Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-11-12
Woodstock Vermont

Prof. Edward Fl. Williams was in
Andover, Mass, Sunday and Mon
day.
II. p. Clark was in Boston this
week and sold his well known PAGER,
"Fire King"
The Y. w. C. r. U. held a sue
cessful box social in the vestry OF
the Christian church last evening.
The Kings Daughters will have a
sale of food and fancy articles at the
parlors of the Congregational church
next Saturday afternoon, Nov. 10,
beginning at 3 o'clock.
The republican victory was nois-
lily celebrated here Tuesday night,
the drum corps beginning business
about IL o'clock.
Woodstock cast only 400 votes
Tuesday, 422 going to Roosevelt
and GO to Parker. The other five
votes went to the socialist and pro-
hibition candidates.
A fve-cornered scrap" on Elm
street about midnight Tuesday made
the dust fly for a few minutes
There were one or two knock-downs
but the trouble ended without seri-
Gus injury to any one.
f. w. b. Smith has exchanged his
house on High street for W. A. Alb.
bolts half-interest in the stone store
property, formerly owned by G. E
Woodruff and now occupied by G. F
Robinson's grain store. Mr.. Smith
will remain in his house for the
present.
A. HI. Townsend has bought the
livery business and buildings Of
l. H. Whitcomb, who has been 6
successful liveryman here for the
past 90 years. The price paid was
$500, the property including nine
horses, carriages and other equip
ments, Mr.. Whitcomb reserving q
Concord coach, four horses and q
couple of buffalo robes.
An automatic edge grinder fo1
lenses has been invented by Ferris
R. Vaughan, of the firm Of Vaughan
& Burnett, Brattleboro, former
resident of Woodstock, and is now
in practical operation in the firms
optical department. A set of gears
is so ingeniously constructed that
the shaft that holds the rough
edged tense is given three distinct
motions, rotary, lateral across the
face of the stone, and forward and
backward. The device can be adj
justed to grind to any desired SIZE
or shape, and as it is entirely auto
matte and run by electricity, it cal
he left To do it's work without the
slightest attention.
The Woodstock High school boy
have kept pounding away in spite o
successive defeats and last Saturda,
they won a fierce gridiron battl
with the Windsor school team, this
being a return game. The first hal
ended with the score 6 to 0 in favo
of the Windsors, but after the in
Permission the home talent got int
the game and had things more thei
own way. Bianchi and Ladd wer
especially conspicuous in tacklin!
and ground gaining. The contes
ended with the score 10 to 6. Th
victors had to make some noise an
making a band wagon of passin
cart favored their scattered audienc
with mighty cheers, howls and fe,
stanzas of blue Bell"
F. w. Stronach of the New Eng
land Co. and two other employs
George Demosh and E. Reynolds
intercepted an electric current Sa
l urday noon, while repairing tn
wires broken by the Inn stable fiji
the day before and Jared some. A
: were on the ground and had hold {
a the wires that had sagged acro'
the electric light company's wire
( when unexpectedly the lights WEI
a turned on. The men received
t charge of l04 volts, enough to sen
}. two of them into the spruce tire,
t with loud Zip but Mr.. Stronae
3 was not knocked down. Anoth
2 man on a pole received a sligl
# shock, but a good grip on his per'
It saved him from a fall. 1t was al
d discovered that live wire had BET
y hanging down in the trees with
it reach of the ground all day Frid
e and Friday night, and any o.
e might have gotten the medicine II