Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1896-01-04
General Vermont News.

French Cana lians in Newport have organ.
/ lied u naturalization club TO prepare them
selves for the coming campaign 1t is called
! the Lafayette Naturalization club. and has
Tor It's objects to assist all eligible foreigners
/ to become citizens 10 educate its members
IN political economy; to post them on the
doin - of legislators, state and national, and
all other social topics of discus lion. Dr. j.
L. Prladeau is president.
\ consignment Of West Virginia quail has
been received by y. p. Lench of sheldon,
chairman Of the stnte committee on new
game. These birds will he distributed
through the state. While they are intro.
duced primarily for their value rs game,
they are also valuable destroyers Of potato
bugs
Bellows Falls has enjoyed the largest
growth OF any year OF its existence, the total
value Of newly constructed buildings, or re-
pairs on old ones, amounting to nearly Sl25,-
900. Brattleboro reports $500, 900 expended
in such improvements.
The Vermont Dairymen's association will
hold its annual meeting in Rutland Jan Z,
SO. The officers OF the association
erting every effort to make the meeting u
success. The cash prizes amount to 81 400
in the dairy exhibit. Special rates on the
railroads have been arranged for and the ho-
tells have reduced prices to 81. so. Send for
program to G. W. Pierce. secretary, Brandon.
The Rockingham house nt Bellows Falls
was raided again last week and II quart
bottles of liquor, sealed, and case OF 10
sealed bottles with one opened, WAS found III
the store room Tho proprietor said the liq
uor was bought before the last raid mentioned
last week, that he had decided not to sell liq-
uor any more and had placed 1t in the store
room to send back to New York. The state
declared that u mental reservation could not
overcome the contraband nature or the
goods. Decision was reserved.
The steel range man is taking the place Of
the lightning rod man In the taking incident
to such peripatetic convassers. 1t seems Us
though people would know better than to
patrOnize strangers, but 1t seems thnt u lurHe
number have been bitten in different parts OF
the state.
Nicholas and Charles Hlliard Stamford,
brothers, aged ~ and II, shot bear while
hunting rabbits. The animal weighed 500
pounds. They got about $40 for him. includ-
ing sl5 from the state.
Glover has II saw mills run by water
power, the first one erected IN 1908. One
mill has produced 100000 feet Of lumber In
the past years.
Improvement in Vermont newspaper seems
in order The Bellows Falls Times changes
to sem-weekly form Jan. l, aud the Morris
vile Advertiser makes some changes.
Lyons Brothers yarn mill, which will be
started In Bennington next month, will em-
ploy Is hands.
The Brattleboro home for the aged and
disabled has received s 900 from the estate
Of DIR. A. Stedman OF West Brattleboro.
Work on the Burlington and Hinesbury
railroad has been ton porarily suspended,
but will be resumed Immediately.
st. Albans hotel and restaurant keepers
are preparing to resist the operation Of the
la,u A
held at which the sentiment was strongly In
favor Of such action and II the governor ap-
points special prosecutor for st.
Albans, every hotel and restaurant will
bo closed.
The dairy school Of the University of ver-
mont and State Agricultural College will be
held from Jan. 0 to Feb. . inclusive. Instruo-
tion and illustration of butter making Will
be given, and two courses OF lectures, ag-
gregating As in number, will be given. Write
to Prof. J. l.. Hills, Burlington, for further
information.
Burlington has 577 licensed dogs and 200
or more unlicensed, and yet Burlington is
called the Queen City.
The Christmas flood and breakup will long
be remembered In Vermont. In many places
roads we're washed, bridges carried away
and damage to other property done. The
ice went out of most of the rivers and the
water has since remained high, preventing
freezing again.
Money was never closer in some parts OF
the state. Poor weather has interfered with
numbering; larger crops than usual have pre-
vented ready sale OF products and other
causes have combined to cause considerable
shortness of money. The outlook is improv-
Ing however, and will soon be much better
than 1t has been this winter.
The Hardwick and Woodbury. railroad
directors will soon hold meeting to discuss
the question Of financing before beginning
the laying Of rails in the spring.
1t looks as though Springfield would get
her electric road to Charlestown, N. H., In
the spring. The citizens are taking hold OF
the enterprise encouragingly and the money
will probably be raised shortly.
Work on the foundations for the new can
ming factory at Windsor has begun.
DR.. J. NJ. Ryder was acquitted OF murder
in the Windsor County court last week.