Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1900-11-03
IN AND ABOUT WOODSTOCK

Seats for "Sidc Tracked" will be
on sale ut Clark's Monday morning.
Cot. +. c. Hatch ot New York is
in town this week. arriving Tues
dLv.
Billings farm is setting out about
seven thousand small pine trees this
fall. Most OF them are on the
Joseph Mackenzie place, the trees
set ont there Il year ago having died,
\ lumber of trees have also been
planted ON the hill back of the golf
links. The trees came from the
northern part of the state, Miller &
House of Bcehc PLAN being the
shippers.
The play. Joshua Simpkins,"
drew full house Tuesday evening.
1t is intensely rural, us advertised,
with several quaint characters to
sustain the humor throughout the
piece. The buzz saw appeared in
the third act, accompanied by thun-
der, lightning and red fire. Here
the hero is tied to II log hv the very
disagreeable villain and is about to
be worked up into short lengths
when Uncle Josh rushes to the res
cue. There were several good
songs and the company'S orchestra
played quite acceptably. The tca-
lures of the piece received plenty OF
applause and the audience seemed
greatly pleased with the whole en-
tertainment.
The addition to the golf links ON
the Billings estate was recently com.
plctcd and the course is now one of
the finest in this Part of New Eng
land. There are nine holes, us be-
fo,c, but the course is now c.nsid-
eraby longer. \ stone club house,
with Il broad piazza running around
it, is to be built on the links.
The River street sewing school
opens today Saturday at p. M.
1t is desired to make this the most
successful season of the school, as it
will be if friends combine to send a
little money or material to Mrs. Nj
b. Vaughan at the school house or
at Mrs. Murdock'S.
With few minor changes in tine
the present train scrvice--four trains
daily each way-will be continued
until further notice on tho Wood
stock railway. The early morning
tram now leaves here at 6 o'clock
and the first mail reaches here at
$50. The afternoon train formerly
leaving at $50 now goes 10 minutes
later.
+. W. Wilder is in Boston,
Capt and Mrs. Elton \. Smith
are in Smithv,lle, y. !.
DR.. Henry Bovnton delivered his
lecture, "From Marathon to Water
loo" before the Franklin County
Teachers Institute at st. Alban, last
week Friday evening.
John Dean of Barnard is the guest
OF Mr., and Mrs. Charles Dean.
y telegram was received Thurs.
day afternoon announcing the sud-
den death of Charles Amsdcn of
Amsden. father of Mrs. {. +. Wood
raft, in Detroit, Mich, Thursday
morning. No particulars are yet
known beyond fine fact that MIR.
Amsdcn was found dead in bed.
He was 6S years of age. He was
MAJ we'll known here and through
out the county and has always been
very prominent in Il affairs of his
town. Mr.. and Mrs. Woodruff left
Friday morning for Amsden, and
MIR. Amsdens body is expected to
arrive there today. Mr.. Ansden
had been in Detroit for some time
settling up the affairs of his brother
in.law's estate. His wife died sew
eral years ago while on Il visit in the
West
Since the gas works shut down
eight private gas machines have
been installed in this village. Two
new ones are being put in--one for
q. +. Farwelrs house and one for
81. IameS church and the rectory.
+. :. Payne is moving this week
from West Woodstock into the tene-
mcnt on River street which he re-
Gently bought.
Mr.. and Mrs. John ID. Foster and
daughter returned to Lynn, Mass,
Thursday.