News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-08-30
ETDE PARK.

Apples are scarce and dear.
Hop picking is now in order.
How about that new sidewalk?
The days are rapidly shortening.
Business is good with the doctors.
Jennie Allen is sick with typhoid
fever.
y. p. Whcelock and wife returned
to Boston, Monday.
Painters are applying the brush to
L. H. POrter's house.
August does not seem to be going
out like a bakers oven.
Why not fix up the town hall? This
is published by request.
Ella CroweIl has gone to Lowell,
Mass, to visit relatives.
Rumor has it that the Canada Pa
ciiic has its eye on this road.
August is long month, but Sep
TENDER has more Saturdays and Sun
days.
Three of "Jud" Jones children
are sick, one quite seriously, with
diphtheria.
Henry Greene has been chosen as
signee of MorrilIo Noyes' estate of
Burlington.
\. L. Flintom and wife . took in "
the Spiritualist camp-meeting at Bur-
lington last week.
Fifteen hundred copies of Child's
Gazetteer were issued for Lamoille
and Orleans counties.
Two car loads of stock and II 900
pounds of butter were shipped from
this station Monday.
Commencing next Monday, postal
notes may be obtained at the post
Office for three cents.
New floors have been laid in the
Academy. Further improvements will
be made next spring.
Emma Ferguson has been no worse
for few days and her many friends are
quite hopeful that she is some better.
Engineer Hoyt, of the FOWL train,
is laying oil ON account of sickness
His place is filled by Leon (Mush)
Dubray.
1t is no compliment to an old couple
to say that they live together as happy
as children. Some children are always
wrangling.
Fred Child and Mae Clark were
married at Craftsbury Monday, Aug.
goth. They will take up their abode
in this village.
\ special train runs to the Sheldon
Fair Thursday and Friday Of this
week, leaving this place at 7.15 q. m.
Fare. round trip, 10 cents.
The demand for dinner at the depot
restaurant exceeded the supply Mon
day, about 40 dropping in. Usually
ten to twenty take dinner.
G.. l.. Waterman, Esq, spent last
week in New York City, looking W
facts in the great Stewart case, for his
client, John Stewart, Of Johnson
The lot on the corner Of Church
street has been enclosed with wire
fence. making a great improvement
over the old dilapidated picket fence
School opened at the Academy to
dav Wednesday, with the usual at
tendance. Prof. Hulburd and Miss
Mabel Noyes are the teachers IL
charge.
Sixtv-four years ago last Monday
Aug. p, 1919, a heavy frost killed al
the corn in VcrmOnt-sO says ,Squlr'
/ Boardman. y slight frost IN various
places Monday.
Lee Wellman, a young nephew o
MP. Cheney, received savage bit
ON the leo few days since by " Ner'
= waterman" DR.. Randall dressed tn
wound and at last accounts it wa
l doing well.
4 Clara Fairfield, wife of John Hal
died Sunday morning after llngerin
= illness. The funeral took place Tues
t dav. Rev. Mr.. Wheeler, Christia
/ minister, preaching the sermon. In
e remains were taken to Hyde Far
; Plains for interment.
God giveth quietncss at last"
5 III. Robinson, acting solicitor
c the Treasurer, advertises to sell
d public auction, Nov. 23rd, the plac
II occupied by a. NJ. Goodrich IN th
: town. 1t was set off to the Unite
States i'm satisfaction Of a judgmel
5 recovered against Lewis Clemens,
s. ais. in 1852. See notice elsewhere.
re Telegraph poles are exactly ten roc
n apart, and thirty-two of these pole
II consequently make mile. In Ord(
} TO find out how fast a railway train
going, all that is necessary is to recol
o the time, and when you have counte
r, thirty-two poles you have gone a mil
N and your watch will tell you the tin
le taken to cover the distance.
ID Saturday night some one put a do
N Of shot into A. L. NOyes' dog g Skip
The charge did not kill the dog, b.
Iv he was badly wounded, and an end WI
r nut to his sufferings, by killing hin
:. the next morning. We are no gre
ID admirer Of dogs, but think if they a
(. to be killed, that the slayer shou
" make sure work of it, and not ha
= kill a dog and let him suffer sever
~ hours before finishing him as was Il
ii case with . Skip" Cruelty to anima
a is the worst kind of cruelty.
ee In the distribution of the tax pa
Ill by savings banks into the State Trea
ury for the last six months of Is,
under the old law and now being d
tributed 20 towns by State Treasur
Dubois, amounting to S24, 876.56, tv
of hundred and thirty-three Of the t'
he hundred forty towns will participat
at Lamoille county receives $388.22,
of yided among the several towns as f
&c lows: Belyidere, 2 cents; Cambrids