Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-08-13
EDW ARD G. DAN a.
General Vermont News.


n partial sunstrokc.
a lodge OF the y. II. o. T. has been or
| sani2cd at Morrisvillc.
Frank Y. Taylor wins in the hot post
office contest at Hardwick.
/ pr. Logon OF " oodstock has been sick
with typhoid fever II; Boston.
Willie Shcchan fell from Il piazza at
| Rutland and broke his left leg.
Barre cycle riders are being fined every
| time they ride ON thu sidewalks.
Fred PcrciNal of Barton cut one knee
severely on bandsaw recently.
The Barre and Montpelier electric road
carried $1,000 passengers in the first l5
days.
The Bascomb house Bethel has been
leased to Fred Pippin of White River
| Junction.
Another attempt to build a hotel in
Earrc suitable to the needs of the city
| has failed.
Fred Wheeler of Barton Landing was
struck in the head hy baseball recently
| and badly hurt.
Ned c. Haynes, formerly of the Rut-
land Herald. has been engaged as re-
porter ON the Daily Argus.
The Hudson Valley creamery of Foult
nry during the month ending with July
| rail To its atrons $4,000.
riphthc,ia has broken out again at
Berlin Falls. where there are four cases
and one death in one family.
Mrs. Henry Clark of Glover had her
right arm broken in two places recently
by falling from ii load of hay.
Tho anual ,uENvTtion of the Univer-
saists of Vermont and Quebec will bn
held i'm stowe, Aug. -. n, %.
A Newport man is exhibiting the body
of II good sized bird which he found in
side of II tlrcc-pound pirkcrcl.
George Mcdowell of Sheffield was
thrown from a horse rake recently and
had one leg broken besides being badly
bruised.
Carl Perkins of st. JOhnshury is re-
port I'd as having caught a lake trout
Weighing l3ia pounds in Caspian lake,
Greensboro
The receipts of the Woodstock post
Office for the year ending June 30. 1898,
were S52iS9S, an increase of $2jl 81 over
the preceding year.
Thomas Dugan recently appointed as
siStant general freight agent of the
Fitchburg railroad, at one time was
resident of Bellows Falls
Arthur Baybrook, aged is, of Stratton.
was arrested at Bennington July IL for
| urGiary. a watch, $40 in cash and
lot o! very were recovered.
Or. IL. T. Hanks, ii Randolph boy. of
the New York postgraduate medical
schoUl and hospital, has been made pro-
fCssor emeritus by the board of direct
Ors.
Two letters addressed tn H. NJ. Briggs,
Pensacola, Fla, and mailed at White
River junction May 20, 1889, overlook
him at burlington, July 2l after nine
years chase.
A new potato bug is reported at Que
chec. 1t is long and slim, of Il blush
east. rcmarka Bile agile, and possess,
Of IL good appetite, but is easily killed
By paris green.
a well executed counterfeit of the s.
dominion of Canada bill is in circulation
in Vermont, and Il goodly number of the
bogus bills are being passed in the towns
on the boundary line.
The income of the Bellows Falls post
office for the year ending July 1 was
$13.l5S, an increase of $50 over 1897 and
an increase of $50 since Postmaster
Dow took the Office Jan. |. 1885
Napoleon Lafelurc, candy maker at
Cross bakery, MOntpeIcr, was severely
burned while taking pc. Of ovcrrunning
candy from the s'lv, Atcrc it was in
fanger OF setting things on fire.
NJ. d. Rice of Roxbury caught in
Dog river one of the largest brook trout
that has been caught in Washington
county. 1t weighed two and one half
pounds. 1t was 1S inches in length. Az
deep and 9la thick.
Fred Thomas of tho Montpelier COM
pany. who was rejected on account of
hernia and who underwent an operation
that he might be accepted, has fully rc-
covered and left to join the army at
Chickamauga, July ~.
A recent ruling of the postofice de
partment prohibits the sending of the
culture tubes of the state board of health
through the mails; therefore physi-
clans must, until further notice, send
them by express, prepaid
The contest for the secretaryship Of
the senate the coming session is to be
pretty ono The candidates are Z. w.
Gibson of Chester, Carl G. Fletcher Of
st. Albans and Max l.. Powell of Burling-
ton and \. q. Coolidge of Rutland.
The Brigham company of Randolph
paid S3446.50 Tor 459,i02 pounds Of milk in
Jun"; 16 cents per pound for butter fat;
Ass cents per 100 pounds of milk; aver
age test, 46S; butter made, 2f,5l2 pounds.
pounds Of milk per pound of butter, 1896.
The veteran printer, II. B. Davis Of
Bellows Falls, is in very poor health.
owing to an accident some I'm" ago that
affected his spine. He has been con-
ncctcd with the CaIedonian. Watchmnn,
Lyndonvillc Journal and several other
papers.
An effort is being made to start the
tanncry at Morrisvillc, which, owing to
the market conditions has been idle for
conle time A stock company havinS n
capital of $4,000 is being formed. with
800 shares of $50 each, go of these shares
having already been taken.
Another Vermont shoe company has
failed. This time it is the BURLINGTON
Shoe company for $4,000, assets about
$4,000. Max l.. Powell has been ap-
pointed assignee. The Boston Counter
company has sued the company !or Slrn0
and Chadbourne & Moore, a Boston firm.
have entered suit for $3.50. A.
The secretary of state has received an
application for IL charter of the hu. ines
operated by yeN-GovernOr Carol 5; paG
at Hyde Park. Ex-Governor PaEo d.
sircs {" ir""i poratc the business -
its reputation may not be stolen or the
name used by persons who nav. rr.
right to do so. Tie signers of the aprli-
cation are c. s. Page. r. II. Page. f.. f.
Page. Il. $. Page and Alice Fage. The