Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1896-08-15
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Mr.. and Mrs. b. NJ. Ayers and
daughter, Mrs. II. M. Ayers and
Miss Cook are at p. A. Pierce's.
Colt is attracting Il great deal of
attention from visitors and local en-
thusiasts and the game has been go
ing on daily in spite of the swelter-
ing heat. Aside from the excite
mcnt of the game, the scenery to be
viewed from the links is considered
uncommonly fine, and is hardly to
be surpassed i'll beauty and variety
in New England.
Woodstock and Dewe,'s Mills
meet on the ball field this Saturday
afternoon at 3 o'clock, and Wood
stock hopes to win the game. There
is plenty of material here for good
team and Il little more practice, of
which the men were deprived earl
Ter in the season on account of the
lack of Il good field, will bring the
players into form. The "rooters"
are ready an. day and they want to
sec winning ball.
A very attractive and successful
icxhihtion of posters was given at
the Inn Wednesday evening, the ex-
amplcs of pictorial advertising
yshown, about two hundred and fifty
in number, being from the collection
of Miss Ida F. Mead, Il member of
Towards orchestra, and the Wood.
stock Age collection, The latter hav-
ing before been exhibited here.
There We're many quite rare c'pies
shown, and included in Miss Mcads
collection, which took up the larger
portion of the space, was the "Cen-
fury" prize poster, this and other
striking designs attracting much at
tention from the visitors. In The
Age collection were about Il dozen
French posters, they being an inter-
esting feature of the exhibit, the
most notable being four or five by
kCherct, G. lie Feure and other mas
fers in this line of art.
Mr.. B. F. Stevens, president of
the New England Mutual Life In
surancc company, has lately present
ed the Norman Williams Public
Library with about hundred VOL
umes. They consist mostly of his
torical works, biographies, ETC., and
few volumes of fiction, in all max
ing a valuable addition to the library.
Mr.. Stevens was guest of the Inn
for time last summer and his hand
some gift is generous evidence of the
interest he took in it.
\ little relief from the boiling
temperature Of the past week or two
came Friday, but the heralded cold
wave failed to arrive. The record
for the past nine days is as follows:
Wednesday, Aug. 5, 90, Thursday
"A. Friday, Saturday and Sunday
So. Monday 60, Tuesday 50, We'd
nesday 95, Thursday 81. The low
est point reached was 6I.
Miss Lucie Dunlap of Hartford,
Ct., Miss Cornclia S. Post and Har-
old Post Of Westbrook. Ct. Miss
Estelle Spencer and ]. w. Spencer
of New York, are at Dr.. Chandeliers.
The Woodstock Creamery is hard
pushed just now, on account of the
heat and drouth, to supply its pa
irons, but is better able than some
other creameries in this section to
meet present demands.
About a hundred of the circus
s'ers from Woodstock got left at the
Junction in the afternoon. They
expected to return on the late mail
train. but it started on time, before
the performance was over, and they
were obliged to wait for the 10. 20
special.
The Woodstock railway carried
about 400 people from this village
aud vicinity to the circus at White
River Junction Thursday.
The Central House. lately remod-
eled, has just been painted, and
now presents very handsome APP
praraHce.
The Dearborn mineral spring was