Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-02-25

w. w. Dearborn has been notified
that his exhibit Of the Dearborn
spring water at the st. Louis exhibi
ton won the highest award in its
class, silver medal accompanying
the award.
Hal P. Seavey writes from sunny
Tennessee that the mercury dropped
to II degrees below zero at Iron
City the other day, which is an UNI
heard of record for his town or any
other place in the state. He is the
only man in the town who has a
woodshed, this provision against
cold snap probably being only the
natural prompting of his New Eng
land ancestry. He had both coal and
wood on hand and was the means of
relieving considerable distress among
his woodshedless neighbors whose
only resource was to dig through the
snow for fuel when the pinch came.
The plants cared for by the chill
dren of the junior auxiliary Of the
Woodstock Improvement society
were examined recently and the first
prize was awarded Miss Carrie At
wood, Miss Katherine Kidder re
ceiving the second prize. Those re-
ceiving honorable mention are: Su-
sic Wilson, Elizabeth Billings, Ethel
Jackson, Dorothy Hamilton, Marion
Hamilton, Katherine Wilder, Mildred
McWain, Archie Bean, Margaret
Wilder, Frederick Wilder, Ruth
Wilder, Willie Shallies, Lillian
Hoare, Carol Finley, Alonzo How
land, Hubert Garfield, Vivian Can
field, Corinna Ordway.
Lewis Fl. Hudson, a we'll known
resident of this village for the past
five or six years, died at the Hano-
yer, N. H., hospital, Wednesday, of
tuberculosis. lie has been at the
hospital about a week. He was AZ
years old. For several years Mr..
Hudson was employed by G. w.
Sayward in the latter's sash and
blind shop, and last fall leased the
shop for a year. He was an excellent
workman and was held in high es-
TEEN here. He was a member of
Woodstock Camp, M. w. A., and of
Ottauquechee Lodge, l. 0. o. F. Mr..
Hudson leaves a widow and five chill
dren--Chnton, Herbert, Flora, Fred
erick and Ruth; his mother and |
one sister also survive him. The
funeral will be held at the Methodist
church Sunday at l.30 o'clock.
The Woodstock Inn will build a
handsome new barn the coming sea-
son to take the place of the one de-
by fire last October. Ran
dlett & Griffin of Concord, N. H.,
architects of the new school house
here, made the plans, and a drawing
of the building shows large and
modern structure, with a gambrel
roof, quite in keeping with the ar
chitecture of the Inn. 1t is much
larger than the old barn, being 1913
feet long and GA feet deep. 1t will
contain So stalls, 40 single and Is
box stalls, the latter being located
between the two rows of single stalls.
On the first floor will also be the
two harness rooms, large space for
carriages, and Office. Steam Or hot
water will be used for heating, and
the building will have $1,000 feet of
floor space. On the second floor
will be a storage room for carriages,
sleighs, etc, and space for hay. 1t
will be one of the largest and best
equipped barns of the kind in the
state.
The barns and other buildings on
Billings farm are favorite gathering
places for the birds that are pleased
to winter in this section. They are
attracted by the scattered feed for
the poultry and stock and so make
fair living during the cold months,
nearly two hundred English spar
rows being perched on the electric
light wires leading to Manager Ait
ken's house the other day, waiting
for the dinner hour. At the big
woodshed on the road which begins
opposite the fair ground entrance a
woodpecker has make his home all
winter, grubbing away at the dead
wood and often getting cold "hand-
Out" from the men at work there.
He accepts everything with thanks
and seems to enjoy society. Three
bluejays are also making their head
quarters in the neighborhood and
entertain the workmen, who occa-
sionally SNOWFALL them, with raspy