Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-06-18
General Vermont News.

ST. Andrews church. st. Johnsbury,
has a vested boy choir.
The Valentine knitting mills at Benz
nington have resumed work.
The advent camp meeting. at Beebe
Plain. begins Saturday, June Is.
a r.. Watson of Hartford is mentioned
for senator i'm Windsor county.
The funeral of Mrs. Lamb of North
field aged ~ has just been held
Forty thousand trout have just been
placed in Wilmington streams last week.
Three creameries have been estab-
lished in Bennington county in Il short
time.
The Rutland county creamery at Pitts
ford is receiving $1,000 pounds of milk
daily.
The Washington county Republican
convention will be held at Montpelier
June 30.
The Barre Telegram nominates Coll
onel John Watson of Bradford for state
auditor.
The tax rate in Barre has just been
fixed by the city council at 2,G2 cents on
the dollar.
A a-year-old child died At Fair Haven
June i that only weighed Is pounds at
its demise.
The new Avenue house ut st. Johns
bury reports $1,000 more business in May
than April.
Worms are again ut work on the maple
trees in Pomfret, which they nearly
ruined last year.
Barre is growing SO fast that the school
directors have To take dwelling houses
for school purposes.
Montpelier police say that the bicycle
lamps must and shall be lighted every
night when the cycle is used.
Fred a. Field of Rutland has been
nominated by the presiden, to be United
States marshal for Vermont.
+. T.. Graham, the lumber dealer Of
Montpelier, was thrown from his car
rage and severely injured recently.
A Burlington boy. in the person OF
Lieutenant Henry r. Mayo. will go To
Manila with the gunboat Bennington.
The Orleans County Veterans Assoc
citation will hold its next annual re-
union at Newport on the 2Sth day Of
June.
Henry Chaffee of Albany has a sheep
that he utilizes to run his milk separator.
Its spring clip of wool weighed 10
pounds.
The saw mill. Jelly works, house and
barn adjoining at West Dummerston
have been burned. Loss, $1,000; no in
surance.
The +. & T. Fairbanks company Of St.
Johnsbury has just declared a quarterly
divident of $375 per share; the second
this year.
w. O. Greeley of Waterford, had u
team stolen by his hired man. The man
was a stranger and had been in his EN-
ploy less than month.
William Foster OF New York has set
tied all claims against the Lebanon
Springs railroad and will operate it as
soon as ii can he put in shape.
Senator Proctor and United States
Fish Commissioner Bowers of West
Virginia has been visiting the United
States hatcheries in the state.
c. o. Chamberlain. manager OF the St.
James hotel. jacksonville, Fla, will
have charge of the Owls Head hotel,
Lake Memphremagog. this season.
Charles p. Carpenter of st. Johns
bury is dead at the age of so. He was
born in Poultry in 1918. He had been
employed in the scale works for over 80
years.
Colonel o. Il. Seaver of Woodstock was
offered an appointment as brigader gen =
eral, upon the recommendation of the
Vermont delegation in congress, but
declined.
DR.. II. d. Holton of Brattleboro, who
has been mentioned for lieutenant gov
ernor, has gone to Dover to attend the
convention of the American Medical as
SOCiatiOn.
Judge Lyford of Warren, George Ran
dali and wife of Wells River, and Ste
phen Colby and wife of Montpelier have
gone to Dallas, Tex. to attend the I'M
perial Council of the Mystic Shrine.
Miss Alice Ordway. formerly of Bar
ton Landing, died last week at Green
field. Mass. For Is years she was libra
rian of the Kansas state library, but
was removed when the Populists came
into power.
Mrs. Clara II. Jones of Bradford is a
prominent candidate for rational super
intendent of the Woman's Relief corps.
Mrs. Jones now hold the position Of
junior vice president of the national
organization.
James Crafford, a well known stone
cutter of Hardwick met with an un-
fortunate accident which may cost him
an eye. He had secured day off from
labor and was fishing near Craftsbury
When casting the troll one of the hooks
caught in the left eye. badly decorating
the lid and slightly tearing the eye ball.
Orin Cutler has recently died at Bar
ton, aged SS. He was living at Green's
bOrO at the time of the battle of Patts-
burgh. Hsdistinctly remembered being
taken out into a field and hearing the
firing. After leaving home he went to
Cambridge and lived in the Lowell
family James Russell Lowell was then
a youth in college. Jared Sparks, Henry
w. Longfellow and others were frequent
visitors at the house. Returning to
Vermont he married Mary j. Leavcn-
worth of Danville, May &C. 1910, and
moved to Barton village In 1856. His
business has been that of farmer and