Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-09-03


ing party for her friend Miss Hey
wood last Tuesday evening.
!; Miss Marion Campbell gave
birthday party Monday evening.
Frank Woodward of New Yorl
is visiting his sister, Mrs. Minnie
Raymond.
y special town meeting has bee,
called for Saturday afternoon, Sept
10, for the purpose of elcctin.
ioad commissioner to succee,
Charles W. Smith, who has re
signed.
The coaching parade at the Wind
sor County fair, which opens Sept
Fl, can be made one of its brightest
and most attractive features, and il
is not too early now for those who
intend to enter to begin to prepare
TOR 1t Good premiums are Offered,
and the fair managers are especially
DESTROYS of making the business
mems display thorough success IN
every respect. A little rivalry will
bring out the best that can be done
and every one who has any inten.
ton of participating should take
hold of the matter now. Wood
stock had Il fine parade two wears
ago and there is no reason why as
much cannot be done this year.
Recent Inn arrivals:
J NEW York l. Adams: james Stokes
and valet.
BosroN DIR and Mrs T. W PAYNE. Mr. and
Mrs a f. Mann. Mr. and Mrs N w Pierce,
| Miss X G Pierce. W $ Abbott, Mrs Annie
Hall Taylor, Mrs II A Neal, Miss Neal.
Miss NJ + Lynch, Pawiucket. 4 I; Mrs
Alden Speare. Newton Centre: Mass; Mr.
and Mrs i Brown, ST Johnsbury: Miss
Mary + Sawyer. Frank s Bradley. Dover,
II; MIR and Mrs Geo o Robinson, De.
troit, Mich; Mr. and Mrs Schuyler Merritt
Miss Katharine Merritt, Stamford, Ct: Mr.
and Mrs Morse. Brookline, Mass; Allen
" Brown and wife, Hartford. CT: Rev and
Mrs to NJ Williams yMontreal DR. and Mrs
!; Nj French. Miss Margaret French. Man.
chester, N II; DR. ii O Worthen and wife,
Barre.
Sportsmen have been LAYING in
stock of unition and polishing
up their rapid-firc guns in prepara-
ton for the shooting season which
opened Sept. /. cartridges are said
to he plenty this season. The deer
shooting season opens October l,
and rs it is probable that the legisla.
turc at its coming session will repea
the law allowing the shooting of
deer in October il great many hunt.
ers viii. he out tor final crack at
them. There are said to be quite as
many deer as there were last year,
though there were not Il great num-
Der shot then.
Miss Sweet and Miss Kellogg of
Hartford, Ct, arrived Friday.
Mrs. Harvey w. Smith of Park
Ridge, Ill.,, is the guest of kew. and
Mrs. f. w. Smith at the rcctorv.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. w. Wilder have
been at the Waumbek, White Noun
tains, few days this week.
The Kings Daughters met with
Mrs. VIM. Batcheldcr last week
Friday evening to make arrange
mcnts for an entertainment to be
given at the Congregational church
parl"rs FRIDAY evening, Sept. 9,
from 7 to 10 c'clock Vocal and in
Strumcntnl music will be rendered
and light refreshments served. All
are cordially invited
Arrivals at College Hill House
the past week:
NJ Virginia Smith, Wellesley.
Mass. w X Shlrtevant and wife,
Florence II Stnrtevant, Helen X
S'urtcvLnt, Alice X Sturtevant,
lIartlanh; w lIigman. Barre;
Mrs. Ma'gc, son, Miss Margcr,on,
Dorchester, Mass. Geo. $ w kel-
log, \ewtonvile, Mass. Frank
Cory. Squire Suicliife, New York |
Hugh ID Ray, Hartford.
Mrs. Brown of Bellows Falls and
Mrs. Wood of Westminster visited
their sister, Mrs. Ratchclder, this
week.
Mrs. !. A. Hobart of Nineland,
\. j., is visiting Mrs. l.. II. Pike
and other friends in this vicinity.
The afternoon tea and exhibition
of pictures by Miss Pitkin and her
summer sketch and painting class at
the Woodstock Inn on Tuesday |. st
proved IL very pleasant occasion.
The pictures and sketches were
hung on the veranda, which was en-
closed with bunting and decorated
with wild flowers. The paintings
and sketches of Nantucket bv Miss
Pitkin and Miss Josephine Pitkin
were characteristic of the famous
resort and found many appreciativc
admirers. The class work speaks
highly of Miss Pitkin's ability as a
teacher to bring out the best work
of her pupils and to interest them in
the observation of nature and she is
to he congratulated on the success
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