Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-11-20

innate of the number killed was be
tween 40 and $50. E. A. Glitter
den of St. Adams spoke IN favor @
: having the law repealed, and mad
a motion that the legislative com
J. mittee of the league take such meas
ures as it thought best to have tn,
I; law for an open season repealed a
: the next General Assembly. Tn
motion was unanimously carried
]. w. Titcomb was reelected presi
dent of the league.
The directors of the city library
association OF Springfield, Mass, or
Wednesday unanimously elected
John c. Dana of Denver Librarian
of the institution, the news Of the
appointment being received with
great pleasure by Mr.. Dana's friends
here. The Springfield Republican
says:
"Mr. Dana has accepted the posi-
ton and will come here to begin his
new duties about January 10. He
IS one of the leading younger libra
rians of the country and has been in
charge of the Denver public library
for the past eight years, and has
also, for the same time, been secre-
tary of the school board of the larg.
est school district in the city, spend
ing now some 100000 annually
tor its schools. He was president
OF the American Library Assoca-
ton in 1896 and is we'll known and
hghiv c,tce,,,cd ny all Of tile library
experts of the country"
MIR. Dana succeeds the late DR..
William Rice.
The Baldwin Locomotive works
OF Philadelphia. controlled by former
Vermont men, among whom is Dr..
Edward II. Williams, have Just re.
ceived foreign orders for locomotives
aggregating $6oo,ooo. Twenty-Five
locomotives are to go to the Finland
railway, 10 to Canada, "a to Brazil,
and one each to Mexico and Norway.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles J. Ives and
Mrs. Eliakim johnson started for
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Thursday.
They make the journey in Mr.. Ives
private car.
F S. Mackenzie was in Boston
and New York the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. l.. Dana returned
from trip to New Work and Bos.
ton Sunday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs c. p. Swain have
gone to Manchester, N. H., and MIR.
Swain will visie New York and
Boston before returning. Herbert
Moulton of Quechee is in charge of
the express office during his absence.
There have been several real es.
tate deals the past week. Newell
Woods of Brrdgewater bought the
Marshall Jaquith farm at South
Woodstock, paying about $500, and
Fl. II. Daniels sold his farm on the
South Woodstock road for $4,000 to
X. b. Perkins of Bridgewater.
Erwin M. Nutting has again taken
his old place as operator at the
Western Union Office and Hugh
Frazer 7has returned to Burlington.
The memorial window to Mrs.
Moses Kidder has been put in place
in the front Of the Christian church
this week and two more windows,
memorials to Cyrenus and Lucy
Houghton, and to Hosea and Mary
Vaughan are here ready to be putin.
In about: "A month, four more stained
glass windows, two of them being
memorials to Mrs. Verona Smith
and Esther Adams Watkins, will ar.
rive. Two of these windows will
BE- placed on the front of the church.
The opening of c. B. Bridge
mans new variety store on Thurs
day was very successful and largely
attended.
Thanksgiving day will be men,
orable in the annals of White River
Junction. On that day the corner
stone of the large, elegant and costly
new Catholic church will be placed
IN position. The Rt. Rev. Bishop
Of Springfield, Mass, DR.. Beaver,
will oficiate, assisted by large
number OF priests from New Hamp-
shire. Massachusetts, and Vermont
Delegations of tho laity are expect
ed from neighboring towns.
Good Reports from the Gold Mines.
Reports from the Springfield gold
mine in Bridgewater say that
twelve.foot vein of pure quartz has
Just been uncovered which assays
$35 in gold and about So in silver
! to the ton. This vein was struck
about quarter of Il mile from the
old workingsvaes !hs same brook.
Just how much Of this gold-bear,ng
quartz has been uncovered is not
learned. but there IS enough in sight