Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-15
News of Woodstock

G. M. White went to Montpelier
Tuesday to watch the Legislative ma
chine for day or two.
Town Treasurer Southgate pro-
claims the usual three days of grace
on 1904 taxes. Monday, Oct. II, is
the last day.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. X. Slack are WIS.,
ting in Buffalo, N. Y, and vicinity.
Mrs. L. M. Riford of Ashby,
Mass, is visiting her brother, G. M.
Perry.
The fires in Enfield. N. H., and
Cornish, N. H., Tuesday evening
was seen from this vicinity.
The famous $4,000 SANDER case
of Samuel D. Wilson of alleged spot
ter fame VS.. Percival w. Clement,
which was tried at the October 1903
term of the federal court in Rutland
and is now in the United States cir
cult court of appeals on a writ of
error, will be heard on the points
raised by the defendant in New York
next month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred P. Billings
started for Los Angeles, Calf Mon
day, where they will reside. Their
present address is 524 East 35th
street.
The New York morning papers
now reach Woodstock on the 2:23
train instead of on the o'clock train
as heretofore. Last week the New
York, New Haven & Hartford rail
road company put on new tram
running from New York and Boston,
leaving New York at 2 a. M, and
arriving in Boston at 1880. by
means of this train New York mail
reaches White River junction be-
tween two and three hours earlier
than the previous schedule.
Louis Sheldon Newton, architect,
of Hartford, whose work is favorably
known in Woodstock, has been en-
gagged to furnish the plans for ex-
tensive changes in the Profile House
in the White Mountains.
Rev. M. II. Morrill,, who for about
eight years has been pastor of the
Christian church, for which he has
worked earnestly and faithfully, has
received call from the Dartmouth
College church at Hanover, N. H..
to be its assistant pastor. Mr.. Nor
rill has been released by the societ!
here for two years and will take W
his work in Hanover as soon as ;
supply is found for his pulpit.
A few flakes of snow fell Wednes
day evening and Thursday morning
the roofs in the village, also the to]
of the American Express Co.'S de
livery wagon, wore a white blanket
Y On the hills there was a fall of abou
an inch.
Mrs. F. B. Powell and +. r. Jew
!, EFT are on the board of director
elected at the annual meeting of tn
Vermont Humane Society held a
Rutland Wednesday.
u The winter schedule of the Woo
\ stock railway went into effect Nor
j day, the first mail now arriving hel
j at $50 a. m.
y Mrs. Tatum, Mrs. Chase and Mis-
3 Perkins, who have occupied the Co
y lege Hill House the past summer, n
turned to New York Wednesday.
Miss Virgin of Concord, n. H.,
u the guest of Miss Southgate.
,,ss The White River junction Lam
il mark has this item concerning
accident to a former resident:
u Maurice j. Walshe, manager
,h the Western Union local ollie, h;
Il both hands burned and receive
~ other injuries, none of them dange
n GUS, last Sunday morning. The Fl
Id in his furnace at his residence n
apparently gone out leaving Il
Goals unconsumed. When n
4 Walshe attempted to start "a fire
fire with the aid Of little kerose
and kindling an accumulation
). gas ignited and blew out upon M
VI He was lucky not to receive the I
4 fnroa of tho explosiOn in his Ii