Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-04-02


DIS usual.
Charles Flint is again driving tn
Bethel stage.
Clarence Randall went to Felch
vile Friday, to remain n few week
before going to Lynn, Mass.
The Kings Daughters Circle viii
meet with Mrs. w. II. Moore thi
evening at 1880 o'clock.
Miss Maude Townsend is at home
from birmingham, Mass, for the
Easter vacation.
Mrs. Linn Fairbanks, who ha'
been visiting her daughter, Mrs. J
L. Chandler, in Windsor, returned
Monday.
The following pension change
are announced through the agency
of John Gilman, attorney, whose
ability is pretty we'll attested by the
number OF soldiers whom he has
succeeded in aiding: Samuel Hast.
ings of Bridgewater, from Sc to SIS
Austin Abbott, Woodstock, So to
$Ia; Charles Fl. Iillson, Woodstock,
IS to So.
The New Park hotel will be re.
opened about May Ist under the
management of w. l.. Wood. &.
w. Scarf, the new proprietor, was
in town Thursday making arrange.
ments for refurnishing the house
and other changes that are to be
made there. Mr.. Wood is II popu-
lar young man, with large nc
quaintance, having been travelling
representative of the New England
Telephone Co. for several years, and
the new house and new manager be-
gin business with very favorable
prospects.
There is much uncertainty AS to
the maple sugar crop this season,
with few good sap days up to this
time. On Thursday Reed Brothers
gathered 1sI barrels OF sap and could
hardly handle the flow.
Dr.. Sylvester Edison Munger, the
son of Mrs. c. A. Munger of this
village, died Tuesday afternoon at
the home Of his brothcr.in-law, DR..
Deame Richmond, in Windsor, Of
pneumonia. DR.. Munger attended
the Woodstock High School and ell
tered Dartmouth with the class of
10, hut went to Carbondale, Pa,
to engage in business before com
pleting the college course. Later
he studied medicine with Drs. Rich
mond and Sherwin and graduated
from the medical department of the
of Vermont in 1882. He
practiced in Putnev several years,
removing to Windsor in 1902. DR..
Munger married, in 1878, Miss
Alice Richmond of Woodstock,
who with one daughter, Maud, SUR
wives him.
Architect G.. II. Crantlall WAS in
Bethel last week and submitted plans
for a new schoolhouse, estimated to
cost $4,000. The plans call for
,wo-story building, Il by So feet,
with solid brick walls, the basement
to be of granite. The Randolph
Herald says:
Charles II. Crandall of Woodstock
was in town last Thursday and Fri
day, the guest of his sister, Mrs. E.
II. Salisbury. Mr.. Crandall, who
is an architect, is also a practical
builder and has been in the bust
ness for the last seventeen years,
drawing plans tor eight or nine
years. He is thinking now of leav-
ing Woodstock and locating in Ran
dolph, which would be more con-
venient point from which to work,
and his trip here last week was tor
the purpose Of looking over the
ground little.
MRS. JOHN ]. DEWEY.
Mrs. Emma Metcalf Dewey, wife
of John ]. Dewey, died at her home
in Quechee Sunday evening after
an illness of several weeks. She has
been very well known in Wood
stock for many years. Her family
has been a part of the social life OF
this village, and her death is felt as
a personal loss to many here.
Mrs. Dewey was the daughter of
Erasmus and Ann Downs Metcalf
and was born in Franklin, Mass,
Jan. 10, lS47. Her parents after
wards removed to Boston, where
she was married, Jan. %, 1869, by
Rev. w. H. II. Murray, to John J.
ewey of Quechee, where they have
since resided.
Mrs. Dewey's father is living in
Boston, at an advanced age, and he'
husband and five daughters sur.
vive her: Alice Louise, the wife OF
c;Eort II Z;no,,,on of New Red.