Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-03-11

failed to block traffic rs it did If
February.
Herbert l.. Kneen is at his sisters
Mrs. O. a. Colby's, sick with the
the grip.
Miss Lila knccn has been confined
to the Memorial hospital, Orange,
n. T.. for several weeks with bron.
chitis.
a. NJ. Foster has been i'll for two
or three weeks with grip of the
"darkcst kind"
Rev. Charles S. Hale of Clare
mont, \. H., will officiate at St
James church Sunday.
REAL ESTATE NOTES.
John Z. Gilman has bought of f.
{. Richmond the house on High
street in which c. p. Brown has
lived for number of years. He
does not expect to occupy it.
Lewis Bourbon has sold to Frank
Clark for $500 the house on South
street formerly occupied by HIM.
+. b. Merrill has sold his house
to Frederick Chapman, but intends
to remain there until his new house
is built. The house will he moved
from the premises.
Ella II. and Harry A. Dunham
have decided to B. III. Pinney for
$1,000 the block on Elm street be-
tween Gillingham's and the Moore
Il kidder block. MIR. Plnney will
move his tinsmith business there in
October.
DEATH OF AMBROSE A. RANNEY.
Ambrose y. Ranncy, Il leading
lawyer of Boston and ex-member OF
congress, died Sunday at the age of
Is. He was once law student IN
Woodstock, and his wife attended
school here at one time. He came
of old New England stock, was the
sixth son of DR.. w. G.. Rannev, Il
practicing physician of Townshend,
Vt, and was born IN that place
April II, 1921. lie graduated from
Dartmouth in 1874, and for the fol-
lowing two years was principal of
the Chester Academy. He then be-
gan to study law IN the office of
Andrew Tracy OF Woodstock. He
was admitted to the bar in 1913, and
soon after removed to Boston.
In 1880 Mr.. Ranney was elected
to congress by the republicans of the
3rd district, and was twice re-elect-
ed, sewing through the -i7th, 18TH
ana 10TH congresses.
Mr.. Ranney married Maria d.,
daughter Of Addison Fletcher of
Cavendish, December 4, 1850, and
had four children, Fletcher, Maria
F., Helen NJ. and Alice kanney.
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.
At the High school lyceum's de-
bate last week Friday this question
was discussed: Resolved, That
capital punishment ought to be
abolished. The leader of the affinl-
atiNc side, which won, was Edwin
Emmons and of the negative. Stan
lev Fuller.
The subject OF the debate this
week Friday was, Resolved, That
suffrage should be extended to
women. The negative side won,
MIR. Howe leader, the other speak
ers being Nina King, Minnie Wood
ruff, Ethel Nutting. The speakers
on the other side were Bertha Slack,
leader, Della Dunsmore, Maud
Mills, Bessie Taylor.
COL. AINSwOKTH'S PROMOTION.
\ recent Washington dispatch is
of local interest:
"By the provisions of the army
reorganization bill, as it will become
Il law, Col. +. G. Ainsworth, chief
of the record and pension division
in the war department, will be pro-
NOTED to the rank Of brigadier gen.
eral. The law provides that this
shall be the rank of the chief of the
division so long as it is held by the
present incumbent. Col. Ainsworth
is Il Nermonter and Il native of
" oodstock."
In his speech on the bill Congress-
man Sulzcr of New York SAID:
"Some criticism has been m AIDE
against this bill because it makes the
chief of the record department a
brigadier general. The chief of
that department is Col. +. &. Aims
worth, and a more industrious gen.
tleman never lived. He is entitled
to this promotion. He has made
the record division of the war de-
partment Il model. His system has
never been excclled, and the facility
with which he can furnish the rec
ord of every soldier who was in any
war in the United States is one of
the marvels of the century. He has
saved the government thousands and
thousands of dollars. When he took
hold OF that division it was in con-
fusion-no one could find record