Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-11-14

| in q cold wind, hut the cOnteSt WAS
last enough to keep the spectators
Interested. The local boys NE de-
veloping Il good team, but the juno
tons are more experienced PLAYERS
and won, - TOT. The first half
ended 6 to 3 in favor of the visitors,
who inc, eased their score after some
lively work in the second half.
Nathan Gushing has been busy
this week in getting ready for ship
ment an order 70, 600 pounds of
maple sugar. The order came
through F. II. Gillinsham and most
of the sugar goes to Chicago and
farther west.
George l.. Fletcher of Chester,
who does not miss attendance at
many sessions of Windsor county
court, is the oldest lawyer in the
state in active practice. He is
eighty-four years old, and was adj
mittea to the bar tifty-nine years
ago. His grandfather served with
Washington at Valley Forge IN the
revolutionary war. Ills father was
in the war of 1872, and lived to the
age of Io3 years.
Vcterinaries have been authorized
by Austin Peters, chief of the Mas
sachusetts cattle bureau, to test cat
tie in the state of Vermont for tut er-
culo>is. The cattle tested by any
other than persons named by the
chief of the cattle bureau, will lie
held in quarantine, and retested at
the risk of owner Ivy an agent of the
cattle bureau. The authorized vet
erinaries in this vicinity are DIR. w.
II. Corey and DR.. r. w. Boyce of
Woodstock and DR.. George Stephens
of White River Junction.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. III. Townsend
are visiting in Boston and vicinity.
Frank O'Brien Of Windsor was
brought here Monday by Deputy
Sheriff Spafford to serve ten-days'
sentence in Jail on conviction for
intoxication, but settled up that night
and departed.
Richard Southgatc and Mr.. Lane
of Dartmouth spent Sunday in
Woodstock.
Rev. and Mrs. f. &. Putnam have
closed tn. parsonage aud gone to the
Inn 70 the winter.
Mrs. ". f. Johnson and Miss
Johnson are spending the week in
Boston.
Mrs. Arthur b. Pinney is in Ros-
ton for ii few weeks studying vocal
music.
Charles Kitlder, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ellery W. kidder, expects to
enter the medical department of the
University of Vermont next month.
Fred Averil! is visiting in Boston
and Maiden, Mass.
New bids for carrying the mail
between Woodstock and South
Woodstock are called tor by the
government, which rejected the first
bids. The bond required is in.
creased from 5000 to $500. The
schedule named in the proposal re
quires the carrier to leave South
Woodstock at us Il. M, arriving
here at $50; returning, leave here
at $50 a. M, arriving at South
Woodstock at Io.45, which gives the
South village no mail in the after
noon.
Seventeen friends of Miss Clara
f. Purple gave her Il linen shower
party ut the home of Miss
Aline Bo,cc Wednesday evening.
{. II. Grcenleaf, of the Hotel
Vcndome and the Profile House,
and ii. Nj. kimball, Of Boston, were
at the Inn day or two this week.
The schools outside the village
closed Friday FOR vacation OF two
reopening Nov. 80.
The old house which stood on the
lot on River street adjoining II. H.
Daniels place on the west was about
40 years old, and has travelled some
and has had many tenants during
its long life. 1t was built on the site
OF the present court house and was
used us a drug store and dwelling,
being then occupied by Abraham
Hedge, who kept drugs and medi-
cines for ''Practitioners of Physic
and the Public" In 1928 the build
ing was bought by Arthur Nc.
Gowan, who moved it across the
river to the site where it stood until
taken down about two weeks ago.
1t was drawn down Elm street,
across the meadow where Mrs. G.