Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-03-21

Massachusetts this week. He ha
been working in Byfeld and Spring
field for several months.
l.. p. Emery has leased one of O
a. Whitcomb's tenements on The
Howe place, River street.
A special train took about dozer
couples to the dance at White River
Junction Tuesday evening.
Capt. Elton A. Smith arrived
from Smithville, n. j., Fiida.
morning and is at Cloudland farm
for few days.
Commissioner Lockwood with
his gang and the road machine were
at work on the main streets yester-
day The roa'ls are fast drying up
and the first bicycles We're ont FRI.
day.
There was no formal observance
Of st. patrick's day here, but wear.
crs of the green We're quite numer-
Gus and some loud bits of color were
seen here and there.
Mrs. O. b. laquith, librarian of
tie Norman Williams public library,
reports that 1858 books were
loaned during the year 1902 to co.
500 persons. The largest number
OF books issued in one month was
,.67 in August, this showing that
summer visitors avail themselves of
the privileges of the library to a
considerable extent About three.
foulths of tue hooks loaned by the
library are fiction. I3,444 volumes
being issued in the twelve months.
OF juvenile books loaned, also
largely fiction, there were 1923 VOL
umcs, leaving $40 volumes from all
other departments of literature out
of 4 total of 2a,595. The borrowers
last wear were from dozen or more
states, Canada and France.
The water gardens on Billings
farm will he enlarged this season.
The sun came out good and strong
Thur>da, and the day was the
wa,mcst # the season up to this
date. Weather Recorder Eaton's
thermometer registered o5 degrees
above zero The day was unfavorn-
bic for Il good flow of sap in most
sugar orchards, but at Reed Broth
err, place there was a big run and
they gathered forty or fifty barrels
Friday morning. At Cloudland
farm the buckets were pretty we'll
FLIED, too. and TWENTY-FIVE OF Il irty
barrels of sap were gathered.
The Dutton place on South street,
the High school grounds,
nas been bought for $1,000 by the
school committee appointed at the
asst town meeting. and it will be
used as Il site for the building which
5 to take the place of the River and
street school houses. Plans tor the
,ew structure will be secured us soon
is possible.
Life will be made worth the
of humdrum existence it
iou visit Music Hall Thursday even
ny. March IS, and enjoy the jolliest
'vening of Il twelfth month. The
attraction will be the latest musical
success, "The Real Widow
Brown with a select coterie of
nerrymakerS. The entertainment
5 of the liveiest sort, and the COM
>anv is one Of exceptional merit.
l., +. Weymouth and &. F. In
gals, who have been doing business
lndel the firm name of The l.. L |
Weymouth Furniture Co., have dis
solved partnership, Mr.. Ingalls res
iring. Mr.. Weymouth will con-
niue the business at the same stand. |
Postmaster Chapman has received
rom the Mckinley National Me-
mortal Association limited supply
If the certificates which have been
tor distribution to contrib
ltors to the monument fund as
souvenirs of their anticipation in
hat great enterprise. The certifi-
cate is Il beautiful work of art, on
which is given an excellent repro
luction of Mrs. Mckinley'S favorite
LIKENESS of her husband, together
With picture OF the Mckinley
nome in Canton and of the White
House. The wording below the
Illustrations is as follows: "This
;ertitics that - -- has con-
'i"uted to the fund for the erection
Al the national memorial at Canton,
ohio, in honor Of William Mckin.
ev.' The workmanship and artis-
ic effects are Of the very highest
order, the great house of Tiffany &
o., New York, being the designers
md manufacturers. The supply in
he hands Of Postmaster Chapman /
5 a portion OF the first edition of the |
certificates and is sent here to enable
hose who have not as vet contrib