Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1913-03-15
WOODSTOCK NOTES

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Palm Sunday will be held in the
Catholic church next Sunday morn
ing at the usual hour Of service.
A. e Spauldiug is clerk in-J B.
Carbino's store. succeeding Carl
Laurie.
The selectmen have made these
appointments Of town officers for the
coming year Fence viewers, 0 @.
Pratt, Lewis English second grand
juror, SIS. Winslow poundkeeper.
William Burns; surveyors of wood
and lumber, @. w Sayward, III HI.
Gilbert; weigher of coal, Charles
II Furber; special constables, @. j
Paul, j. P. Gilman.
The Y M, G. A. meeting will be
Omitted next week, on account Of the
union service in the Methodist
church ON Tuesday evening.
Wednesday and Thursday were
good sap days and several sugar
makers were ready for it, Reed
Brothers having tapped part of their
Hartland hill orchard. Will Gilbert
of Prosper was also ready with his
sap buckets. but the rain of Thurs
day night and Friday seems to put
damper on the prospects OF large
maple sugar yield this season.
The Woodstock Electric Co. has
been doing a large business for
several weeks in thawinG water
pipes, doing this work for about
City services The biggest job was
chasing the ice out of $500 feet Of
one and one quarter inch pipe, which
tnok three hours, nsing from 90 10
lh0 horse power The water pipes
at number of farms were tRawed
out. but in most cases they froze up
again Immediately.
Constable J D. Wheeler of Bethel
brought a string of five Migrants tol
the county Jail SATURDAY., sentenced
for intoxication.
One or two resent snowsand blows
recall the March blizzard of 1883.
just % wears ago this week. All
other storms in the recollection OF
most people were very mild doinQs
compared with it. Snew began
falling Sunday the llth, and CON
tinued until it reached a depth Of
32 inches on Wednesday; on Mon
day moring the wind started up and
became gale in the afternoon and
evening, pilinR up obstructingdrifts
in every direction No mails worth
mentioning reached here, for several
days Rain fell 9on Tuesday ofsthe
following week and then, the tops of
fences began to appear.
Louis st. Gaudens. sculptor, and |
brother Of Augustus ST. Gaudens,
died at the home of his son Homer,
in Cornish. N H Saturday. March |
Is, of pneumonia. The body was
taken to Cambridge, Mass, for cree
nation and the ashes wills be placed |
beside those of his brotheri in Ascut-
ney cemetery at Windsor Mrs
Mary Grace Canheld. a friend of the
family, went,to Cornish on Monday,
and the Rev H L. Garfield was the
officiating clergyman at the funeral I
service on Tuesday. Louis st.
Gaudens was a sculptor of much
talent The largest original com
mission executed by him was the six
categorical figures, each II feet high,
in the new Union station at WASH
ington
The Christian Endeavor Society
of the Christian church will hold
their meeting at 6.l5 Sunday, in
stead Of p. m.
The village schools were closed
Friday on account of an outbreak Of
chicken pox and will reopen Mon
day, March "a. This period will
take tie place Of the regular Easter
vacation.
George w. Clark and family, who
have been living on their farm in
Felrhville the past year, have re-
turned to their home on South street
Miss Harriet E Hatch is in Salem,
Mass for few weeks
Mrs. Mary Grace Garfield went to
Burlington Thursday to attend a
meeting of the executive committee Of