News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-03

Mrs. F. P. Hill and son have re-
turned from their New Hampshire
visit.
Mrs. VIM. Page is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Frank Keller, at Bur-
lington.
The Democratic county convention
will be held in this place Wednesday,
the 10th.
Little Miss Mary Brigham is spend
ing a few weeks with relatives at
Burlington.
Mrs. John A. Child has gone to
Lyme, N. H., where she will remain
several weeks.
A Sunday school excursion, to some
point along the line Of the railroad, is
under consideration.
Corn is not as large as in some
years at this time, but is looking splen-
didly as to color, etc.
Camp-meeting commences August
18th. The grounds are being put in
order for the occasion.
Rev. f. c. Crane returned to Maine
Tuesday. His wife and family will
not return for several weeks.
Miss Fannie Sumner and a Mr..
Ford, from Brooklyn, N. Y, have
been stopping at V. d. Fitch's.
Travelling on the roads nowadays
is disagreeable because of the dry and
dusty condition of the road-beds.
The Hyde Park Water Co. are
making improvements in the way of
putting in new pipe, repairing, &c.
Hiram Bishop injured one of his
hands quite badly the other day, pierre
ing it with a fork while loading hay.
The engine on the express blew out
a cylinder, between this place and Nor
risville, Monday last on the westward
trip.
On Sunday last a horse belonging
TO Otis Griswold broke through the
floor of the barn and was quite badly
injured
Let the farmers remember the Re-
publican caucus at the town hall next
Saturday night. Come early so as to
secure good seats.
The interior of Judge SmalPs house
has been undergoing repairs the past
few weeks. Improvements are also
being made at H. NJ. Noyes' residence.
People are now talking about the
continued dry weather and wish for
rain. Still fair weather is just what
is needed to gather the rest of the hay
crop.
T. J. Boynton of Johnson, is gen.
eral agent for the Phoenix Mutual Life
Insurance Co., of Hartford, Conn.
Ii. A. Bailey will act as agent for this
town.
Taxpayers will observe the notice
Of the Town Treasurer in another col
umn. Taxes paid or or before the
first of November next get the four
per cent. discount.
An exchange says the Guinea fowl
will eat potato bugs-a point for those
who do not use poison, and a caution
for those who do. They are great
foragers and rarely scratch.
Hon. John w. Currier and family
of No. Troy were in town Tuesday
evening, on their way to Saratoga
and Lake George. They 60 over
land" by private conveyance.
Mrs. Barber Noyes and family have
returned to ST. Johnsbury-either to
escape whooping-cough or congratu-
late Barb. Oh "Uncle Luke's" nomina-
ton, we are not certain which.
Sheriff Lanpher closed up d. C.
Smith of No. Hyde Park Saturday. he
not being able to meet the claims of
HI. A. Slayton & Co., E. C. Hersey &
Co., and Woodman, True & Co.
Mrs. DR.. Grover has sold since last
March 127 pounds of butter, in addi-
ton to what was used in her own fam
made from one COW. That
COW is i regular Jumbo on butter.
There's no prospect of a circus in
these parts this summer, but Jumbo is
announced to be at st. Johnsbury the
18th, and we presume the railroad
will run excursion trains on that day.
n. l.. Flintom and A. j. Smith are
on the cripple list this week. The
former came in contact with an OK,
: and the latter with a hand car. AL
though unable to labor much, both
are able to take their rations.
Don. Doty, who went to Groveton,
n. H., some weeks ago on a visit,
liked the place SC well that he has To-
Gated there, having secured a situa-
ton with the same ace that his
brother Will is connected with.
w. H. Smith, cashier of the Ex-
change Bank at Bowling Green, Ohio,
is taking his first look at the Green
Mountains, being on.a visit to rela-
tives in this county. He spent the
past few days in town with Captain
Kenfield.
Any of our readers contemplating q
trip to the sea-shore or the noun
tains will do well to read the excur-
sion rates of the st. j. g. L. &. r. r.
published elsewhere. The rates are
exceptionally low and the time for
which they are good is all that could
be desired.
Mr.. Chas. Buck and wife of Roch.
ester, N. Y, have been stopping al
the American the past ten days. Mr..
Buck is agent for the vel, known
Vacuum Oil concern of Rochester, anC
has been very successful during hi:
stay here.
Some fine specimens of herds-gras'
has been left at the post-oftice thu
past week. One stalk brought in by