Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-10-28
VERMONT NEWS.

The state corporation tax is 44O3, ,535. 80.
Windsor is SAID to have tho finest golf
cO,lrss in America.
The canning factory mt Windsor put up
1900, 600 cans this season.
DR.. Horace Watson OF Topsham, has loca-
ted permanently in Montpelier.
A steam mill is to be erected on the lot Of
Charles T.. Peasley. East Washington.
Preparations are boing made for an cleo
tric railway line from Lake Dunmore to
Rutland.
Delmar Smith Of Middlebury has been ap-
pointed superintendent Of public buildings
In the Philippines.
Mrs. W. Seward Webb has given $500 to
:he woman's auxiliary of the Episcopal
church OF Vermont.
Il. S. Pike and Charles and Lucius Averill
of Wilmington each carried Off 100 pounds
Of honey from swarms of wild bee.
II seems now to be a settled fact that the
electric road from Bellows Falls to Saxtons
River, five miles. will be built this fall.
Miss Maud Stevens of Mddlebury has
been engaged to train both the University OF
Vermont and Midllcbury college glee clubs
Mrs. L. =. Gibson Of Rutland has been
slec ed president Of the Vermont branch Of
The woman's auxiliary Of the Episcopal
church.
The lime kiln in Nottingham, owned by
Martin Il Fits of Brattleboro, and leased to
]. Noble. has been burned. The loss is
tbout $1,000.
The Rev. c. NJ. Dockam. formerly minis
er Of the Advent church in st. JOhnsbury
las accepted call to the church at North
wood Narrows. N. ii.
Rev. Warren X. Morse OF Bridgewater has
accepted IL call to become minister OF the
pld First Church ut Pennington. He will
segin his duties November 10.
Members OF the Ekwanok Golf club Of
Manchester have subscribed over $lO, 200
which will be expended in fitting up the
grounds and in building clubhouse.
lockwood Barrett Of Rutland, who has
contracted for the purchase of the plant OF
he Burlington Manufacturing company has
put portion Of the plant In active opera
Ron. About Is men will be employed for the
present.
The Norman Williams public library at
Woodstock has outgrown its present quar-
:ers and an addition is to be made to the
building that will about double the shelf
capacity.
George Howard Of Brockton, Mass, was
the lowest OF several bidders on Mont
pelier's new schoolhouse. His bid was $27,-
Ryegate, *33, $40.
Montpelier taxpayers settle promptly as
he following shows Out OF a total Of tax
list of 10000. all but $1,000 was paid into
the city treasury. or the PIG deinquents,
c4O are poll tax payers.
DR.. W. Seward Webb has bought the large
bay coach horse shown ut Howard park fair
by I. D. Clifford. The animal stands II
hands high and will be used to match ons
now owned by DR.. Webb.
The body of Mrs William Il. Adkins was
Drought to Brattleboro from New Haven,
Conn, where she was recently killed by
fall from a thrdstory window. Her mother,
Mrs. Akley, lives in Brattleboro.
George A. Bruce OF .Mildlebury. while on
his bicycle collided with the team OF Julian
Thomas Of Salisbury, tearing a long CASH III
his right arm. In dressing the injury 20
stitches had to be taken in the wound.
The Rev. NJ. l.. Severance OF Bennington
has removed to Middlebury TO take up his
residence. He had been for IA years the
minister of the old First Church OF Benning-
ton. He graduated from Middlebury col.
lege in the class of SO.
Letters patent have been taken out by
vermonters as follows: John Z. Harris,
ward l.. Sibley, Bennington, eyelet; George
B. Wheeler, Bellows Fails, ,starching machine
and also one for alarm for rotary washing
machine.
PAPERS have been served on the town
clerk OF Stamford requiring the town OF
Stamford to show cause before the supreme
court at Montpelier why commissioners
should not be appointed to determine and
establish the town line between Stamford
and Readsboro.
William Freneau OF Montpelier has been
arrested for selling liquor. The charge is
that he sold an endless chain book gotten
up by Kentucky whiskey firm for the dis
posal OF its wares. This will be the first
trial Of a case of this kind in Vermont and
probably in New England.
At recent meeting of Company A,V.N.G.,
at Rutland Adjutant Henry Il. Dorr was
unanimously elected captain to NIL the va
cancy caused by the promotion OF Captain
H. E. Dyer to the rank Of major. Sergeant
Henry F. Sheldon was elected first lieuten..
ant and Sergeant Bert s. Hyland, second
lieutenant.
George N. Annis an essence pedder well
known In Vermont. committed suicide at
his boarding house in Barre recently by
shooting himself through the head with a
revolver. He was 65 years old and leaves q
widow and children In Lowell, Mass. The
suicide was caused by poor health and de-
spondency.
A cow owned by Charles Rice OF Wards
boro gave birth recently to calf with two
perfectly formed heads. The heads joine
at the jaw bone. one turning 10 the right
and the other to the left. The freak had
only three ears, one being between two
heads. The calf did not live. The body
will be mounted.
DIR. and Mrs. J. H. Linsley OF Burlington
sailed from New York for Rotterdam on
October IA. DR.. Linsley takes this trip
principally for his health. but he will visit
some Of the leading laboratories in Paris
and London before he returns. In his alb
sence the work at the state laboratory In
Burlington will go on as usual.
Nina Hunt Hayes. who was seriously in
jured in the cross country run OF the
Meadow Brook Hunt club, on Long Island.
is Vermont girl. Mrs. Hayes father lives
In Weathersfield. and is a brother Of the