Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-27

The selectmen and auditors will
meet at the Office Of F. @, Southgate,
Thursday. Feb. LIST, to begin the an
nual settlement Of town accounts
The pupils of the High school en-
tertained about thirty from Windsor
High in the assembly hall last week
Friday evening.
Mrs. Julia Fairbanks went 10
Proctor Thursday to visit her son.
H. w. Fairbanks, who has an eX-
cellent position with the Vermont
Marble Co.
The regular meeting of the Y w.
G. r. U. will be held at the home
of Miss Bernice Vaughan next Mon
day evening, Jan. 20, at 7.3O o'clock
A good attendance is desired.
Bad weather interfered with the
"mid-winter" ball at Kedron Tavern
Tuesday evening. About 30 couple
attended and were well entertained
by Mr., Holt.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. E. Gillingham Of
Chicago are at the Inn. They ex-
poct to sail from New York Feb. 3
for Naples, spending a little time in
Italy, and then go on to Egypt,
They will be in France early in
May. where they viii remain fer
some weeks.
Miss Eva E. Waldo of this village
and Mr.. Herbert II. Stickney Of
White River junction were married
at the home of the brides brother,
Albert S. Waldo, at 8 o'clock Sat
urday evening. Rev. G. A. Mcdaniel
performed the ceremony, in the
presence of the immediate relatives.
e. S. Morrill, of Taftsville, who
goes in for tropical fruit a little,
brought to The Age office Wednes-
day an american Wonder" lemon,
grown by him and picked from a
plant three years old. 1t weighed
l3 ounces and measured l1xI3
inches.
George Aitken attended the meet
ing of the Vermont Forestry associa-
ton at Burlington Wednesday. He
has been speaking at Farmers in
stitutes this week in East Braintree,
BrookGeld, Mortified and Water
bury.
The judges have made their re-
port on the plants of the Junior
Auxiliary of the Woodstock Improve
ment Society, Tie prize will not
be awarded until the shrine 1901
rng or the Auxiliary when the plans
for summer gardens are made.
Canton Woodstock No. II, P. NJ,
was officially inspected by Maj. D.
AZ ~ -f Rollows Falls. last
Spaulding installed the following
officers: Captain, Fred A. Averill;
lieutenant, E. G. Freeman; ensign,
Geo, NJ. Warren: clerk John p
Gilman; accountant, Berton B.
Rich.
The present mild winter doesn't
bring JOY to every one. The lum-
bermen are complaining of lack of
snow, and George Aitken is quoted
by the daily press as being of the
opinion that the hay crop on low
lands will be greatly damaged by
water freezing and injuring the
roots of the grass.
Roy Wheelock of Barnard, who
recently drove the Bethel stage, had
quite a narrow escape while working
at Bethel Mills Thursday of last
week. He was engaged saving
logs when his left hand came in
contact with the saw. The glove on
his hand was cut nearly in two and
the saw entered the small finger Of
his left hand, cutting to the bone
and nearly severing the flesh. The
flesh was stitched back in place by
DR.. Greene.
A dispatch from Mortified, Mass,
says;
Two daughters of Mrs. Frederick
Billings, of Woodstock, Mrs. Freder-
lex Lee and Miss Mary Billings,
have given $4,000 for a science
hall at Northfeld, (Mass,) Seminary,
founded by D. L. Moody in honor of
their mother. BY the gift the school
will be enabled to enlarge its cours-
es. In domestic science girls will
be enabled to take a course similar
20 that given at the Pratt institute
and receive a diploma. The two
donors are greatly interested in the
work at Mortified and have passed
much time there
The Rochester, N. Y, Union Adj
vertiser says of "The Mummy and
the Humming Bird" which comes
to Woodstock soon,