions
made last January will do for next
January.-Fred B. Dutton has gone
aud done it; success to 'em.
That we have fanatics and fools
among us to-day, as the people of Sa,
lem did in the dark ages of alleged
witchcraft, cannot be denied. This
was plainly shown, one day last week,
when some thirty-fve witnesses were
summoned to appear to-day to tell
what they know about landlord Fair
banks selling rum, some two years
ago. There is not one in the crowd,
that we know of, that ever made bad
use of rum, and Let one in five that
could tell whiskey, except by the color,
from gin caught under juniper bush
in shower. If the man who en-
tered the complaint thinks he is aiding
the cause of temperance by such med
ding, he shows far more blind yea
than knowledge in the cause Of reform
and temperance, and if he did it fol
revenge, he is the biggest idiot in town,
If the boys find him out, and they
will, he had better be in Danta's In.
ferno, with his back broke, than in
Woodstock. This will make "sop''
for those barnacles-petty officials
who get their living in this way, and
set back the cause of temperance and
morals. What fools mortals are
There is to be a Missionary Conven.
ton at the M. Il. Church here, Jan.
uary II and 10. Several speakers
will be present, among whom we no
tice, Revs. A. II. Webb, r. L. Bruce
H. A. Spencer, j. F. Brodie, E. E.
Reynolds, o. w. Barrows, W. r.
Davenport and Chaplain McCabe,
whom everybody will be pleased tc
hear. Collection for missions will be
taken at the close Of the service.