Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1913-01-18

i, Billings farm has received the
steel for two new bridges to take
the places of the wooden ones that
now cross the brook between s E.
Kilner's place and the highway
bridge
| Windsor County court took a re-
cess Thursday until three weeks
from next Monday, when Judge
Taylor will return here to conclude
the business of the term.
| The reliable new fire alarm has a
way of letting its wants known if any
thing isn't working just right hence
the single blast heard at about A 80
Tuesday afternoon. The electric
batteries were getting weak, but in
a very few minutes after the warning
note the alarm was in perfect order
again.
The ups and downs of the mercury
the past week have made all kinds
of weather. though the zero mark
hasn't yet been reached. And there
is no snow to give even an appear
ance of mid-winter mostly it has
been ice everywhere for a week
making hill travel difficult and dan,
gerous, but automobiles are still
doing business on the level high
ways.
DIR. w. @. Bailey of Boston is with
Mrs. Bailey at their place here for
days.
| In review of Three Capital
Books of the Wilderness" in The
Outlook, Col Theodore Roosevelt
writes as follows of recently pub
lished volume, The Wilderness oil
the North Pacific Coast Islands," by
Mr.. Charles Sheldon. who passed
the summer in Woodstock.
MIR. Sheldon is an outdoor nat
uralist, a Iaunal naturalist, as well
rs great hunter. His present vol
ume Is one OF series he Is writing
dealing with the animals OF Alaska
and the Northwest, series which
when finished will give us more in
formation on the natural history OF
the most interesting animals OF the
Northwest than any or indeed all
other volumes contain. Mr.. Sheldon
and Mr.. White - whose book shall
next consider are big-game
hunters of the. best type. They are
not professionals, but in point of
har linood. of skill in their craft, of
liability to fend for themselves, and
of readiness to meet every emergency
and every risk, it is not too much To
say that they are fairly entitled to
q, me in the line of descent straight
Town from the Boones and Crock
etts, the Kit Carsons aud Brldgers,
of the old days Each of them by
preference hunts entirely alone.
/ Each is as competent to care for
himself as any Indian The book is
admirably written by man who
loves the mountains, the great woods,
and the stormy seacoasts, and who
describes with power and charm
what he has seen. He is the direct
reverse OF a game butcher; he cares
nothing for big bag He kills
only what must be killed His book
is of practical value to the natur-
alist."
Hiram l.. Powers. brief notice
of whose death was printed last
week, was born in 1888 in the old
we'll house," which once stood
opposite the Woodward factory. This
house his father, IRA Powers, FIRST
occupied when he moved here about
the year 1880 In 1856 Hiram
Powers married Miss Sarah Morgan
of Claremont, N. H and Of their
eight children three are now living
and reside here : Ella A., wife Of
Fred Squires; Flora A., widow of
Myron II. Grandy; and Maude E.,
wife of Alfred S. Clapp Mrs
Powers also survives her husband
For over fifty years Mr. Powers lived
in the so-called Powers house "
| opposite the factory. A dozen years
aRo he moved TO the lower end OF
ths village. and for tbs past sight