Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-12-08

lings pond.
A. B. Morgan was in Boston the
past week.
Mrs. NJ. E. Purple of Mt. Vernon,
N. Y, is visiting here.
A. E. Spaulding is i'll and confn-
ed to his house.
H. P. Clark was in Boston, Mon
day to attend the funeral of a relative.
W. J. Boyce was in Boston this
week buying holiday goods.
Frederick Bourbon was at home
from Norwich University for the
Thanksgiving holidays.
Sheriff E. A. Thomas is wearing a
ha ndsome sterling silver badge,
given him last week by the deputy
sheriffs Of the county.
B. L. Pinney, who has been at his
Plymouth Camp since the opening
of the hunting season, returned Thurs
day night. His spoils Of the chase
in small game would fill freight
car.
The White River Medical Associa-
ton held a regular meeting at White
River Junction Tuesday afternoon,
DIR. H. 9. Jackson, vice president,
presiding.
Zero temperature, snow and rain
have marked the weeks weather re-
cord. Wednesday morning the mer-
curry registered several degrees be-
low zero.
Christian Science services will be
held in the Christian Science room
in the academy building at South
Woodstock Sunday, Dec. 8, at II a.
m. All are welcome.
On Sunday, Dec. l, S. B. Whitney,
began his twenty-ffth year as Or
ganist of the Church of the Advent,
Boston. The special music for the
day was written by Mr.. Whitney.
Mrs. M. A. Flint, mother of Thorn
as Flint Jr., died at her home in
San Juan Cal, Nov. 80. She was
the widow of DR.. Thomas Flint and
much of her earlier life was passed
in Woodstock
The meeting tomorrow of the
Young Peoples Christian Union at
the Universalist church will be in
charge of Miss Emma Wilder, the
subject being Loyalty to the High
est" These services are on Sunday
evening at seven o'clock in the
church parlors.
An order has been issued by First
Assistant Postmaster General Hitch
cock, effective January |, looking to-
ward the adoption of uniform rates
of rent for boxes in postofhces. The
revised rates will affect every post
Office in the United States. The new
schedule adopts as the minimum
rate for small boxes in small fourth
class postoffices the amount ten cents
per quarter) now generally charged.
From this figure the rates advance
according to carefully graduated
scale until they reach a charge for
small lock boxes at one postoffice
New York city, of $4 quarter, the
amount now charged at that office.
1t is not the intention to make any
general increase in box rents. While
set rates will be revised others will
be considerably lowered.
The funeral of Mrs. Henry Car
penter, who died Friday morning,
Nov. 30, was held at the home on
Sunday afternoon at l o'clock, Revs.
Charles F. Partridge and Joseph
Hamilton officiating Mrs. Carpen-
ter was born in Wiltshire, England,
Nov. l, 1861, and was married to
Henry Carpenter in Swinton, Eng,
January Is, 1887. Three chill
dren were born to them, viz, Mrs.
Bessie Potwin of this place (born in
England and Francis and Dorothy,
born in Woodstock, who with her
husband survive her, besides four
sisters and one brother: Mrs. Mar
tina Yuncker of this town, Mrs. Sarah
DeConto and Miss Hannah Newport
of Newport, England, Mrs. Rose
Wheeler of Moorfeld, England, and
Rev. Frederick Newport of Oxford,
| Maine.
Was Born in Woodstock