Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-12-14
News of Woodstock.

INCWS VI VOOuSlUCN,
Cunningham American Gentle
man
Mrs. Charles ]. Mckenzie of
Franklin, Mass, has been quite i'll
"A at the home of her mother, Mrs.
EIiakim johnson, but is now re-
ported much better. Drs. E. Il.
Utlcy ancl +. G. Shattuck Of Boston
were called here in consultation W 18th
DR.. Logan last week, Dr.. Shattuck
returning at once to Boston.
Deputy Sheriff Thomas found Il
man lying unconscious in the rear
of G. w. Sayward's shop last week
4 Thursday. He was stupehed with
4 drink and doubtless would have died
of cold and exposure if he had been
N left there much longer. He passed
the night in Jail. He came from
u Ludlow as Il witness in court case,
n and Joy at his arrival in Woodstock,
" or some other reason, had induced
4 a jubilation that nearly proved fatal.
|. and L. |. Benson shipped two
handsome pairs of three-yearS-old
steers to the Boston market Monday
one weighing 400 and the other
5000 pounds, They were sold to
"a Sturtevant, Haley Il Co. and will
&C. hung up in Faneuil Hal! market
as a holiday show of Vermont
grown bvef.
4 The Methodist church has ar
anged for fine entertainment Of
life motion pictures on Monday
evening, Dec. 10. The Ladies Aid,
under whose auspices the entertain
ment is given, is having Il good
advance sale of tickets and Il good
audience is thus assured
Il Erwin Fraser and Royal Perkins
Ygathcrcd in tour coons on recent
holiday, the capture not receiving
at the time quite the attention it de
served. The coons were found in Il
cave on Teago ''mountain"-the
reago which slants up from the
highway at South Pomfret at slight
variation from the vertical and from
whose top stone can be dropped
into the road below. 1t is steep.
Both men are good hunters and Err
wm had his dog Jeff (rhomas JEFF
ttson), who holds his own with
amy coon dog of size on all occa
lions. The coons were discovered
addlcd together in one of Teago's
Nes, but Jeff paved and scratched
Nound for minute, found a hole
nd by Il rapid flank movement got
grip on the biggest coon IN the lot.
hcv came out in a hurry and heed
ss of danger the coon and dog in
tight clnch rolled down rcago S
he TO, good hundred yards, over
nd over, 'howling, biting, scratch
and making more noise than
nth Pomfret's last cyclone. Jeff
Rded on top, of course. lie had
rady killed one of the coons which
been poked out within reach
ID the hunters finished the othe,
o with revolver.
The Norman Williams public
Drary has recent, added IS vol
ne> of fiction and about sixty vol
Mes of biography, travel, history,
and literature. The fiction in
de> the latest works OF Cyrus
mnsend Brady, Anthony Hope,
lph Connor, S. r. Crockett, "
Jacobs and Mary Z. Wilkins.
bong the other volumes are tie
Se of Argylls Life of Queen Vic
a,'"A Sailors Log by Capt
d Evans, and "Lives of the
hted," by Ernest Sexton-Thomp'
george Aiken, member of the
'e Board of Agriculture, will
aA at the farmers mectings, which
Fin next week, on "A Good Dairy
pe."
telephones have been put in the
rnces of b. $. kittredge, Har.
), Dsnd, Mrs. Nj. G. Hunt and
u Fuller,
/, and Mrs. S. L. k,lncr are a,
in New York from trip tc
Sand. Mr.. kilncr was here 4
this week, his son Ehrick re.