Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1886-06-30


j. McMancy,
IL. b, Pitkin,
j. b, Parker,
Madam j, Story,
Mr.. Gargeil James.
Skgr- Persons calling for the above
letters will please say, "Advertised."
VIM. y. McMAsTER. p. NJ.
The boys here will celebrate on
Monday. As our colored brother said,
"Hurrah for the 4th on the 9TH"
PENCIL MARKs.-A week of wet
weather, with high wind and scorch-
ing sun Monday and Tuesday that
dried up the earth as clean as Sal
walton Army contribution boX.-lf
you assist fellow mortal in trouble,
You are giving the devil a punch
Ed. Ordwsy went fishing to Plymouth
Pond the other day and caught black
bass that measured fourteen inches
and weighed nearly two pounds
The ''Duke is getting better, and
will be able to ''lathcr and shave"
again in few days.-Eugene Thomas
is down with typhoid pneumonia
Thomas Pratt fell down in fit in the
street yesterday; Charles Dean got him
to his home near the factory where
he lives alone; Rev. +. w. Smith
watched with him last night and he is
little more comfortable this morning.
The trouble with these June days is
that they are so rare that they are raw,
Lut like the snowflake in the river,
they are gone for this year, or will be
with to-day.-F. w. Wilder has re.
turned from his wedding trip and set
tied down to business again.-Henry
Anderson of New York City, an old
time Woodstock, boy was in town visit
ing his sisters, and his cousins and his
aunts, last week.--John B. Parker,
formerly of this town, has got the
"sack" from his government clerk
ship in Washington; every Democrat
who knows Johns political record,
will be pleased to learn this fact
Notice an advertisement of a house for
sale at English Mils.-To think you
can do another's task better than an
other is'human. have worked up
Bro. Greene to paper the front room
of the post-ofiice f. B. Willis is do
ing the work this morning; no bill
posting allowed after this date.-Rev.
B. M. Tillotson will preach at South
Woodstock next Sunday afternoon
Mrs. Elton Smith, two children, two
servants, and her sister, of Savannah,
Ca, are at Mrs. L. V. Smiths; Mr..
Smith will join them later.-Prof. I.
W. ID. Worthen OF Dartmouth, is visit
ing in town. Miss Carrie Sumner is
at Lake George, n. Y.-James H.
Murdoch says B. +. Standish has the
best garden in town; this is hard on
Jim and Dave. MANY men, of many
minds ; every one has his own fashion.
John Dearborn and wife are visiting
their son at St. John. N. B.-Mrs.
Elizabeth C. Woodward is in Frank
lin, Mass, called there by the illness
of her BROTHER n-law, Charles j. Mac.
Kenzie.--James Ii. Chapman is in
town.-Henry Gushing was at the
"Cottage" over Sunday; he returned
to Bethel Tuesday Mrs. B. +. Mack
returned from her visit to New Hamp-
shire last Saturday.-Chancellor Taft
will be in Woodstock and hear cases
On the chancery docket July 9Th. -
1t matters much whether you are really
good, or only wish to appear so.-
Notice change in the running time of
he Woodstock r.. R.-Have you
finished haying! we have, but our hoe
ing hangs like u diseased molar tooth,
and we have set Il day to kill the man
who promised to do it, aud didn't. -
What is violent is not durable.
Brother Gardner of the Lime-Kiln
Club says: "Dat one of the great
causes of so much unhappiness in dis
world arises from de fack dat we ex-
pect too much. We start to build a
twenty-dollar woodshed, an cxpeck de
hull kentry to wait fur rain till de las
shingle am on. If we pay cash for
Goldfish we cxpeck de grocer to trust us
fur saleratus. We lend our neighbor
hunk o butter, an expeck de use of his
cOtfee-mill all winter. We dram two
cents into de palm of q beggar, an fur
de mex hours we feel dat in kase of
sickness, de public am gwine to rush in
wild roat chestnuts and mock-turtle
soup. / tell ye, my frens, we doan't
make de needful 'lowance fur de weak
ness o human natur'. We am poo
lot O critters when ye cum to bile de
subjick down" That's so,