Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-04-23
The street department is doing ex.

tain Wednesday.
Friday opened fair and warmer
Q and the weather bureau said it, and
the outlook is encouraging.
Mrs. Earle NJ. Slack is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Clarence &. Wat
kins, in New York, where he,
. monther passed the winter.
An operation for the removal of
J a tumor was performed upon G. A.
J. White by Drs. Holbrook and
Jackson Tuesday, and Mr.. White is
now improving.
The fair ground schoohouse, on
the Billings estate, is being made
over into dwelling house for the
use of farm employees.
! he regular meeting OF the y. w.
| {. L. u. will he held with Mrs. NJ.
7. Morrill, on Monday evening,
April IS, at 7.3o o'clock.
a. w. Kendall was called to East
Farnham, p. @, last week by the
death OF his father-in-law, X. A.
Goddard. Mrs. Kendall returned
with him.
+. w. B. Smith, who has been
quite i'll for several weeks, was out
again Thursday, but is not yet able
! to resume his business duties.
"Nero," the handsome St. 5er-
nard at Billings farm, who has been
faithful companion OF the night
Waterman, died last week. She was
II years old.
e. S. Morrill,, editor of "Vermont
Farm and Home" was in town
Thursday.
The remains of Orlando L. Taylor
will arrive from Windsor by the 5
o'clock train this afternoon. The
funeral will be held at the College
Hill House Sunday afternoon at half
past two o'clock. The interment
will be in Riverside cemetery, the
burial service being conducted by
Woodstock Lodge, No. 81, f. and
A NJ.
Wayne Martin French, il native
of Woodstock and son of Capt. Geo.
Il. French of Fremont, Neb., was
married Saturday, April rs, to Miss
Ethel Outhel Stewart of Montreal,
in Melville church, Weatmount
Park, Montreal. MIR. French has
an excellent position with fruit eX.
porting firm in New York city.
The Rutland News of Friday.
April IS, has the following an
nouncement Of the marriage of Will
liam Erie Foster, younger son OF
William D. Foster of Woodstock:
"NIiss G. Beatrice McNally of
State street ond William Erie Eos; |
tri Ur woodstock were unlteu III
marriage last evening by Rev. John
Dutliel,l at the Methodist church.
Only the immediate relatives of the
bride and groom were present. Miss
Carrie &. McNally, the BRIDES Sis
ter, was bridesmaid. and r. y. F'ow-
Ter Of Bellows Falls acted as best
man. The wedding supper was
served at the home of the bride.
Mr.. and Mrs. Foster went on a
sleeper to Boston for a short we'd
ding trip"
Mrs. Foster is now at w. D. Fos-
ter's for a short stay. Mr.. Foster is
in the employ of the Vermont Mar
bic Co. at Center Rutland, being
superintendent of the farm proper
ties on which the company's quarries
are located.
Last week pretty nearly every
patch of snow had disappeared, the
roads were drying up everywhere,
except on Mail Carrier English's
route, end the village streets would
have been dusty tn a day or two
when on Friday night along came
nearly eight inches of snow. TWAS
an unusually heavy tall for mid
April joke--nearly as much as any
winter month recorded at any one
time. Early gardening operations
were Immediately suspended and
the woodchuck went indoors again
to stay until spring came for keeps.
| With the storm came cool weather
and the snow fingered along for
several days, to be followed by a
storm beginning Tuesday evening.
Wednesday morning there were two
! or three inches of snow and several
inches of mud, the storm continuing
all day.
Carlos w. Granger of Randolph
was arraigned before Justice Flint of
Bethel last week Thursday, charged
with the illegal selling of intoxicat-
ing liquor. The evidence tended to
show that Granger had three or four
bottles of whiskey in his possession
the day before and took man be-
hind freight car and treated him.
Justice Flint didn't see how, con-