Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-08-06

tournament to any Of the tourna-
ment com nittec, w. n. Campbell,
John French, F. S. Billings, l..
Dana
F. D. Hale of Lunenburgh, state
auditor, was in town Tuesday audit
ing the accounts OF the officers If
Windsor county court.
Sheriff Spafford was in Barnard
Wednesday, where, with the and of
Deputy Sheriff Thomas, he raided
the premises of John Webb, an al
legged vender of shot stuff but
found none.
Justice Darrah of White River
Junction held court here Tuesday
and disposed of a case of breach Of
the peace and intoxication. The Of
fender settled up.
The Woodstock- Bridgewater ball
game on Vail field last Saturday
was anytcd>'s contest until the last
man was out, and was very in
teresting exhibition all the way
through The visitors brought their
batting toys with them and raped
the ball fast enough to keep the
local helders busy. The Wilson
brothers proved to be quite strong
battery, Mitchell pitching Il good
game for the Woodstocks. Score
9 to s in favor of Woodstock.
The Woodstocks and Bethels will
meet on Vail field tins afternoon at
: o'clock, sharp, for the third time
this season, each club having won II
game. Both teams will put up
their strongest game and large at
tendance is expected in view of the
interest shown in local base ball
recently.
Tabor, Dartmouth's crack tw,rler,
will be in the box tor the Wood.
stocks today. 1t will be Il great
game.
A horse owned by Michael Coyne
wound up runaway Tuesday
morning on the sidewalk in front of
Morgan's drug store, where he was
stopped after brilliant dash up
Elm street. He skipped out while
Coyne was hitching him up, Coyne
being thrown down and getting
bad cash in his forehead in the
tumble.
DR.. Hurlbuit's team was in Pc
cullar accident Sunday afternoon.
Louis Desc, the driver, drove it
to the fountain in the square, where
the briLle OF one of the horses
caught on projection above and
was pulled off. This frightened
the horse and the pair started, LOUIS
pulling the team around in narrow
circle with one rein until he was
tumbled out by the overturning of
of the carriage and yanked out of
the track of the flying horses. DR..
Hurlburt, who was standing near,
jumped and caught the bridled horse
by the head and after the pair had
circled about tw, or three times
more Dr.. Symonds managed to seize
the other horse and their dizz> ran
stopped. The carriage was riyhtcd
not seriously damaged, though the
top was q,ite III IL torn.
Among the Inn arrivals of the
week are:
Boston Ais, Il II B.nrr,'t. 4 + Kelly,
Mr. and Mrs A Il Mail vi n.l. Rt,i ri
Z Mann
RIP L.ne,l,. N,w York .Irs Jane, fat
derson, Miss Ell Nnll1:s.,n Il = Morse.
Mr. IN Mrs WIN @ ~ le. Mss e 18th C.s lie.
Miss Annette \ C,,tl' Philtdel phii MIR
and Mrs Quincy A Vinal. Somervils. Mass,
Mrs Ch,rla. b In graham. Mss Ihnnhan.
Hartford. CT.
B. II. Pinncy, who has done sew
eral jobs of stating about the village,
is to put slate roof on the high
school building.
The roadway ON Elm street hes
tween Dana Brothers store and
Hon. William Z. Iolnson's house
is now beng improved, one side be-
ing about completed this week.
Two feet OF cart, has been removed
and the space filled with rocks, the
surface being covered with gravel.
In two places the trench was sunk
till gravel was reached and from
these points ten.inch tile will be run
to the roadside to carry off the water
which has always been troublesome
at certain seasons of tie year.
The Woodstock Home Minstrel
company will give two grand entev''
tainments at the town hall on the
evenings of August is and I9. The
annoln cement is received with
pleasure by those who have had the
privilege OF seeing and hearing this
talented organization, and rs the
object of the entertainments is to
secure funds for building Il grand
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