Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-04-15

Perley Clifford looked around
Sunday for signs of summer and
picked bunch of hepaticas, which
are the first that have been seen
here.
Mrs. Linn Corey returned from
Burlington Saturday and DIR. Corey
will be here during the Easter vaca-
ton.
A graduate of the old Vermont
Medical College in Woodstock, DIR.
Samuel N, Bemis, is dead at Brattle-
boro at the age of 50.
A conference of the Congrega-
tional churches of Windsor county
will be held at Quechee June 7.
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson Trudo,
sister of the late Mrs. Margaret Nc
Kane, and resident of Woodstock
for many years, died Wednesday
morning at 8 o'clock. The funeral
service was held Thursday.
Several changes have occurred at
Whites market the past week
George D. Morgan, who has been en-
ployed there for four years, retires
on account of his health, and Fred
A. West, who was a very popular
salesman there last year, is again at
work in the market Messrs. IT. j.
& G. A. j. White have purchased a
fine pair of horses for the cart for
merly run by Mr.. Morgan, and Her
man Reed will be the driver.
Rev. G. H. Wells was in Bethel
Wednesday to officiate at the funeral
of Miss Lois Smith, who died in
New York city Monday. She was 76
years old and daughter of Asa
Smith, the first man born in Bethel.
She was visitor in Woodstock dur.
ing the ministry of DR.. Clapp, the
first rector here, and her life also
goes back to the first days of the
Eniscona1 church in Bethel.
Luther S. Cakes, W. II, s., '95,
Dartmouth college, '99, Thayer
School of Civil Engineering, 90, has
been appointed locating engineer on
the Northern Pacific railroad. Mr..
Cakes is the son of E. w. Cakes of
Windsor and brother of Mrs. Here
ward Burbridge of this village, and
has been in the employ of the North
ern Pacific as civil engineer since
his graduation from the Thayer
school. He has been located at Sc
attic, Wash much of the time dur
ing the past two years.
The report that the checker play
ers of Bridgewater, where nearly
every one plays, wish to arrange
series of championship games here,
is received by the local experts with
much satisfaction and with no fear
of the outcome of such a contest.
They are ready to make date for
the meeting at any time. and the
team that will meet the Bridgewater-
ties will probably include these
names: Elton j. Fuller, H. P. Clark,
w. A. Putnam, John Carbino, Ed.
Towne, George M. Bradley, w. H.
Mitchell and E. A. Thomas. One
hundred games will be played, if
match is arranged. For Bridge
water, which defeated Plymouth in
notable contest last winter, the fol-
lowing and others will participate:
Allen Pinney, Elby Curtis, e. A.
Davis, G. l. Davis, Charles Weeden
and S. U, Weeden.
Two seasons ago George R. Lock-
wood set out five or six hundred
white pines in his pasture along the
Church hill road. They are now
healthy, thrifty young treesrranging
in height from two to six feet, and
Mr.. Lockwood is to be congratulated
on being about the first farm owner
to attempt any forestry work in this
section. In the same neighborhood,
Al years ago, Charles View and his
father found a white pine on the hill
opposite the View homestead-the
only one they could find in that Vi
cinity-and set it out by the roadside
opposite the house. From the seeds
of this tree, now a fine and flourish
ing specimen, have grown up around
about many young pines of all sizes
from two to fifteen feet high or more.
A row of ten or dozen larger ones
near the house are especially noticea-
BILE and add much to the beauty and
value of the premises.
Woodstock School Statistics.
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