Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1896-08-01

The local telephone exchange is
nearly completed and will be in full
operation IN few days. Yves
Woodstock is now connected will
this village, the instrument being al
Spaulding's store, which is pay
station.
J. Foster Rhodes left Thursday
for Detroit.
The committee of the Woodstock
High School Alumni association
have received enough acceptances to
the invitations sent out to insure a
successful reunion the evening OF
Friday, Aug. 7. 1t is necessary,
however, that the committee know
the exact number coming, and all
graduates intending to be present,
who have tailed to notify the COM
mittee, are requested to do so at
once.
Local whcclmen are very much
interested in bicycle meet, for
which $275 in gold and diamond
prizes is offered. 1t will be held
Friday, Aug. 7, on the fai grounds.
c. II. Caigue, Nermont's young
professional, and II. Berwin. one of
New Hampshire's crack riders, will
be the star performers, and there
will be several races by town and
county wh,elmen.
Sabine Daiglc is to erect Il two
story house on River street, on land
just purchased of Jerome Washburn.
Mrs. f. r. Jewett is in Whitman
tic, Conn.
Thomas Flint, .Jr., started on his
return to California Monday.
Andrew Richmond of South
Woodstock has been granted pen.
sion of S. a month through the
agency Of John Gilman.
A series of five musical and liter
airy entertainments is to be given
here, beginning about October 1,
the managers of the course being
Claiming Williams, F. w. Howes
and ID. &. Sherwin. The list of
attractions follows: First, Ship
Brothers, English Hand Bell Ring
crs, assisted by Will Hallowell Ora.
ham, reciter, of Boston; second,
Swedish Concert company-Swe-
dish Male Quartette, Miss Jennie
Shoemaker, reader, of Chicago,
Miss Bertha Webb, violinist, Bos-
ton; third, Frank r. Robertson, H.
Illustrated lecture, "Japan;" fourth,
Unity Concert company, Boston;
fifth, Benjamin c. Chaplin, dramatic
interpreter in Nicholas Nicklebv.
The following press dispatch dated
San Francisco, July 10, will he of
interest to the friends of Sho Memo
to, who was educated by the late
Frederick Billings, and who is
pleasantly remembered as former
resident here:
Among the passengers on the
steamer China, which arrived to-day
from Yokohama, were Sho Nemoto
and I. kusakado, prominent .Japa-
nese business men, whose errand is
to arrange the details of Il gigantic
colonization scheme in Mexico.
They have secured an option on
100000 acres of land in the State OF
Chiapas, Mexico, and are on their
way south to consummate the deal.
The land is sold to them at ST. per
acre. The immense tract will be
cut into small farms, which will be
operated by coolie labor brought
from Japan. Cotton, sugar, tohae-
w, diu QttlCI kIoVNSts dV0JtOO w
the climate will be raised. In addi-
ton to the above scheme, Sho Ne
moto has been commissioned by the
Japanese to investigate the trade
prospects of Mexico and Central
America. 1t is the desire of the
Japanese to trade directly with the
countries south of the United States
as far down us Panama, and a steam
ship line has been subsidized to run
To ports along the Pacific coast.
The main port will be San Diego,
in this state, aud it is the intention
OF Japanese manufacturers to inn
port all their cotton via San Diego
instead of through San Francisco
and Puget Sound ports, as at pres
ent. Traffic arrangements will also
probably be made with the Tehuan-
tepec Railroad, thus giving the new
steamship company access to the At
lantic. coast. The steamship COM
pany has nothing to do with the one