Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-06-27
LOCAL NOTES

second reunion this week. The mem
bers met at the wedding of Mis-
Elizabeth @. Williams, daughter q
Gen. N. q, Williams, at Below
Falls, Wednesday evening. Tn
party thence went to Peru, remain
ing there until today, Col. and Mrs
f. S. Billings and Miss Elizabeth
Billings left Tuesday to attend tn
reunion, expecting to return hom
Monday.
AT an annual meeting in Burling
ton Tuesday DR., T. Thomas Kidde
ofWoodstock, class of 80, was elected
to fill a vacancy on the board o
trustees of the University of Yer
mont. All alumni of the university
had an opportunity to vote for thu
trustees. DR.. Kidder received 2lS
votes, Eugene N. Foss, 81, of ia
maica Plain, Mass, 1914, and Chester
B. Mclaughlin, 70, of New York
100. The Age is pleased to make
note of the honor paid to a wei
known resident of Woodstock.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. D. Parsons ar
rived from Detroit, Mich, Tuesday
Mrs. Parsons will pass the summer
with her mother, Mrs, Henry Boyn'
ton.
Mrs. F. B. Dana was summoned on
Monday to Groton, Mass, by DR.
William Gobie to assist in the care
of his sister, Mrs. Thomas Aitken,
and her son, the latter being dan
gerously ill from a severe attack OF
scarlet fever.
B. L. Pinney went to the Crawford
House, White Mountains, Thursday,
where he will again have charge Of
the dining room. Benjamin Taylor,
who has a position there for the sum-
mer, accompanied him.
Misses Elizabeth Vaughan and
Ethel Jackson are passing two weeks
in Claremont, N. II
The meetings of the Y. M. @. A,
will be discontinued during July
and August. They have been very
successful the past winter and spring
and renewal Of interest is expected
when they are resumed in September,
G.. e. Barton, the architect, has
given up his Office here. Karl A,
Pember an excellent draughtsman,
who has been in charge of the Office
while studying architecture, will re-
tain the rooms for his own business.
At the Methodist Episcopal church
tomorrow the pastor will preach in
the morning on Mans Supreme
Need" and in the evening on SIS it
Ever Right to Tell Lie?" The
young people are invited to attend
the pastors Baraca-Philathea class
at ll.45 a. m.
Mr.. A. B. Wilder, who has given
his services to one of the art classes
at the Arts and Crafts club the past
season, gave an instructive talk on
Mature from an Artistic Stand
point before the Y. NJ. 9. A. We'd
nesday evening. 1t was suggest
i've appeal for more general interest
in art for the pleasure to be derived
from some knowledge of it. He IL
Illustrated his talk with few black
board sketches to bring out his
points in regard to perspective, etc,
and some of the problems of outdoor
work and nature in its different as
poets were touched upon. Good
pictures, he said, were we'll balanced
in either line, form, tone or color
Interest and pleasure increase with
the study of art and in looking about
for beautiful bits of nature, and one
thus becomes better able to tell a
good picture from q bad one.
There will be an annulor eclipse
of the sun Sunday, visible III Wood
stock as a partial eclipse. The path
of the annular eclipse passes over
Mexico City, Tampa, Fla, and the
Bermuda Islands Along that line,
at the middle OF the eclipse, the
moon will obscure the central part
of the suns disk, leaving ring of
light around the edge The moon
being at this time at nearly its great
est distance from the earth, it can
not cover the Whole of the sun.
The partial eclipse begins in Boston
at 1908 a. m, local time, and ends
at LA p. m. This is about ten
minutes later than eastern standard
time.
*Plenty of room, pure materials
and skilled service makes the soda
fountain at the Woodstock Pharmacy
the most popular fountain IN town,
Go in and see.