Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1900-03-24

bans, w. O'Sullivan Of Montpelier,
Thomas Donahue of Graniteville,
Thomas Blair of Lyndonvllle, G.
Finnigan of Claremont, N. H., NJ.
Eagan of Lebanon, N. H., and ].
Thelien of Windsor were the guests
of Rev. E. &. Drouhin during the
forty hours devotion.
Miss Elsie Chase is at home from
Kimball Union academy.
Miss Margaret L. Johnson gave
an afternoon tea to her Sunday
school class Tuesday. Miss John
son goes Monday to New York and
from there sails for Paris in a few
days, in company with her uncle,
C,l. F. Z. Hatch. She expects to
be abroad about three months.
Ernest N. Smith writes to
Woodstock friend from Moorcroft,
Wyoming, that he is herding sheep
Is miles from a water tank and fol-
lowinga bunch of 5000 sheep around
on the range from sun up till sun
down and keeping the wolves from
eating them up. He has pup
named "Dewey" that does all the
work; he is a wonder with sheep.
Moorcroft is about 50 miles from
anywhere and is nothing but water
tank and section house. Ernest is
camped about Is miles from there
on dry creek. 1t gets cold out
there sometimes. The first day he
worked 70, the outfit it was 40 be-
low and he was out all day and was
nearly frozen out of the country.
The Country club had another
outing at the club house Thursday
evening. Several have been held
during the winter, snow shoeing be-
ing feature. which have been very
successful and much enjoyed by the
members of the club and their
friends.
Miss Bernice Fraser is visiting in
Hartland.
The will of Miss Sarah A.
Thatcher was admitted to probate
Friday, and number of Pomfret
and Woodstock relatives are bene-
ticiaries. The sum of $1,000 each is
bequeathed to Nancy E. Atwood,
George 7. Atwood, Mrs. Elvira I.
Rowland of Woodstock; Cora l..
Atwood and Nellie A. T. Dana OF
Pomfret. Charles II. English is
executor of the will.
Teams driven by Charles E.
Woods and John Powell. the latter
driving quite rapidly, collided near
Frcnch's corne, Thursday evening.
rhc shaft on Powells sleigh struck
Mrs. Woods arm but she was not
badly injured.
About May the postotfice de-
partment at Washington will be
ready to supply postmasters, for sale
to the public, small books of two
cent stamps interleaved with paraf-
fined paper to prevent premature
adhesion. The pages are of six
stamps each, making convenient size
to carry in the pocket or pocketbook.
Three different quantities of books
will be so furnished, one of twelve
two'cent stamps, one OF twenty fon,
two-cent stamps and one of forty
eight two-cent stamps. These Books
will have Il postage value of twenty
four, forty. eight and ninety-six cents,
respectively, and each book will be
sold at an advance OF one cent on
the stamp value to cover the cost of
binding.
n. l. Newton, whom the New
York Journal has named "the little
wonder from Vermont" is making
Il record. Four hundred athletes
were entered for the Twenty.third
Regiment sports held last Saturday
evening at New York. the special
scratch Gall start even)
race was the star feature. This
event brought together the best Of
the new long-distance cracks. Two
weeks ago, the sports in New York
city thought Newton would set
killing pace, but his chances were
not fancied, for they thought he was
a tritle short of training; but in the
New York Journals issue of the
dLv of the. race, it was "thought the
special thIee-mile race was between
"A. l.. Newton and ]. X. Baillie
of Pennsylvania" The latter was
brought out as the ''new wonder.'
He and four others quit when New
ton set the pace, ION the last half
mile, which he ran IN 2.oS. New
ton ran away from his field and fin.
ished in IS min., IS Sec, aad won
the best prize given at the meet,
viz, gold watch.
MISS ACKERMAN'S LECTURES.
Miss Jessie Alderman, the w. G..