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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-03
Permission Granted by Government

Official sanction was given today by the
government for the transmission Of
United States mails by aeroplane for the
first time in history. Permission was
granted by Postmaster General Hitchcock
for j. A. D. McCurdy to carry the mails
in this manner from the Kaiserin Auguste
Victoria next Saturday when that vessel
is fifty miles at sea- The only condition
imposed by the Postmaster General is
that the writer's of all letters carried by
AicCurdy shall have notice that the mail
Is to be carried by aeropiane.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-03
Most Important, Says Curtiss.

Glenn Curtiss, who was in Washington
this morning, said that he regarded Nc
Curdys proposed flight Saturday as the
most important experiment in aviation
that had been tried recently. The next
logical step, he said. would be lighting on
a. steamer In motion. The landing, he
said. would have to be made over the
stern. and would be more difficult than
the launching.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-03

All the new and handsome colors
are shown. including coral. green
wistaria. lavender. brown, black ano
white. gray and king blue. In this
assortment are plumes made to re.
tail for $50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-03
Naval officials Much Interested.

Naval officials are deeply interested in
Saturdays test. as it may demonstrate
the practicability Of aeroplanes for naval
purposes. Considerable study has been
devoted to the subject and there is a wide
diversity OF opinion. It is generally
agreed, however, that it will not be diff
cult for an aeroplane to start a flight
from the deck OF a man-of-war. the main
problem being how to insure the safe
landing Of the aerial messenger on
moving vessel in the open sea.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-02-19
SOUTH POMFRET.
Grange Notes.

Grange Notes.
when Johnny comes marching home
again,
Hurrah, hurrah
Well give him hearty welcome then,
Hurrah, hurrah!
The men will cheer, the boys will shout.
The ladies they will all turn out
And we'll all feel gay
When Johnny comes marching home"
We expect him at the Grange
meeting on Saturday evening, Feb
Is, and after he has been given q
hearty welcome the brothers and
sisters present, together with such
friends as may have dropped in foi
this Is an open meeting } will discuss
some matters relative to the best
future interests of the town of Pom
fret.
Come and add your opinion and
give us the benefit of your views on
the subject.
Abba D. Chamberlin, lecturer.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-02-19
NORTH POMFRET.

Mrs. Mosher has gone to the home
of her son in Tunbridge, where che
has had serious operation for gall
stones
Will Burke has been visiting his
relatives here.
julius Hood has been in town
looking for Jerseys for @, |. Hood.
Mrs. Mary Newton is spending
this week in Montpelier.
Angie Harrington spent last Sun
day with her sister in West Lebanon.
The friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Matt
Phelps will be pleased to know that
a son was born to them February IL.
Alvenus Stetson and son report
killing forty skunks this fall and
winter, and John Wheeler S5.
Fred Reed was in town last week
booking orders for sugaring supplies.
The Ladies' circle gave a tea
Thursday evening at Deacon Hew-
it's, giving the people opportun-
ity to meet Mr.. Goodheart, who is a
candidate for the minister's vacancy.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-02-19

were with Mrs. Sawyer Wednesday
of last week.
After finishing her school in Bar.
nard, Miss Alice Perkins ou Monday
returned home and on Saturday
went to Hartford to finish term OF
school.
Wilmer Shattuck was with friends
in White River Junction over Sun.
day.
Deferred.
Mes. l.. III. Cleveland was in
Woodstock Saturday.
Mrs. w. o. Harlow of Pittsford
was with her mother, Mri U. j,
Robinson, recently.
Miss Sarah Vaughan has returned
from Randolph.
Valentine Taylor is visiting
friends in Concord, N. H.
Myron Read of West Woodstock
was called to his fathers Tuesday
by the illness of the family.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-02-19
Death of George L. Fletcher

George Lowell Fletcher aged 81
years and native of Chester, died
February 10, after long illness.
In MIR. Fletcher's boyhood he
worked on farm with his father,
attending the districtj school sum-
mers and winters, and during has
leisure hours he studied lawbooks
Later he entered as law student
with Adams and Stoughton at North
Chester, and afterwards with Gen.
L. A Grant.
Mr.. Fletcher was admitted to the
bar in 1859, and in 1864 to the Cir
cult and District courts.
In 1877 he was appointed United
States commissioner of the Circuit
courts for the district of Vermont,
and he was until about one year ago
in full practice of the law profession,
being one of the oldest practicing
lawyers In the state.
He had served two terms as post
master and was twice the democratic
candidate for congress.
In 1892 he was a speaker in the
canvass of the first congressional
district of New Hampshire.
During the construction of the
Rutland railroad through that section
he was deputy sheriff of the county
In 1885 he was member of the
Vermont militia and worked his way
from private to lieutenant, and for
IL years he was captain of the Ches-
ter company
Mr.. Fletcher's father was soldier
in the war if 1912 and died at the
age of II. His grandfather fought
in the Revolutionary war, being at
Valley Forge with Gen. Washing
ton.
Mr.. Fletcher's first wife was a
daughter of Cyrus and Elizabeth
Jacobs and was one of seven children
She died May %, 1883, after two
children were born to them, Dilling-
ham of Chester and Charles L., of
Bellows Falls.
In 1890 Mr.. Fletcher married Miss
Lois A. FELTON, of Providence, r l
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-02-19
SOUTH WOODSTOCK.
Deferred

Lena Fletcher came home to at
tend the masquerade ball at NJ. j
Holt's Tuesday and returned to
Henry Emery's Wednesday.
M. j. Holt's masquerade ball was
well attended and was a success in
every way.
Mrs. James Sleeper. who has
been very sick for more than week
il considered better.
Mrs. r. H. Kingsley recently
sold a 6ve-weeks-old calf to Henry
Emery which weighed ISS pounds.
Several couples from here attend.
ed Pomona Grange at Brownsville.
Mrs. Clara Atwood Stewart has
gone to Springfield, Mass, to teach.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-02-19

shortly begin the issue of new one
cent postal card to be known as the
No. 4 card. The new card will be
of the same size as the preseut Nc
Krnley cards. The paper will be of
light blue tint and will be printed
in bronze-blue ink. The stamp will
be an elilpse on end and will con-
tain profile portrait of William
Mckinley.
Mrs. Charles Dawson, Mrs. Rich
ard rockingham and daughter
Gwendolyn of New York are at the
Inn.
o. E. Robinson, son Of Gilman f.
Robinson, one of Woodstock's enter
prising young farmers, starts for
Fremont, Neb., accompanied by his
family, next Monday. He will there
enter the employ of Fred e. Pratt,
also Woodstock boy, who is now
the proprietor of a very successful
creamery.
The annual meeting of Windsor
county rural letter carriers associa-
ton will be held at Springfield, Feb
%. Meeting called at l.30 p. m.
All rural carriers are invited.
The Independent Order of Forest
ers will hold an installation of officers
at their hall Tuesday evening, Feb.
%. Everybody is invited to attend
DR.. G. H, Spiller optician, will be
in Woodstock at j. g. Nutting's
Feb. 2l, and in Windsor February
%.
There were 81 tables at the whist
party given by the w. R. G. in G
A. R hall Monday evening, The
first prizes won by Miss Rose Fitz-
patrick and j. B. Carbino, the con-
ISOLATION prizes going to Mrs. H M.
Beaman and l. A. Doubleday, Re-
freshments were served.
Herman S Reed of Springfield
was in town Saturday, remaining
over Sunday on account of the storm
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. Fl. Vaughan
visited their son, A. M. Vaughan, in
Randolph Sunday.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-02-19
BRIDGEWATER CORNERS

e. III. Shnttuck and wife and Miss
Helen Shattuck were in West Wood
stock last week Friday in honor of
Abel Shattuck's list birthday.
Homer Robinson was with his
mother Thursday and Friday while
waiting warp at the woolen mill.
Mrs. l.. FL. Cleveland was with
friends in South Barnard Thursday
Lewis Chamberlain and Bert
Severance enjoyed two weeks out
ing in Boston, returning Friday.
Leroy Trudo is ill with pneumonia
A trained nurse from Hanover is
caring for him.
Mrs. George Stevens returned to
Rutland Suesday. but came back to
her fathers Saturday TO assist in the
work. Three children of Mr.. Reed
are confined tc their beds and three
others to the house.
Mrs. Erwin Putnam has pneu-
monia. A nurse, Miss Robbins, from
Hanover is caring for her, and Mrs
Frank Bassett is working there.
Valentino Taylor returned from
Concord, NJ H., Saturday.
Mrs Calvin Hubbard, daughter
Evelyn, and Mrs. Flora Perkins
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-02-19
State Library Notes


Miss Hobart, secretary of the
state board of library commissioners,
has just been in Proctorsville, organ
izing the free town library, helping
the ladies of the library association
to classify and catalogue their books
and instructing them in library sys-
TENS and management. The library
contains some three thousand five
hundred volumes, about thousand
of which were in the original gift
and many of which are very valu-
able. There are several editions of
the eighteenth century among the
number.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-02-19
Don't Let the Comet Scare
You

"No, we aren't all going to be
snuffed out like bugs in the eutomo
logist's bottle when Halley's comet
sweeps its tail over the earth. was
the assurance given by Prof. Edwin
3. Frost, director of the Yerkes OBJ
servatory at Chicago, after reading
a dispatch from Berkelas, CAL, in
which the deadly possibility was SET
forth
Although admitting that there Ii
cyanogen gas in the comets tail, and
cyanogen gas when mixed with ou,
terrestrial atmosphere in sufficient
quantity is as fatal as lightning, the
professor said, or rather intimated
that there's not enough of the poison
in the heavenly vagrant's tail to
make a beetle blink.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-02-19
HARTLAND HILL.

Miss Cora Morse, who has been i'll
for the past six weeks, is a little bet
ter at present.
The Perry children have the
whooping cough instead of measles
as stated last week.
Elmer Colby was in White River
junction recently
Miss Ruth Williams spent a recent
Sunday with her grandmother in
White River Junction.
Mrs. E. A. Morse received show
er of postcards Tuesday, Feb. 8, j,
being her Goth birthday.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-02-19
ASKED AN EXPLANATION.
The Colonel Was Willing and Promptly
Gave the information,

me CoionoI was Willing ana promptly
Gave the information.
In Something of Men | Have
Known" the author, Adlai T..
Stevenson, has this story of a ban
quet attended by John Allen, mem
Der of congress from Mississippi,
and the Hon. John r. Fellows:
"Near the close Allen said: There
is one thing l would like to have
Colonel Fellows explain. He was
captured the first year of the war
and never exchanged, but held as a
prisoner by the Federals until the
war was over. l was taken prisoner
five times and always promptly ex-
changed. / would like Colonel Eel
lows to explain how it was that he
was kept in place of safety while
was always at the front?' When
the applause which followed had
subsided Colonel Fellows arose and
said:
"T am grateful to my friend
from Mississippi for giving me an
opportunity to explain that part of
my military record which | appre-
hend has never been sufficiently
clear. 1t is true | was taken pris-
oner the first year of the war, and
the enemy, well knowing the danger
of my being at large, persistently
refused to release me until peace
was restored. Had / been promptly
exchanged the result of the war
might have been different But
why it was that my friend from
Mississippi was so repeatedly and
promptly exchanged is a question
that until yesterday ] had never
been able to understand.
"It has given me deep concern.
I have pondered over it during the
silent watches of the night. Yes
terday, however, my mind was COM
pletely set at rest upon that ques-
ton by reading the correspondence
Ito be found in volume 74S, page
421, of the "Record of the War of
the Rebellion"-between President
Lincoln and President Davis relat-
ing to the exchange of Private John
Allen of Company G, Fourteenth
Mississippi volunteers. The corre-
spondence covers many pages of this
valuable publication, but / will read
only the closing communication.
"And while John, with new sup
ply of terrapin before him, was lis
tening intently Fellows, carefully
adjusting his eyeglasses and taking
q letter from his pocket, continued:
THE letter will read from Presi-
dent Lincoln concluded the corre-
spondence and is as follows: 'Dear
Jeff-With this l return you Pri-
vate John Allen of Company G,
Fourteenth Mississippi. require
no prisoner in exchange. The Lords
truth is, jeff, l had rather fight
John than feed him p''"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-02-19
HORSES AND HORSEMEN

A promising two-year-old is Young
Justin Morgan Sherburne's } A. NJ
R. 1854; chestnut stallion, 143
without shoes, 900 pounds He has
the characteristics of the old Morgans
very pronounced. In 1909 he took
first premium at the Windsor county
fair and second at the state fair not
registered, } with very gratifying
compliment from the chairman of
the committee. This section of
Windsor county is greatly favored by
having so promising young horse
Just at the time of the Morgan
awakening.
No hopples shall be used on pacing
horses, beginning with the season
1915, and up to that time the device
is to be gradually abolished. This
decision was adopted by the 25th
congress of the national tretting as
sociation at a meeting in New York
recently. "Hopples, says new
rule, "shall not be used in races or
performances against time on two
year-olds or under in 1910 on three
year-olds or under in 1911 on four
year-olds or under in 1912; on FIVE
year-olds or under in 1913 on six
year-olds or under in 1914; after
which time hobbies shall he barred. T"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-02-19
The Bore and the .nosrders.

A bore is a person who speaks
when you want him to listen. and
such person was Professor Benja-
min Praxiteles Brown, autocrat of
the Quentin Durward boarding
house. Through two whole courses
the band of hungry boarders had
lent him their unwilling ears as he
held forth upon spiritualism and
spookism and Julia and her bureau
cracy.
'Tn fact" doomed big Ben, "the
study of the occult sciences inter-
ests me greatly. love to explore
the dark depths of the mysterious,
to delve into the regions of the un-
known, to fathom, as it were, the
unfathomable and"-
"May l help you to some hash,
professor" interrupted the landla-
dy.
And no wonder the boarders
smiled.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-02-19
Raw Meat as a Food for Hens

Those who are familiar with Poul
try know with what eagerness they
eat raw meat OF any kind. This
habit indicates that raw meat is
something their nature demands.
There is perhaps no material better
adapted to the needs OF fowls-es-
pecially in winter-than Green Cut
Bone and Meat Ground together. 1t
is not only invigorating but it con-
tains in form easily assimilated
the verv elements required for the
making OF eggs. 1t will make hens
lay when everythingelse fails.
c. s. Page of Hyde Park, VT,
will send 400 ID. barrel Of Green
Cut Bone and Meat for $3 so,
freight prepaid, to any point in New
England or Middle States. When
writing him please mention this
paper.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-02-19
Human Lives.

There is a story of an old time
king who commanded that "A palace
be built for him to the sound of
music. And richly was his wisdom
rewarded, for when the palace was
done it was found to be the most
perfectly constructed and beautiful
in the world. The builders had un-
consciously wrought the music into
their work and made it finer kind
of work than had been known be-
fore. So it is with human lives.
They are infinitely better built
when the builders have something
to inspire and uplift them, some
thing to kindle mind and soul and
lift them above petty and common
place thoughts and feelings.-Se-
lected.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-02-19
Juvenile

Dorothy Dainty; series-S vols
Amy Brooks.
Forest-land; R w. Chambers
The Spirit of the School; Ralph
Henry Barbour
The Half-back; same
For the Honor of the School; same
Captain of the Grew; same
Weatherby's Inning; same
Captain Club; same
The Young Trailers; Jos. A. Alt
sheler
The Forest Runners; same
By Reef and Trail; Fisher Ames,
jr.
The Boys of Greenway Court;
Hezekiah Butterworth
Cris--the Model Maker; VIM. o
Stoddard
The Windfall; same
Little Smoke; same
Success Against Odds; same
Polly; l. Il. Meade
Their Little Mother; same
Girls of the True Blue; same
A Sailor Boy With Dewey. Edw
Stratemeyer
With Taylor on the Rio Grande;
same
For the Liberty of Texas; same.
On the Old Kearsarge: Cyrus
Townsend Brady.
College Years; Ralph d. Paine.
Helen Grant, Teacher; Amanda
Douglas.
For the Stars and Stripes; E. L
Tomlinson.
A West Point Yearling; Capt
Panl Malone.
A Plebe at West Point; same.
Betty Baird; Anne II. Weikel.
Betty Baird's Adventure; same.
Peggy Owen; Lucy Foster Madi
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-02-19
Very Eishy.


She was fisherman's daughter.
she wore her hair in net. and she
preferred love in piscatorial way.
my love-" he whispered. "you
hold first place in my heart. AL
though I founder about in ex-
pressing myself, my sole wish is
that you will save me from becom-
ing Grabbed old bachelor.
shall stick to you closer than a
1impet,' from you a 'wink'll' be the
road to guide me. Together we will
skate over life's rocks, apd when
I look at your hand beside me
shall say to myself, fortune, was
mine when put "herring" there!' ="
And then the lady dropped her
eyes in sweet confusion and mur-
INJURED:
"Pass the salt"-London Scraps.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-02-19
WOODSTOCK NEWS
New Books at the Public
Library.
Fiction

The Foreigner, Ralph Connor
Alexander the King; Marshall
F. Munroe Kirkman
Alexander the Prince; same
Alexander and Roxana; same.
Keziah Coffin; Jos. G. Lincoln
The Key of the Unknown; Rosa
N. Carey.
Old Rose and Silver; Myrtle Reed
Jonathan and David; Elizabeth
n Stuart Phelps
Walled In; same
The Toy Shop-Story of Lincolni
Marguerite Gerry.
Carlotta's Intended; Ruth McEnery
3 Stuart
Aunt Amity's Silver Wedding;
same
n Where the Laborers are Few; Mar
garet Deland
The Handmade Gentleman; Irving
Batchelder
4 Beasley's Christmas Party; Booth
y Harrington.
Susanna and Sue; Kate Douglas
Wiggin
The Backwoodsmen, Chas. G. D
X Roberts.
Poppea of the Post-offce; Mabel
Osgood Wright
Stradella, Marion Crawford
A Certain Rich Man; VIM. Allen
i White.
Listeners Sure; E. I. Lucas.
Little Sister Snow; Frances Little
A Girl ef the Limberlost; Gene
n Stratton Porter
The Wild Geese; Stanley Weyman.
The Stowaway; Louise Tracy.
The Flaw in the Sapphire; Chas
Synder
Eliza; Barry Pain
The Sword of Dundee; Theodore
Peck
The Shepherd of the Hills, Harold
Bell Wright.
John Marvel Assistant, Thos. Mel
son Page
The Broken Road, A. E. w. Ma
son.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-02-19
Fire in Rutland

The worst fire in Rutland since
the conAagration of 1905 occurred
Saturday night, when the three story
block OF II. A. Sawyer & Co, was
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-02-19

badly gutted, the loss being estimat-
ed at $4,000. Among the losers
are the Globe Printing Co., j. j.
Fay's book bindery, and M. J. Fran
cisco's insurance Office.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-02-19
WOODSTOCK NOTES

About ten inches OF snow fell Fri
day night and Saturday and noun
famous piles left in the streets have
been partly removed.
The postvfhCe department will
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-02-19
wb.n tho Wives Come Homo.

Brigadier Gen Robert l. Meade,
U. s. A, retired. died at his home
in Lexington February IL.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-02-19

The conference committee of the
United States senate and the house
has agreed to fix the salaries of
judges of the recently created Gus
toms court, of which o. NJ Barber
of bennington is to be a judge. at
$1,000 Q year,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-02-19
New England Telephone
and Telegraph Company
ECONOMY IN GOOD PRINTING

If you want the public to believe
that you produce or sell an article
superior to that of your competitor,
then your printing should convey
that impression by it's superiority
This press does work of the highest
grade. 1t is distinctive and COM
mands attention. 1t demonstrates
the fact that quality counts
Elm Tree Press Woodstock Vermont
The shop is in the
esprit of the Age" office
Elm Street
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-02-19
CALL

The forms of the next TELEPHONE
DIRECTORY close positively on
FEBRUARY 10, 1910
If you are resident or prospective
resident of this territory and desire
to have your name in this book you
must give your order AT ONCE.
Call mp our Local Manager in your town, free of
charge, and Agent will be sent to see you.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-07-01
PROMISED LAND.

A person of persistent prominence
in the development of Oklahoma is
the woman homesteader. Since the
first day of the opening of old Okla
homa to settlement in 1889, when
Nannette Daisy jumped from a cow
catcher of an engine on the first train
that brought thousands of homeseek-
ers into the Territory and staked of
a claim in the promised land the
woman homestead / has been occu-
plying a front Sc t in Oklahoma's
march of progress. The instances are
not few where women have staked
off claims, superintendent the cultiva-
ton for years and finally won the
prize-a deed to a quarter section of
land from Uncle Sam.
Miss. Nannette Daisy had been
prominent in Kentucky before coming
to Oklahoma, now more than twenty
years ago, having been an assistant
State superintendent of schools and
with knowledge Of the political game.
From a incident in her life in the
Blue Grass State, in fact, was born
the drama, Gin Old Kentucky" of
which her kinsman was the author.
1t was such a woman who was Okla
homa's first feminine homesteader.-
Arkansas Gazette. ~.