Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1886-05-26
Quechee.

Monday.
Quechee.
Our merchants had the first straw
berries Of the season for sale on the
10Th inst.
Friend McMaster: Our Quechet
boys are all very innocent, indeed the
quintessencc of honor in violating the
bird law. Why, bless their dear souls
they only obtain eggs from deserted
nests and birds ofprey.
Frank Shattuck, of this section on
the Woodstock II. r., has three help
mates and is busy putting in new ties.
A slight frost on the 18th inst. ; no
damage reported.
VIM. Clark has had sheep killed by
dogs recently.
Joe MINER and father are engaged
in cutting and peeling hcmlocks in
Chamberlain's wood lot.
Widow B. +. Sisco is somewhat
better in health.
The bobolinks, harbingers of sum-
mer, are on hand early this year.
Scott Tinkham has a geranum in
bloom, Of unexcellcd beauty.
We live in an exciting era, cyclones
and tornadoes of daily occurrence,
strikes and mobs in all of our large
cities, crime and death of every hue
and shade on all sides; even jeff
Davis, the fossil of the rebellion max
ing speeches, still our government runs
on quietly with Democratic president,
and all things will seek their proper
level, with free and happy people,
enjoying the best government ever
vouchsafed to man.
While George Morse, of Plne-woods,
was blowing on Friday, in turning
corner his team became entangled,
throwing the pillow upon one of the
horses and cutting it badly. Fortu-
nately holp was at hand and a runaway
prevented.
b. +. Sisco died on the 18th inst,
aged SO years. The burial took place
in the village cemetery on Thursday
a. m. Charley Shattuck and family,
of Ballard Vale, Mass, were in at
tendance as well as the many friends
near by.
School teacher Dursmore and fam
lily spent Saturday and Sunday in
Hartland.
Herbert and Harry Hudson are en-
gagged in drawing logs and cord-wood
for o. Chamberlin from his Brown lot.
Friend Buckman's new bow window
is like choice painting-a thing of
beauty, a joy evermore-owing doubt
less to the designer and builder, Simp-
son, of the well-known firm of Much
more & Whipple of Lebanon, N. II.
d. l.. Gushing has field of grass
on his Jennings place, hard to beat
he he's also fifteen acres of oats and six
acres Of fine winter wheat on his Har-
rington farm, besides fifteen acres of
planting on Mrs. Barron's village
farm.
Mrs. Paige has the earliest garden
in the village and a shrub of SNOWFALL
ia full bloom that has more than 200
blossoms on it.
FRANKIE fogg, OF Lyme, N. H., is
stopping with relatives in our village.
Mrs. Cady has fine bed of tulips
in bloom.
Muchmore's men having finished the
carpenter work at Dewey's Mi Is, AL
drich with two assistants are doing the
painting.
Rev. N. +. Carter has returned
from his visit to New Hampshire.
Lewis Whitman has bought team
and now drives as fast as any of our
Young Americas.
We feel that we should do ourselves
injustice as faithful correspondent of
q democratic journal, if we neglect to
say that r. L. Bruce preached one of
his plain and pointed sermons, to an
audience, at the hall, on
Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. Short, who has been spending
several weeks in Hartland is at home
once more.
George Fogg, of Lyme, N. H., a
former resident of our village, has been
taken to the asylum at Concord.
Mrs. Sarah Larrabee and Mrs. Ella
Stephens went to Springfield, Mass,
on Thursday, being summoned thither
by the sickness of relative.
Rev. David Kilburn preached at the
church on Sunday eve.
E Mrs. Hogden hos rented her house
to Eugene Church, and lexpects to 60
to live with her son in Nebraska.
We see great deal written in GER
tain republican papers about free trade