Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-06

Miss Billings, Miss Herman,
Miss Lambert and Frederick Billings
returned to New York this week.
Hiram U. King and Miss Ruth
King of Stamford, Conn, were at
the King homestead a few days this
week.
The meteorological events of the
week included a thunder and light
ming, rain and snow, several inches
of snow falling Wednesday night,
The sleighing is very good now and
travellers look more cheerful.
Rev. E. G. Drouhin entertained
the members of his parish at house
warming Thursday evening, changes
and repairs at his residence having
been recently completed. FIR.
Drouhin observed the tenth anniver-
sarv of his ordination to the priest
hood a few weeks ago, entertaining
his guests at Foresters' hall.
Rev. Carl F. Henry, A. NJ, Of
Cleveland Ohio, delivered his lee
ture, "For the Common Good" to a
large audience at the Methodist
eh,arol, S,,,4Aasr--s>,s--ir's5.- He IS all
excellent speaker and presented his
subject in a way that interested and
entertained his hearers from the be-
ginning.
Mr.. Orley A. Whitcomb Of this vii
hge and Mrs. Grace Gilman Case Of
Providence, R. l., were married on
New Years day at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Clinton F. Stevens, in
Providence. Rev Henry M, King,
D. D., performed the ceremony,
which was followed by wedding
pleakfast. Mr. and Mrs. Whitcomb
will make G.e;r home in Woodstock.
A giant figure III snow, near the
tennis court of the Country Club
grounds, was unveiled a few days
ago with considerable ceremony. G.
e. Barton of Boston was the sculp
tor, some of the holiday visitors and
others doing the heavy lifting in
stacking up the monster snow balls
from which the heroic form was
modelled. 1t will continue to domi-
nate the landscape until it succumbs
to sunshine or rain.
Rev. and Mrs. H. L. Garfield en-
tertained large number OF their
friends on the afternoon Of. A!9y
Of their marriage, when they kept
open house. Mrs Garfield wore her
,vaddino drAae -
guests, who brought many congratu-
lations and gifts for the host and
hostess. Refreshments were served,
Miss Ethel Story pouring coffee and
Miss Alice Mack serving chocolate.
Woodstock Inn entertained last
week 10 or more people, this being
the best holiday season the house
has ever had. The weather was. ia
vorable and the guests all enjoyed
their stay here, the younger ones
doing the best they could with snow
shoes and skis, as there have been
only few inches of snow this sea-
son. Miss Thomas, violinist, and
Mrs Colprit, pianist, played during
the week, and on Sunday evening
there was an enjoyable vocal and in
strumental concert in the music
rotm. There was Christmas tree
for the house last week, with gifts
for everyone, the office and dining,
room room being very attractive in
holiday decorations.
Clyde A. Houghton, of Lynn,
Mass, son of Mr.. and Mrs. M. J.
Houghton, writes from Portsmouth,
Va, Dec. 81, as follows:
You might be interested to learn
that the weather down here isn't
much better than you are getting in
Vermont. We are at present time
having a combination of rain and
snow with an east wind that's worse
than any ON the coast of Massachu-
sets. | am down here representing
the General Electric Co. on some
consultation and repair work in
connection with some turbo-gener-
ators that the Seaboard Air Line
railroad are to use for electric light
ing their fast Florida train, the Palm
Limited, this season.
Three weeks ago / was in the
western part of New York state on
inspection and repair work on cleo
trical apparatus in Syracuse, Gene
va and Rochester and only got back
to Lynn about ten days ago.
The officers of Our Lady of the
Shows Court, No. 5l4, Catholic Or
der of Foresters, were installed last
Wednesday evening by Joseph F.
D. H. G. r., of White River
Junction, twenty members of st. An
thony Court coming from the juno
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