Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-07-09
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WOODSTOCK, VERMONT.
General Vermont News.

L. w. Shedd has been nominated for
postmaster at Montpelier.
Daniel baldwin of Wolcott is dead at
the advanced age of 81 years.
G. w. McDonough, Bennington bicy-
se dealer has failed for $1,000.
Mrs II. Smith of Holland fell down
stairs recently and broke her arm.
n. o. Reynolds of Colchester had two
COWS killed by lightning recently.
A burlington firm recently shipped
$1,000 pounds of old rubbers to Connect
icut.
Bennington has $50 dogs and $4,000 in
her treasury to the credit of the dog
fund.
Fred Hyland of East Barre was kicked
by Il horse recently and seriously in
jured.
j. c. Cady, u prominent citizen of
NOrthiield, is dead, at the age of IS
years.
j. ID. Wheeler of Randolph, formerly
grocery drummer. will practice osteo-
pathy.
John Simmons died suddenly at Benz
Il ~
supper.
The first trolley car over the Montpe-
lier and Barre Electric road was run
June IS.
Owing to litigation Camp Comfort in
Bennington county will not be opened
this year.
Six hundred thousand cans have been
WI -
ming factory.
Miss Iona NJ. Jordan of Greensboro
has just finished piecing Il quilt which
contains ll.O2b pieces.
A summer visitor at Randolph recen-
ly had saddle horse shipped to him by
express. The charge was $50.
During the first 10 months the SPRING
field electric road earned $22Ss9.39, and
cleared $S24O5, above all expenses
Lieutenant Stratton of Company X,
who had a leg amputated at the Fanny
Allen hospital. Winooski, is recovering.
The farm buildings Of Newton Her.
rick at West Brattleboro have been
burned. Nothing was saved. Insurance
$2lOO.
A farm building on the Noah Hall
place in Elmure has been consumed by
fire, which is thought to be incen-
diary.
John A. Smith, postmaster and mer-
chant of Pearl. has died very suddenly
at his home, with rheuma tism of the
heart.
In the Orange County court Alden
I,i, t,,;..
charge Of attempted murder and ac-
quilted.
The city fathers of Montpelier say that
no milk shall be sold in the hamlet on
the Winooski that does not come from
tested cows.
II. d. Carroll. who ran a bucket shop
in Bennington, is in Jail in Chicago. He
will be brought back to Vermont as soon
as his sentence expires.
The delegates from Vermont to the
Imperial council of the Mystic Shrine at
Dallas Tex, have returned. There were
over 600 delegates present.
Il. f.. Sargent, general agent Of the
Etna Life Insurance comnay and a
prominent democrat. has recently died
at st. Johnsbury of apoplexy. aged 65
years.
The injunction restraining the Barre
electric road from using power from J.
X. Niles' plant at MiddleseX has been
modified ana the road will soon be in
operation
John Bitney Of Middlebury has been
sentenced to the state indust rial school
at Nergennes for the remainder of his
minority for petty larceny. He is Is
years Of age.
Harry .. Dwight of MOntepler Sc
cured the first prize in the prize essay
contest held in Amherst college, for tho
members OF the graduating class. The
amount of the prize was 500.
c. F. Sweeney of Morrisville. who was
compelled to vacate his position as one
OF the cable operators at Havana by
Weyler, is now working in the telegraph
office at White River Junction.
The Cycle club of Richmond has re-
Gently bought Il 200 pound roller with
which it will roll very good bicycle
path by the roadside, without large ex-
pense. The club has 80 members.
Christopher Rice Of Rutland, an &C.
centric man, is dead of heart disease,
aged I'll years. He was a native of Eng
land. He was veteran, serving through
the war. and was buried by the Grand
Army.
The Bennington County National
bank has declared a sem-annual divi-
dend of per cent, payable July l. and
The bennington County Savings bank
dividend of per cent, payable at the
same time.
Giles W, Clarke has died very sudden
ly at Island Pond. aged Sc years. He
was working in his garden on the after
noon of his death. He was the Essex
County member of the Republican state
committee.
The Vermont boys at Chickamauga
nave found number of the world
famous Barre granite monuments erect.
ed by different states to their dead he
roes. but have been unable to find any
erected by Vermont.