Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-10-08
General Vermont News.

company T. OF Barro Will robliXc huout
$500 from their Held day.
Major Charles Woodbury.. who has been
Ill at Annison, Ala, is better.
Mrs. Sarah NJ. Ball OF 1yndonville Is dead
at the advanced age of 30 years.
John Shed lex left Bristol 80 years ago and
has just been back on his first visit.
The Vermont State Federation of Women's
clubs Is meeting at Brattleboro Oct. 8.
Isaiah Benson of Woodstock has q pair OF
Holstein oxen thar weigh 1900 pounds.
Hay is selling at Bristol for *6 a ton de-
livered. Potatoes bring 80 cents bushel.
Mr.. and Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt Of
New York have been visiting In Shelburne
Falls.
st. Johnsbury has voted to build a brick
schOolhouse in Summervie not to cost over
$4,000.
The Granite City Poultry association will
hold its third exhibition ut Barre Dee. ~,
! % and %
Sneaks cut the bellows in Mari l. Gordon's
tool shoop at Barre recently. The damage
Is about $50.
Mrs. Susan Francis. wife OF the late Will
liam Henderson OF Burlington, is dead after
brief illness.
Jason Powers. formerly prominent In the
affairs OF Burke, has recently died ut Eaton,
p. O., aged II,
H. l.. Whitehead. formerly of Vernon, has
been appointed referee In bankruptcy in
North Dakota.
While hunting recently W. r. Enright OF
Berlin was shot in the hand and will lose
his index finger.
Glare Turner of Barre. who was killed at
Providence, X. l.. in Il railroad accident, had
$4,000 accident insurance.
John G. Barclay OF Barre has returned
after an absence OF nine years, during which
time no one knew where he was.
The Traction company of Burlington
have begun work building another line TO
Winooski over the clover road
The Salisbury furniture factory at Ran
dolph is rushed with orders this fall and Is
employing about 40 men. 1t has a large ex-
port trade.
Major II. y. Fillmore of the Vermont reg
iment has so far recovered from his severe
illness as to be able to return to his home In
Bennington.
Rev. L.. ID. Temple Of the Baptist church
at Brattleboro has resigned and call has
been rendered Rev. r. U. Sherwood Of South
Norwalk. Conn.
A sucking colt. by Bradlaugh out of the
noted brood mare Laura, formerly owned by
John A. Moore Of Barnard. was sold at Wa
terbury fair for 1926.
The Roxbury creamery paid its patrons
cooperative creamery lS 3-4 cents. the Brig
ham creamery ~ cents.
Ned Alexander, Il Berlin painter fell 80
feet from roof with a ladder recently, de-
nolishing clothes. reel in his flight, but
escaped without scratch.
The Cotton Manufacturing company OF
Montpelier has recently received large
or lers for ts goods from California, where
1t Is building up a large trade.
hi.
at the scale shops In 1t. Johnsbury and the
| prospects for busy winter at the scale fac
tory, in all its departments we're never
brighter.
The society event OF the season at Windsor
was the recent marriage OF Miss Mary,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. Proper, to
Albert =; Bans, popular young business
| w. A. Edison of Williamstown is dead. Il
will be remembered that few weeks since
Mr.. Edson's team ran away while he was on
| his way home from Brookfeld and that he
was dragged on the ground for over a mile,
injuring him internally.
Alanson Luce OF Montpelier Is 80 years
old, yet he got up recently at O'Clock In
| the morning and went to Ottawa on the ex-
| cursion. He returned on an early train
but was not satisfied and went to the North
| field fair on the same day.
A bill drafted by resident OF Berlin to be
presented at the coming session OF the legis-
lature provides that when taxpayer pays
taxes In two towns to an amount equal or In
excess OF poll tax, he may send his chill
dren to school without paying tuition in
either town in the district where his property
| Is taxable.
Mayor Senter OF Montpelier has two thor
oughbred Irish settlers who are brother and
sister. One afternoon as soon as the law
was of the sister was found to be missing
from her accustomed haunts, but q little
later she made her appearance proudly bear
ing plump partridge over her shoulder
which she had gone forth and captured un-
aided.
1t was Quartermaster Hermann c. Green,
a VermOnter, who stood at the wheel and
steered the Gloucester when she sank the
Spanish torpedo boat. He Is only 81 years
old, and 1t was he who manned the wheel
during the entire battle at Santiago, while
Captain Wainwright stood on one side of
him and Lieutenant Huse on the other, all
exposed to the shot and shell which the
SpAniards so Intellectually fired at the little
craft.
Evan Evans boasts Of private mensgsris.
He Is willing, however, to dispose Of It to
any aspiring Snowman who will "take 1t
away Skunks to an uncertain number,
presumably mamma skunk and several
babies, have crawled through the cold air
flue Of his store furnace and taken up
| ~
warm. He is in quandary just how to ex-
tricate them without -. Meanwhile cold
weather Is coming on.
The statement that Manchester was the
only town In Bennington county that could
boast Of having soldier in the regular
army brought prompt denial from Pownal
and the names OF four persons In the regular
army are mentioned the two Blanchard
boys, Daniel +. Proud and Claude Reynolds.
The first two are In the infantry, Reynolds
Is in the artillery and Proud is Q member of
the signal corps. Col. Merritt Barber, who
was chief Of General Merritt's stsn, and
who is now stationed at Governors Island,
N. Y, is POwnal boy.
Miss Lucy s. Ruggles, who died recently
at Bennington, aged 81, was a sister of the
late General Ruggles Of the confederate
army. For many years she was teacher
in several schools for young women in the
south. She came to Bennington to reside
years she was very frequent contributor Of
poetry to the local papers. During the past
few years she had been almost totally blind
and lived alone. 1t Is reported that she has
left handsome property that will 60 to
Massachusetts, institutions.
minister in a town not thousand miles
away from Poultney surprised his audience
by reading the following announcement from
the pulpit: THE regular session Of the Dom
| key club will be held as usual after the close
Of the service. Members will line up just
outside Of the church door, make remarks
and stare at the ladies who pass, Is 10 their
custom. Any member known to escort .
lady to church like a man and sit with her
like gentleman will be expelled from mem-
bership." The application was to the point
and the effect was marvellous
Angry Manager-"What did you mean
| by smiling in that death scene?"