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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-06-06
| OF Woodstock.

Campbell Of Chicago il
Harriet F. Rice is visiting
bid Mrs. r. G. Putnam re-
the parsonage Tuesday.
ing's Daughters will meet
J. W. H. Bradley this even
III Mrs. Charles J. Ives OF
kpids, Ia, are at the Inn. -,
lucy Z. Fairbanks is at home
South 70, the summer.
Whitney Of Boston was in
week.
!. N. Billings arrived this
companied by Mrs. Dew
ton.
Mrs. VIM. N. Bailey of
are visiting Mrs. Julia
|. T. Morrill, will exchange
bmorrow with Rev. Mr..
Il Hartland.
BID Mrs. &. E. Woodruff
Detroit, Mich, Tuesday
k absent a month or two.
Hudson is verv i'll at
le., with typhoid pneu-
his mother, Mrs. Lewis
now with him.
Mrs. H. B. Johnson and
Mrs. w. F. Bridge were
New York arrivals at the
Hay.
E. kilner, Miss Mollie
brick Kilner, and Miss
rrison arrived from New
lay and arc at the kilner
Aitken attended p. S.
nual Memorial day sale
cattle at Cooperstown,
|eturned TUESDAY, Miss
E.ompanying him home
York.
nnett-Moulton Co. did a
Jess at Music hall, bury
ain for the last time Sat-
ling in the presence of the
Hence of the week. The
plays at Woodsville, N. H.,
citing of the county ex-
pa on Saturday with Supt.
hger it was decided to hold
hools opening July al
ping two weeks in Bar.
ph. Townsend, Burling-
ille and Chester.
pcks Of sheep have lately
m the attacks OF dogs.
horning three Billings
were killed on Hilltop
dogs are said to have
ICED, but Of course are
b prove an abb. Tues.
Fcek dogs got into M. !.
Hook on the South road
found killed and badly
Seven of the same flock
esing, but whether they
or are still running Mr..
doesn't know. A dog
fg J. J. Kneen's sheep the
but a charge of buck shot
his raid right away. Shot
ut and the lives Of dogs
to the bed post all night
nth much.
II and vigor come of good
digested. Force a
rye wheat and barley
no burden, but sustains, !
tnvigorates."
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-06-06

States whose names appear on
neither battle ship nor monitor are
Delaware, Montana, North Caro-
lima, North Dakota and Utah.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-06-06

|Nily-Sundays excepted. Flag
Trains Nos. 8, 6 and y stop on
|pany reserve the right to cancel
but notice.
]. G. PORTER.
Genera! Manager.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-06-06
FORESTS ON FIRE.
Threatening Fires In Bridgswatsr,
Reading and Other Towns. 500
Cords Of Wood Destroyed.

Smoke from many forest fires hung
over Woodstock like dense fog
Thursday morning and not until
night did the air begin to clear up.
It was the yellowest day since the
great "yellow day" Of years ago.
From Bridgewater came the first
report of forest fire, our corre-
spondent writing Thursday:
One OF the fiercest forest fires ever
known in this section has been rag
ing since Wednesday forenoon in
F. S. Mackenzie's wood lot near
Ben Smiths. A large gang of men
| is fighting it night and day to keep
it from burning wood that is cut and
piled. 1t has already burned about
500 cords and there is about 500
cords more that they are trying to
save. AT the best, it will be q great
loss to Mr.. Mackenzie, who WIS
having the wood cut for use vt the
mill here. Stand,ng timber was not
greatly damaged.
FIRE UNDER CONTROL.
Word came Thursday evening
that the fire in the Mackenzie lot
WAS headed off in this direction, end
ing with the destruction of 500
cords of cut wood. From 20 to IS
acres of land was burned over and
the fire, as far as can he learned, is
now working into Reading.
Another fire. started at Reading
pond and burning toward South
Reading, is also said to have been
checked.
FIRE IN SHERBURNE.
1t is reported that the fire in Sher-
burne which has been burning near
P,co pond has reached this side of
the mountain and has come near
enough the Woodstock and Rutland
stage road to pearly or quite smoke
out the people who have charge of
the station near the top OF the noun
tain, where the horses are changed.
FIRE FIGHTERS WORKED HARD.
A large number of men from
Bridgewater were out fighting the
flames on Mackenzie's lot and the re-
turning heroes were hard-looking
lot, tired, dusty and smoky. They
worked without intermission from
Wednesday morning until Thursday
night, what food they had being sent
from the village. Hose and n.y.
drants were not to be had up that
WAY and the fire was checked only
BY the digging Of trenches and the
active use bt hoes and shovels.
ON AscUrNEY MOUNTAIN.
BY way Of Felchville it is reported
that there is fire OH Ascutney
below Amsden.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-06-06
Business Notices.

SALE-House, barn and
Tres of land, known as the
Osmer place, ON the bank
across the river from Taits-
t., railroad station Ad-
William NJ. Kendall, box
leicester, N. II.
37-4I
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-06-06

bODSTOCk RAILWAY.
TIME TABLE.
A. 7 O'Clock q. m. July 10, 1909.
3oIHa EAST.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-06-06
At THE RACES.

The Memorial day races under the
auspices of the Woodstock Driving
club drew II crowd that filled the
grand stand. There were several
close and interesting heats, but the
slump in the entries married the
days sport somewhat, to the disap.
pointment of all concerned.
American Boy took the green race
after brush with Oddmark, who
was withdrawn after the first heat,
the grey horse going off like vet
Gran at Starter Farrelly's word. The
buck-jumping of "Pnt's" Unknown
at the wire in the third heat pleased
the crowd, too.
Frank Muzzy had too much speed
for Jock Bowen, up behind Fanny
w likes in the free-to.zll, and had
considerable time to spare after the
first heat.
In the a.4o race Bird, the winner,
who didn't get the hang of her hop
Piles, tell in the third heat, turning
somersa,,lt which threw her
driver head first to the ground. No
damage was done in the mixup
however, and Bird circled the track
a few minutes. later.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-06-06

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Walker; Congregational, George
E. Thompson, assistant superin-
tendent, o. A. Whilcomb, Miss
Johnson; Methodist, Sumner Sher.
burne, superintendent, Miss Clara
K'dder, 0. II. Waite; Christian,
Rev. M. 7. Morrill,, superintendent,
DR.. A. F. Moore, Mrs. G. H.
Vaughan; Taitsville Sunday school,
Mrs. Nichols, superintendent.
AT the meeting of the committee
an organization was formed, of
which o. A. Whitcomb is chairman
and Mrs. Geo. H. Vaughan secre.
tary. A subcommittee of three,
consisting OF DR.. "A. F. Moore,
Miss Johnson and Miss Julia Slack,
was appointed by the chairman to
nominate officers for a permanent
organization. The names of these
officers and the draft of a constitu.
ton presented by the state associa
tion' are to be acted upon at meet.
ing to be held later by representa-.
tives of the Sunday schools here
which desire to join the local asso-
citation.
The woods are burning in many
directions and the utmost caution in
the use of fire and matches is as nee.
essary in the arid wastes of this vi.
cinitv as elsewhere. 1t takes very
little to start a blaze anywhere in
town or field and any carelessness
might be serious matter.
Middletown transcript., 1903-07-18
BOOM FOR JUDGE GRAY

PoTTsvILLE, Pa, July 12th-The min
ers o. the Philadelphia and Reading Coal
and Iron Company at the meetings held
to-day were jubilant over prospects that
they will be receiving SO per cent. addi-
tion to their wages by the time the full
season opens.
The quiet boom among the anthracits
miners of Judge George Gray of Della.
ware for President is assuming tangible
shape.
A canvass of officers of the mine work.
ers' locals shows that great majority Of
these, who are Democrats, favor Judge
Gray's nomination. Since the collapse
of the Cleveland boom, the adherents Of
both Cleveland and Bryan have united
in praise of Judge Gray, and it is ex-
pected that the latter will be endorsed
for President at the approaching Schuyl-
kill County Democratic Convention.
The Hon. James B. Reilly, a promi-
nent Democratic leader, who served in
the lower house of Congress while Judge
Gray was in the Senate and who later. as
United States marshal for the Eastern
district of Pennsylvania, came into close
contract with him, said tonight that he
considered Judge Gray's availability and .
would land him in the Presi-
Dental chair if he were nominated.
Middletown transcript., 1903-07-18
NEW FORM OF WORSHIP

A new form of public worship for the
Methodists was adopted at Ocean Grove
on Wednesday at conference between
representatives of the Methodist Episco.
pal Church and the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South. Bishop S. W. Merrill,
of Chicago, was chairman of the joint
committee. The new form is as follows:
Let all our services begin exactly at
the time appointed, and let all our peo-
pie kneel in silent prayer OIL entering
the sanctuary
First - Voluntary, instrumental or
vocal
Second - Singing from the common
hymnal, the people standing.
Third-The Apostles Creed, recited by
all, still standing.
Fourth-Prayer, concluding with the
Lords Prayer, repeated audibly by all,
both minister and people kneeling. (A.)
Fifth-Anthem or voluntary.
Sixth-Lesson from the Old Testament,
which, if from the Psalms, may be read
responsively. (B.)
Seventh-The Gloria Patri
Eighth-Lesson from the New Testa-
ment
Ninth-Notices, followed by the collec-
ton. during or after which an effertory
may be rendered.
Tenth-singing from the common hymn
nal, the people standing.
Eleventh-The sermon.
Twefth-Prayer, the people kneeling.
Thirteenth-Singing from the common
hymnal, the people standing. (The order
of prayer and singing may be reversed.
co.
Fourteenth-Doxology and the Apos-
tolic Benediction. (II Cor xiii, IL
(A)-Let all our people be exhortsd to
kneel in prayer, keeping their faces to-
ward the minister.
(B)-In the afternoon or evening the
lesson from the Old Testament may be
omitted.
(C)-An invitation to come to Christ,
or to unite with the church, shall be
given when the hymn is announced.
As adopted the ritual does not differ |
very much from the present order of
worship in the NJ. E. Church, but it |
makes several changes in the ritual of
the Southern Church.
Middletown transcript., 1903-07-18
MAKE GOOD WIVES
BY HARRIET A. ARMSTRONG.

While it is the husband modelled on
old-fashioned lines who prefers his wife
to be doll, the up-to-date suiter gener.
ally wants good comrade as we'll as a
wife, and he therefore searches for
mate, in every sense of the word, when
he contemplates matrimony. He knows
that though there are girls SO badly bal
anced mentally as to fly from one ex-
treme to another, and when interested
in money-making to be unable to bend
an appreciatiye eye upon clothes, to say
nothing of such paltry details as food and
the comforts of home, such anomalies are
easily to he detected. individuals so
useless as they are, from his point of view
he avoids. The girl upon whom he con-
centrates his attention is the all-around
intelligent, charming, industrious and ca
pable kind of creature so common in
these days of universal cultivation.
Women who were earning their own
living were at one time considered to be
placing themselves, without any hope of
reinstatement, beyond the pale of matri-
mony.
Old-fashioned aunts were convinced
that the strong-willed nieces who would
not sit by the fire and spin in a state of
miserable dependence upon an over
worked father or a struggling young bro
ther, but instead preferred to brave the
world and do battle with it, to secure an
honorable independence were never
likely to attract husbands and homes.
And for a while these short-sighted
croakers were right. Men did fight shy
of girls in harness. They said they were
sure not to be able to make the bread as
mother made it or darn the socks SO as to
compete with her standard of perfection.
Wherefore they concentrated their affec-
ton upon the fuffy-headed community,
who either had to be obliged by circum-
stances to become bread-winners, or nat
urally shy and retiring, to say nothing of
being also indolent and lacking in per-
sistency, made home their cloister. And
the croakers, when they were snapped
up and their more energetic sisters were
feft neglected, cf1orused, II told you sc"
But now reaction has set in, and the |
business girl who is attractive is not left !
long at the desk or in the shop. She is
induced by some wise man to enter into
q matrimonial partnership that shall
wed to the vitality important duty of see
ing that the potatoes are properly boiled
and the newly washed shirts receive their
'ull complement of buttons, realization
If her husbands affairs, with every en-
,ouragement to further his ambitions by
I'll the means in her power. In some
,ases she takes an active share in the
noney-making scheme, while in others
is merely by her sagacity that her hus-
,and's cause benefits.
Middletown transcript., 1903-07-18
DELAWARE NOTES

Not more than two-thirds OF the usua
crop OF wheat is being harvested in Kent
County.
| r. s. Monck has been elected presi.
dent of the Wilmington Building Trades
| Council.
A large attendance is expected at the
meeting of the Delaware State Press AS
sociation at Rehoboth to-day.
Frank J. Knuckert has resigned as as
sistant secretary Of the Wilmington
Young Mems Christian Association.
Wilmington retail clerks met Sunday
to form an organization to be affiliated
with one of the national labor bodies.
Because 50 many complaints have been
heard Of men insulting woman in the
streets, Wilmington City Court proposes
to fine all offenders S. and costs.
"Green goods" circulars are flooding
Wilmington, stating that the counter
feitu are made from plates stolen from
the Government by discharged employe
Tie house Of the Wilmington Rogue
Club was robbed the other night of three
sets of balls and mallets and articles
also taken from the house of the tennis
club, adjoining.
Joseph H. Bailey, Of Wilmington, is in
Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia, suf-
fering from conclusion of the brain, hav
ing been hurt in driving accident while
returning from Lenape.
While Thomas E. Malin, manager of
Shellpot Park, waved his arm to attract
the attention of man on trolley car
second car struck him and tore his arm
almost from the socket.
Hereafter all Civil Service examinations
in Wilmington will be conducted by
men from Philadelphia, but Walter ].
Young and Peter B. Ayars will be contin-
ued as secretaries OF the Postal and Gus
toms Boards respectively.
Enock Wovenski, recently shot by a
colored man who mistook him for one
of party of whites with whom they had
been quarreling, in Wilmington, is recov
ering from his wounds. The police have
not yet found his assailants.
Middletown transcript., 1903-07-18
C. W. MORSE LAUNCHED

The largest boat ever built in Will
mington was launched at the yards of
the Harlan & Hollingsworth Company at
1.30 o'clock Saturday afternoon. This
boat was the Charles w. Morse and she
is being constructed for the Peoples
Line which operates boats on the Hud-
son river between New York and Albany.
The big vessel left her ways at 1.30
o'clock and as she glided into the Chris
tiana Miss Anna Bell Englis, daughter
of the president of the line, broke a
bottle of champagne on her bow and
ehristened her the Charles w. Morse.
The launch was success in every way
and was witnessed by several thousand
persons. There were also present num-
Der of invited guests from New York and
Philadelphia.
The length of the vessel over the steel
hull is APO feet and the breadth over
guards 80 feet inches
Middletown transcript., 1903-07-18
EYE D0N'Ts

Don't use the eyes before breakfast.
Don't wear veil with black dots OF
one woven with double threads.
Don't neglect to bathe the eyes with
weak solution of warm salt water, espe
cially should they be inhamed.
Don't forget to wash the dust from the
eyelids every night before retiring.
Don't sleep SO that strong light will
fall on the eyes on awakening.
Don't waste your eyes by gazing at any
strong light, natural or artificial.
Don't put coored shades on your lights.
OF the co!ors green il the least harmful.
White or ground glass is best.
Don't sit facing n strong light. II pos
sible let it fall over your left shoulder.
Don't fail to remove cinder by gently
tiny caInel's hair brush dipped
in sweet oil across the eyeball.
Don't look too steady at flying objects
from the window of rapidly-moving
car, and don't allow cold, raw wind to
strike the eyes.
Don't rub the eyes away from the nose
rub gently toward it), and don't fail to
consult All occulist as soon as you need
eyeglasses.
Middletown transcript., 1903-07-18
WE WERE BOYS TOGETHER

We were boys together
And never can forget
The schoolhouse near the heather,
In childhood where We met;
The humble home to memory dear,
Its sorrows and its joys;
Where woke the transient smile or tear,
When you and were boys.
We were youths together,
And castles built in air,
Your heart was like feather,
And mine weighed down with care;
To yon came wealth with manhood's
prime,
To me it brought alloys
Foreshadowed in the primrose time.
When you and were boys.
We're old men together;
The friends we loved OF yore,
With leaves OF autumn weather,
Are gone foreyermore.
How hlest to age the impulse given,
The hope time ne'er destroys,
Which led our thoughts from earth to
heaven
When you and | were boys!
George Pope Morris.
Middletown transcript., 1903-07-18
FARMERS COMBINATION

The farmers of New Castle and other
counties might proftably consider the
feasibility of organizing a combination
similar to that now in successful operation
in the state of Iowa, the history Of which
is very entertainingly told in the July
number of the Century Magazine, SYM
opsis of which appeared editorially in.
the Baltimore Sun of a recent date.
The Iowa combination is based upon
the cooperative plan, somewhat similar
to the method or form of organization
heretofore adopted by the Grangers'
Unions. 1t seems thai the refusal of the
local dealers in farmers supplies to sell
them needed articles at fair prices and
to pay them the market price for their
products, led to its organization. They
did not think they were fairly treated as
individual producers, and determined to
compel equitable dealing by the COM
bined force of numbers, in this respect
initiating the example of nearly all lines
of traders with whom from necessity they
were compelled to deal.
The object of their organization was
not to to,demonstrate any merely specula-
tive or economic theory, but simply to
teach local monopolists that they as farm
ers, could conduct thsir business as
such, independently of any and all of
them. The five hundred farmers who
formed this combination, represent
combined capital of over four million
dollars, embracing the ownership of one
hundred and sixty farms, contained in
an area of about ten square miles.
After considering carefully, and matur-
ing their plans of organization, their frs
step was to secure the services of busi-
ness manager of integrity and capacity.
They secured the right man, and in ten
years, their business has increased from
100000 to 1924, ,251 900. There are no
profits. What the members look to is
the fact that they receive cash for their
produce at the highest market price and
buy their supplies at the lowest whole
sale price plus four per cent. added to
cover expenses.
"Once year," says the Century, ''the
company holds general meeting, during
which reports are made. There is but
little actual business to transact however,
for the members of the firm have been
transacting the business day by day all
through the year. There is no large sum
of accumulated profits to administer, no
surplus.to tempt to speculation. There is
no profits in the business save the profits
which accrue to each individual farmer,
month by month as he buys his necessa-
ries at wholesale and sells his products at
figures uniformly higher than the sur
markets. The company buys
agricultural machinery, fence wire, flour,
salt, fuel and other bulky articles. The
agent of the company buys at the lowest
wholesale rates large quantities of the z,
needed, selling these in turn to
the farmers at cost, plus the small per-
centage noted"
The subject is at least interesting to
and progressive farmers every
where, and the success of the Iowa "idea"
it to the study and investiga-
tion of all farmers organizations
Middletown transcript., 1903-07-18
MARYLAND NOTES

The corner stone of the new Methodist
Episcopal Church, at New London, Cecil
County, was laid on Sunday.
Miss 'Iattie j. Ennis, OF Baltimore, has
been appointed assistant principal of the
Nortl. East High School, Cecil county.
Rev. A. s. Mowbray, pastor of Tome
Methodist Church at Port Deposit, sailed
Saturday from Philadelphia for Europe.
DR.. G. Paul Jones, prominent in Dem
ocratic politics at Princess Anne, died of
apoplexy Tuesday night while sitting on
a porch at his residence.
The managers of the textile plant at
Havre de Grace will build large cotton
spinning plant provided suitable site is
donated to the company.
The building formerly occupied as the
Methodist Episcopal Church in Port De-
posit, recently purchased by Mrs. Jacob
Tome France, was formally turned over
to the trustees Monday night.
The annual reunion of the Presbyter-
ians of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Vir-
ginia, West Virginia and the District of
Columbia was held at Pen-Mar Park last
week. The attendance was estimated at
{, 200.
Farmers who have threshed their
wheat during the past week report that
the crop is nearly one-half short The
violent extremes of weather last spring,
wet and dry, hot and cold, is believed
to be responsible for the poor crop.
The School Commissioners of Cecil
County have selected Charles B. Finley,
Jr., of Elkton, principal of the Cecil
County High School and Elkton public
schools, as successor to Prof. George A.
Steele, resigned. Mr.. Finley is the only
son of Charles B. Finley, cashier of the
National Bank OF Elkton, and is a gradu-
lte of Princeton. He served in the
Philippines with Battery A, of Philadel-
3hia.
Middletown transcript., 1903-07-18
Care Of the Canary
Be sure the seed is pure.

Be sure the seed is pure.
Wash out all vessels carefully every
day.
Put slippery elm bark in the drinking
cup.
Always dry the perch thoroughly after
cleaning.
Give him bit of apple or figs; and
now and then real live worm.
When the bird looks droopy and de-
iected give him iron and sulphur.
Do not put the cage in a draught nor
near enough to the ceiling to get hot air
that always rises in room.
Do not hang the cage out of doors. 1t
is sure to be forgotten in sudden change
of temperature, and then the little cap.
tive suffers.
Middletown transcript., 1903-07-18
REDUCED RATES TO BALTIMORE

For the benefit OF those desiring to at
tend the meeting of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, at Baltimore,
Nd, July 2lst to 23d, the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company will sell round-trip
tickets to Baltimore from Harrisburg
a I'd intermediate stations, and from Col.
u nbia, Frederick, and intermediate sta.
tions on the Northern Central Railway,
from Lancaster, Harrisburg, and inter.
mediate stations, and from all stations on
the Philadelphia, Baltimore and WASH
ington Railroad Except stations south of
Townsend, Del. }, on July 10Th, goth, and
2lst, good for return passage until July
25th, inclusive, at rate of single fare for
the round trip, plus fifty cents.
Middletown transcript., 1903-07-18
LAURA BIGGAR TO BE ARRESTED

Justice Traux, of the Supreme Court Of
New York, issued an order on Saturday
for the arrest of Laura Biggar, in suit
for Sl0O, 600 brought by Mrs. Agnes Mary
Hendricks, who alleges that the actress
has alienated from her the affections of
her husband, DIR. Charles G. Hendricks.
DIR. Hendricks was formerly inspector
OF health for Hudson county, N. r., and
conducted sanitarium at Bayonne.
Mrs. Hendricks says that she and Dr..
Hendricks lived happily together until be-
made the acquaintance Of Miss Biggar
Since his desertion, Mrs Hendricks al.
leges, he has continued to reside wish
Miss Biggar.