Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1900-07-14

park is being torn up by Commits
sioner Lockwood preparatory to put
ting in section of permanent road.
Work of this kind is gradually doing
II great deal for the improvement of
the streets of the village.
A little fire in the grass on Mt.
Peg threatened some trouble July
4th but it was stamped out before it
spread far. Another blaze started
on the Slayton property not far from
S. ID. Heath's house last Saturday.
An alarm was turned in, but this fire
was also prevented by some lively
work from doing much damage.
The ladies of the Christian church
gave an ice cream party Friday even
ing.
Miss Evelyn Darling went to Clar-
emont, n. H., this week to attend
the summer school there. She is
also to be one of the instructors 1T
the Vermont Summer School for
Teachers, which will be held at
Hyde Park from July g to August
4, under the management of Mason
S. Stone, State superintendent of
education. Miss Evelyn Fuller, who
is now in Rochester, will attend il
summer school at Plymouth, n. II.
The first afternoon tea of the sea-
son at the club house of the Wood
stock Country club was given Thurs
day from 4 to 6 o'clock. The invi-
tation was general one, but bad
weather prevented many from enjoy
ing the hospitality of the club.
"Thc Voters Manual for 1900" is
a valuable booklet of political infor-
nation issued by the Mutual Life In
surance company, copy of which
The Age has received from Edwin
Davis, agent, of White River juno
ton:
Clarence Watkins of New York
is with his father, c. &. Watkins,
and is quite i'll.
Miss Margaret Bartlett went to
Burlington Thursday to spend the
summer.
The drouth continues, occasional
showers and delusive thunCerclaps
not providing all the water needed
by the parched earth. However, all
is not vet lost, a good hay crop tall
ing to the lot of the farmer this year
and fruit of all kinds is abundant.
Charles Batchelder went to Bur
lington this week with A. E. Wat
son of Hartford, there to join the
board of state railroad commissioners
in their annual tour of inspection of
the railroads in Vermont. Mr..
Batcheder is clerk of the board.
Mrs. D. {. Gllingham of Chicago
is at +. II. Gillingnam's for few
weeks.
Mrs. Henrietta w. Packard of
Chicago is the guest Of Mrs. A. Z.
Bartlett. Mrs. Packard is we'll
known painter in oils and water
colors, and her pictures have been
frequently seen in exhibitions. She
is a pupil of Chase, Shiraw, and
other American artists and she has
also studied in Paris.
Austin U. Winslow of Richmond
was in town Friday with his family,
he will spend his vacation here later
Wade Reyes writes to Il friend
here from Berlin that he and David
Montague have just reached that city
after ''doing' Holland very thorough
ly. They will later go to London
and Paris.
J. Winslow Pierce is the guest of
Joseph Rhodes at Maplewood farm.
Pupils in the Branch school,
Alice X. Hewitt teacher, having no
marks in the register for the term
Just closed were Lena NJ. Fletcher,
Roy and Karl Houghton, Bertha and
Corneia Lang, and Eva, Robert and
Ernest Perkins; those absent two
DAYS or less, GIee Blanchard, Ethel
lloughton, Alfred Morgan and Clara
Richardson. There were three tardy
marks during the term.
Engineer Henry Harding of Hart.
land, who will superintend the con.
struction of the South Branch sewer,
has begun the preliminary work of
stalking the line. He is assisted by
f. ID. Chandler.
Windsor county court adjourned
for the term Friday afternoon, til ere
being little business done after dis
posing of the Shaws' cases.
,, Louis Marie! has nearly complet-
cd the painting and decoration of the
opera house, and as soon as other
material arrives, which is expected
TODAY, the work will be finished at