News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-02
ST.J.&l.G.R.R. TINE TABLE.
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County Sabbath School conventiC
at the Con'l church Thursday.
B. A. Calkins has been imprudeI
enough to put a lot of vegetables
our office cellar.
We want a good printer. Stead
employment and good wages, if salts
faction is given.
Smoke the celebrated "No. )" C
gars sold by B. A. Calkins. The bes
five cent cigar IN the World.
George A. Cheney has pair {
calves seven months old that weig
Ills lbs. Isn't this pretty good?
The Ladies of the Spiritualist SociC
ty will hold a sociable at l.. w. SpaulC
ings, Friday afternoon and evening {
this week. All invited.
j. n. Camp, of Chicago. was
town on Saturday. lie formerly at
tended school at this place and wa
one of the boys with Josiah and Others
The Free Press is responsible for tn
remark that leaves are falling thi
year, as usual. We have found
blind man who is prepared to contra
dict abe statement.
Attention is called to the advertise
ment of the Scientific american. 1t !;
the leading scientific journal of the day
and should be in the hands of ever,
artisan and mechanic.
Boys and girls that want to "caper'
will please take the sidewalk until We
get our printing Office . fixed up" fol
the purpose, and when we get every
thing ready, we will let them know.
The best line of ladies' and gents
fine shoes in town is at Calkins'. Dc
not forget that in conn lection with his
grocery department he keeps a tul
line of boots, shoes and rubbers. and
sells them l0a0.
Captain KenfieId saws farmers would
do better to SOW more turnips than
they do. 1t is a paying crop. He
has raised 400 bushels this season from
a half acre of land, and has just ship
ped car load to market.
We publish this week the advertise
Aent of that old and reliable farmers
paper, the Country Gentleman. 1t is
without doubt the best farmers journal
published, always chock full OF good
agricultural reading matter.
The Hyde Park boys were over last
Saturday and lost the laurels won on
their own ground the week before.
Now if both parties are not satisfied,
let them assemble on the Fair Grounds
and there survive or perish.
Casey & Boomhower have given
number of very successful exhibit
tions throughout the county Both
did remarkably well, as did also
C.. A. Spaulding and other members of
the company. The Clarionet solo by
Z. Z. Whitcomb was especially fine as
was all the music under the manage
ment of Paul Bros.
Leon, little son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Geo. Goodrich, aged two ears and six
months, died on Thursday, after a
long illness. He was first taken with
summer complaint, then whooping
cough, followed by lung fever. The
little fellow seemed to be mastering
them all and was thought to be gaining
the day before he died.
. III. A. Stearns, of New York, and
II. NJ. Bailey, of Glens Falls n. Y,
were here last week and visited the old
iron ore mines near Gilmore Mountain.
They carried away piece or two of
the ore or rock, but didn't talk much.
James Russell drew 735 feet of logs
from DingwalPs lot in Eden, and Frank
Cutting drew 1874. This must be so,
for we have Dams word for it.
Major Stafford has been assigned to
the special examiners division, which
will take him away from Washington
most of the time, looking up question
able cases. This is position seldom
given to a new man and speaks highly
for the good impression made by the
Major. His work will probably be
Vest, mostly. These examiners are
not allowed to 60 into their own states.
B. A. Calkins is now receiving Sc
Iect Providence River oysters fresh
from the beds, and solid meats; and
by the way, Calkins keeps everything
in the grocery line from clothespin
to a barrel of pork, and what you can
not fnd any where else he is sure to
have. He has had a long experience
in the business, and knows what the
people need, and he keeps the very
best goods to be had in the market,
and his prices are ala0ays the Io1UeSt,
and he has the prettiest store in town.
Call in and see if you don't believe
us.
ACADEMY NOTES.
Miss Alice Bushee took the highest
rank, 81, in the AcademicAl depart
ment.
The sociable Saturday evening at DR.
Thompson's was we'll attended, and al
report pleasant time.
Miss Bertha Whitcomb fell down th'
cellar stairs last week and hurt hersel
so badly that she was obliged to leav'
school we hope only for short time
One of the boys got enthusiastic owe
the GIRL he took to the sociable thu
other evening and in describing he
costume, said ''her dress was all shear
ed up in front"
Public Lyceum last Friday was wei
attended, The paper, conducted b.
Misses Holbrook and Tenney, was
model one in every respect, and tn
debate was good.
Webster gives the definition o
whiskers as ''bushy tufts of hair on
mans cheek" The great lexicogra
pher must have been mistaken thi
once, for, judging from the cheeks o
the allied thirteen, whiskers must b
the invisible energizing of somewhat
Rhetoricals Friday afternoon wer
interesting and showed some talen
among the students. After the regu
lar exercises an opportunity was give
the bows to show their skill in extern
poraneous speaking. Fifteen respond
ed and most of them handled subjects
such as Garfield /; Lincoln; The AID
vantages ofRailroads and Benefits o
Extemporaneous Speaking, well.