Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-01-28
m AND ABOUT WOODSTOCK

IN AND ABOUT WOODSTOCK.
Walter Wood, who has been until
.cently clerk IN Morgan's drug
orc, and very popular with its
atrons, went to Lowell, Mass.
Wednesday,.
Two months of the finest kind of
.eighing beginning Thanksgiving
az, uninterrupted by Il resort to
,heels, is quite unusual even during
Vermont winter and livery men
ay that the like hasn't been seen for
ears. Three or four times thaw
las threatened to ruin the sleighimg
tut Il freeze has as often saved it, as
t has the past week.
AT the meeting of the managers of
he Windsor County Fair association
ast week it was voted to appropriate
$500 for new floral hall provided
/ Hike sum is raised by subscription.
George .Aitken, Frederick Chapman
and +. w. Wilder are the members
Of the committee chosen to solicit
subscriptions. 1t is believed that
the necessary sum can be raised
without much trouble. A new hall
is badly needed. The present build
inG does not afford sufficient space
for exhibits, and Mr.. Lockw wood also
stated at the meeting that he be-
lieycd il to be unsafe.
Miss Grace Day left Wednesday
for Boston, Gardner and Worcester,
Mass, for months visit.
a. ii. Townsend lost one of his
handsome chestnut team Friday
nipht-a valuable ANIMAL and one
not easily replaced. The team.
drN en- by Earle Slack, was coming
upRthc north side of the river when
one of them plunged forward, ran Il
few rods at brcakneck speed, and
fell dead. Heart disease was proba-
BIZ the cause of his death. The
h0rse was the better one of the pair
and the loss is quite a severe one for
Mr.. Townsend.
II. l.. Adams is expecting to re-
c4>c Il Mauser rifle today, one OF
SNcral thousand that were surren-
Erred at Santiago. 1t will be inter
Sting to see what sort of "A weapon
Tie Spaniards turned on the Amer,-
ems and the lirc-arm will I've valu-
able relic of the late war.
MIR. and Mrs. Frank Payne and
MI. and Mrs. ID. L. Washburn of
Eelchvillc spent Saturday and Sun
6y here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Ives
Vent to New York Monday and
Giled from there Thursday for
4 Europe. Miss Mary +. Collamer
accompanied them to New York for
4 few days stay.
# a party of friends of the local
hinstrcls attended their entertain
lent and dance at Felchvillc last
vening.
z The Woodstock Home Ministries.
fifteen people, went to Felchv,llc
Yesterday to play Il one-night's en-
gement at that place. The t,av-
6hng company includes the ''Nlanila
Twins" Lewis Pierce and Clyde
Hart, four end men and most of the
I'D favorites, and the flight into
Reading is expected to add to the
lstre of its fame.
q The famous eagle which gave the
ld Eagle hotel its name and adorned
be building for sixty years or more,
ras taken from its perch above the
Entrance to the Inn Thursday. 1t
i'll be taken first to the photogra-
hers and then be regilded before
esuming its place. The faithful
ird is now 90 years old. having
cen carved in 1890 by Moody
Heath, a wood-carvcr in the cmplov
II Fisher * Mclaughlin, and occu-
ics its more prctcntious perch with
much dignity as it did when il
vas boss of the old Eagle hotel.
y local sportsman calls attention
IN act passed ny the last lcgisla-
rc in relation to the trapping Of
c,tain fur-bcaring animals. Trapped
mi mails suffer enough under any
circumstances, and it is to be hope,
bat this new law will be vigorously
reinforced. The act, which took ef.
ect from its passage, reads as fol.
lows:
'Sec.ion /. Any person engaged