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


bankrupt.
A Congregational church has been dedi
Gated at East Barre.
Mrs. Cone Of Hartford has organized
woman's club at Lebanon.
L. y. Porter Of Burlington has invente,
an electric car fender that fends.
The town OF Ludlow made II profit o
$o2O on Its liquor agency last year.
NJ. l.. Lowell. prominent citizen OF Rock
In CHAM, l. deal. II, was 73 years old.
G.. W. Cleveland of Barre was ejccte,
from Salvation Army meeting recently.
j. Il. Farrant of Newport. has "resur
rection plant, great novelty in this state.
Odd Fellows lodges are soon to be insti
tuted in Wiiiiamstown, Rochester and Win
hail.
The total indebtedness of Montpelier l.
sl5l. $50 an increase of Sl1, the pas
year.
l.. .. Brush of Underhill has bought II fin,
Jersey bull of the e. [. Hood farm, Lowell
Miss.
l.. p. Moody. who died recently at Wes
Newton. Mass. was formerly from Bellows
Falls.
Mrs. W. T. Morse of Barre was seriou-l,
injured by falling on IN icy sidewalk re-
Gently.
Maurice Johnson. Il Bethel hotelkeeper,
ha, been sent to Rutland for 30 days foI
liquor selling.
The Lincoln Iron Work of Rutland have
just shipped Il carload of stone working ma
chincry to California.
Mrs. Tilestone Stowe of West Brattleborn
Is reported very sick. She is 93 and has
been married G3 years.
I ;..,t ,,,,, ,,nv - N,nt
peiier will send power aud light for Bolton
Falls at $4,000 voltage.
The American flag stolen from l.. Bar,
Cross of Montpelier on Halloween night
was returned unharmed.
The city OF Barre Is endeuvoring to secure
two condemned cannon from the govern
ment for park ornaments.
Ernest Iytler. IL brother OF Mrs. | ii
Francisco of Rutland, was accidentally shot
recently u: Hightstown, Nd.
The third shoot of the Barre local clu,
last week was a success. W. II. and u. A
Eastman made the best scores.
Mrs. j. p. Dewey, formerly of Montpelier,
died recently ut Inverness, Fla. The re-
mains were buried at Montpelier.
The town of Worcester has been sued for
Sl94 for the board of l.. j. Holden while
confined in the Jail at Montpelier.
Lieut.. L. NJ. Barstow, L. s. ", who re-
Gently resigned his commission in the army,
has returned to his home in Shelhurne.
Mrs. George Tankard of Burlington has
sued John Lee. liquor dealer, for $l2O
damages caused by selling her husband liq-
uor.
G. NJ. Darling has bought the fast New
port trotter, "Red Elm.' The horse has
already earned $4,000 in purses and has a
record Of 2.1G Ii.
Edward Hutchinson of South Barre was
fined SIG 20 for intoxication. He disclosed
on Joseph Perlotti who was fined $S7.37.
All the fines were paid.
The tenement house of Mrs. Andrew
Brown OF Waterbury was destroyed by fire
recently. Mrs. Stone, the occupant, mar
rowly escaped suffocation.
Mrs. Eliza Irish Ray Donaldson, formerly
well known in the northern part of this
state, has just died at the home OF her son
in North Bangor. N. Y, aged 81 years.
The heating system Of the Mt. Kilburn
Wheel club at Bellows Falls has caused two
fires in the block in which the rooms are To-
Gated. and a man watches it nigh now.
$. Il. Coy, formerly of Bethel, and later OF
Bellows Falls, is the president of large
Wholesale paper and twine house that has
Just commenced business in New York city.
George NJ Ellis of Brattleboro,a a brakeman
on the B. 4 NJ, has sued that company for
S50. 900 damages for being run down by an
engine and badly injured in February, 1894.
Charles Hoyt, the noted playwright, who
was recently reported II total wreck mentally
and financially by the yellow journals, is at
st. Augustine, Fla, and rapidly improving
in health.
The new directors of tho Plain1eld cream
cry find it difficult to secure any one to act
rs manag, r IN account OF so much fault-lnd-
ing on the part Of the patrons. "There are
others"
David II. Hollister, who left Bennington
about 18 0 has been heard from. He Is liv-
from in over 30 yea:s 8, and 1t was supposed
that he was dead.
The death OF Serene W. Graves at Rut
land, Wis, is announced. He was born in
this country in October, 1910, and moved to
Rutland in 1874. where he has held many
important offices OF trust.
Rev. c. H Morse has accepted call to
the pastorate Of the Congregational church
at North Craftsbury. This field was for
merly occupied by Rev. Edward Wild, a we'll
known Vermont minister
Ten gallons of whiskey was conncated at
the Bethel depot recently by Sheriff spafrord
and Deputies Hoffman and Lowell OF White
River Junction. The owner OF the goods
did not appear to claim his freight.
John N. Norton, AZ, Of vergennes, is dead.
of the late Henry Horton Of that city. Mr..
Norton was postmaster from 1889 to 1898,
afterwards purchasing the city drug store.
George J. McMaster, roadmaster OF tho
Bennington Il Rutland railroad, and Miss
Katherine NJ. lockwood OF Bennington were
married recently. The couple are away on
bridal tour, the greater part OF which will
be spent in Havana.
George Craig, James Grey and William
Mccormick, formerly OF Northfleld, have
started in the granite business at st. George,
N. b. Aside from their plant they have
secured valuable quarry In close prox-
unity to their work.
A lodge OF sorrow was held recently by the
United Brethren lodge, No. 81, +. & A. NJ,
at White River Junction to honor the men,
Ory OF its dead members OF the past year.
They were Hon. Wheelock G.. Veazey. Hon.
Joseph G. Parker, $. H. Potter and J. Il.
Pierce.
Tha South Roy alton Woman's Relief corps,
No. 81. auxiliary to Orville Bixby post, No.
9}, was organized Nov. s, 1883. The treas
urer's report Jan. /, 1885, shows an aggre-
gate OF $877. "a from dues and other sources,
OF Wnlcn TIoSb4 mas De6n eXponueO Tor re-
lief and expenses Of the corps and $SS has
been presented to the post. The relief fund
on hand at present is $3461.
G.. H. Grimm & Co. OF Rutland have Just
received an order from A. A. Low OF New
York. brother of President Seth Low OF
Columbia university. for full outfit of sup
plies for the manufacture OF maple sugar.
Mr.. Lows sugar orchard Is located mt Horse
Shoe pond among the Adirondacks and con-
sists of nearly 1000 trees, being one of the
largest sugar orchards in tho country Four
large size champion evaporators and 1000
buckets and spouts will be used.
The town report Of Roy,lton shows that
the debt has been lessened $4637.93 in the
past year. The town indebtedness now is
reduced TO S3l5.0l. the highway account
stands $500 and the school account Sl2l2.-
32. The South Royalton graded school is
not included In this. being kept entirely sep
arate. 1t has an Indebtedness Of $4,000 which
is expected to be lifted In II little over one
year. Since the graded school has been es-
tablished. modern school building has
been erected, new grounds added, and the