Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1900-12-29

birds and animals will he novelty,
and the Belgian hares from w. A,
Shedd's rabbitry at Nashua, \. H.,
will he another special attraction.
The late afternoon train Saturday
took fifty passengers out of White
River Junction. Some of them were
for Quechee and Dewey's Mills, but
n large proportion of them were
bound for Woodstock. This is as
large number as any summer train
ever carried
Ralph w. Boycc and Ralph NJ.
Tcwksbury are at home from Bos-
ton for the HOLIDAYS.
Mr.. and MIS-. &. X. Cummings of
White River Junction spent Christ
mas dav with Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Dcanc.
There has been skating on the
mill pond the past week-not very
good, but good enough to attract
small boys and some .rowr ones.
Miss Hamilton. of the local tele-
phone exchange, i, spending Il vacn-
ton OF two weeks in Burlington.
!. y. Marble Of New York is
spending the week mere,
DR.. Geo. II, SplIIer, optician, will
b" at !. {. \u,tiAg's ian. :, and /.
in Briderwatcr Ian '.
y big coon chained up IN one
corner OF +, . Farrcllv's black
sni'h shop the other day was caught
BY ErN in Fraser on Hedgehog
brook. a mink trap did the husi.
ness. The coon weighs - pounds
and not of AN amiable disposition.
{. II. Desc and L. III. Blossom
were IN Plymouth day or two last
week looking tor pickerel in Nine
yah p"nl. they chopped holes in
the ice and hshed and tiShed, but
either The weather was against them
or the Nincvah pickelel We're taking
Il da> off, for they made only Il mod |
est catch. Old fishermen told them
that the fish wouldn't bite when the
snow on the ice WAS melting, and
that WAS their experience.
\ new time table goes into effect !
on the Woodstock railway January
/. The early morning train and
No. $. leaving Woodstock at 1870
p. M, are taken off. There are six
trains dail> on the new schedule, the
outgoing trains leaving at $50 a.
m, ..SS p m. and $50 p. m. In
coming trains arrive ut SIS II. M,
IS minutes later than last winters
schedule, ,...5 p. IN. and 5 p. m.
NlSS hau'ic lO"llScnu is teaCn-
in school in TIE Broskwav district
in Hartford.
Among the holiday guests at TIE
Inn aie VIM. II. Owen, IT,. &. l..
Peabody and daughter, Miss Temp,
of New York Mrs. +. X. Greene.
Mio- M.ll"ck. Ah,ut,.,l, Nj. .u,u
Mrs. Brrtram II. Borden, New
I",k MIR. and Mrs. Eliot Hubbard,
Eliot Hubbard, Ir., W. NJ. Cabot,
Mrs. Charles HAYDEN. Miss HAYDEN.
Horace H. Stanton. Boston; Miss
Mabel K. Gcrow. Philadelphia.
The ladies' afternoon whist cub
meets with Mrs. ". ". Miller in
P"mlrrl today.
the New England Telephone
c1 HDalt has lately connected West
Hartford and North Pomi,ct bv
Wire and there is II Nv direct cnnnec-
ton n"twcen Woodstock and the
latte, point. 1'ae old line between
North Pnmlret and West Hartford
was taken out during the rebuilding
of the compan>'> line last spring,
cutting of Npr,h lomiret entirely
unit! tive recent completion of the
work
SOME INDUSTRIES THAT WOODSTOCK
MIGHT HAVE.
In New York. i;o>t0n. Chicago,
pl iladclphia and other cities are
schools and guilds of arts-and-cratts,
art-ani. craft societies. and art-and-
craft stores. At the schools NAV be ;
learned design aud the technical de- {
tail OF such things as wood carving,
leather work. namcnta metal (
work. book binding, etc. At the
tr:-anl-craft stores the outpHt of the
societies and OF til individual mem
)ers is put on sale, under favorable ;;
where they are not
into unfortunate competi-
ion with poor machine products.
The lesson for Woodstock from +
he above is to this effect: that here
also could be established modest in :
tlustries, calling for the use of ar +
:istic knowledge and skill and pa
ience in detail. Much OF the en-
,rgy that now goes into emb, oidcrv ~