Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-06-18
Miss Ella Hazcn of Lawrence,
Kan, is visiting Miss Haskell.

The people OF Prosper, Mort
Bridgewatcr and South Barnard ar
planning to hold n basket picnic
with games, ETC., at the red school
house in North Bridgewater, oil
July 9TH.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred NJ. WhitcomI
of Boston will occupy b. s. KIT
tredge's house on Mountain avenll,
during the absence of Principal ant
Mrs L. S. Watson in Pittslicld, \
II.
Miss Julia c. Reynolds, teache
in the High school for several years
has resigned and has accepted TIT
position of assistant principal of thu
High school in Laurens, Ohio.
Philip Royce of West Windsor
has purchased L. |. Benson's house
in West Woodstock and will. hi
family has again become residen
of this town, moving into the house
last week.
Woodstock's delegates to the Re
publican county convention We'd
nesday were Judge r. O. Seaver, F.
S. Billings, DR., F. T. Kiddcr, II. c
Gushing, Frank Metcalf, c. M.
White, ". G. Vaughan, Ora c.
Pratt, {. W. Cox, G. w. Merrill.
A. B. Jaquith has sold his place
"Rose HILL" to John G. Dana OF
Newark, N. J., who will take pos
session about July Ist. The house
has been. the home of Mrs. Jaquith
tor OF years, having been owned by
her father, Luther Briggs, and Mr..
Jaquith has lived there for AZ years.
The location is a beautiful one, and
a fine old-fashioned flower garden
is one of it's choice possessions.
Dearborn & Co. report the sale
of the LaCount and Dix Wheeler
farms, located in Bridgewater and
South Woodstock, to Eugene V.
Smith, for a hunting and fishing pre-
serve. They are adjoining farms
and contain about eos acres. George
Durant will be placed in charge OF
the farms. The price OF the prop
ertv is not stated.
Another successful ball was given
by the Kings Daughters at the town
hall Wednesday evening. The hall,
with it's decorations Of evergreen,
and Chinese lanterns, and
with good music and many dancers,
was for several hours brilliant and
att! active scene. Preceding the ball
Il concert was given by the Windsor
orchestra in the opera house, which
was largely attended, and very en-
ioYahle proeran was rendered. in
solo by Miss Carpenter.
There was pleasant gathering
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Sabin
Daigle Saturday evening, Mr.. Dali
giles birthday. The party was a
surprise to him, but all his neigh
bors and other friends, who seemed
to have remembered the day, We're
well entertained. Refreshments
were served and the guests had a
most enjoyable time with music and
games for several hours.
a local agriculturalist made a
novel experiment last year that isn't
worth repeating this season. He
was planting peas and to save the
bother of bushing them he sowed
some sunflower seeds along with
them, calculating that the stalks
would be Just about the right thing
for the clinging vines to tie up to.
Everything was fine for while
the sunflowers did well and the
young peas laid hold and got goot
grip on the stout stalks. Sunhow.
ers, however, grow faster than peas
and as they shot up they pulled the
peas after them, high and dry, and
when after brief interval the loca
agriculturist took look at his croI
the pea roots were 4 foot in the air
DREw-KNEEN.
AT the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Johr
J. kneen, Wednesday noon, thcil
daughter, Miss Maria Alice, wa:
married to Mr.. Wilbert Drew o.
Chicago, in the pres of mem.
beers of the family and a few friends
The parlors were prettily decorated
the couple standing beneath an arcl
of evergreen and flowers during th'
ceremony, which was performed b,
Rev. +. c. Putnam The bride.
gown was of white nuns yelling
and he, maid of honor, Miss Leil
kneen, a sister, wore gown o
green silk. Misses Irma kneen an,
Catharine Putnam, dressed in white
were flower girls. carrying basket
of white flowers. Mr.. Draper o
Boston was best man.
After a brief reception following
the ceremony Mr.. and Mrs. Dire,
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