News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-12-27
HYDE PARK.
Bread was made the staff of life,
To aid the man in walking,
Woman was made to be a wife,
And do her husbands talking

Read the clubbing list.
How did you like your present?
Best prints six cents at Rogers.
Carroll Lillev is teaching school at
Albany, Vt.
Lucian Scott and Geo. Cleveland are
still occupants of the Jail.
Rogers keeps as fine line of gro
ceries as any merchant in LamOllle
County.
r. P. Putnam and Phil. Wood have
returned from Burlington, having fin
ished up their job there.
Turning over a new leaf, forming
new resolutions, &C.. are in order as
the new year approaches.
The regular meeting of the Good
Templars' Lodge will be held on Fri
day evening of this week.
Loren Manly returned from Hyde
Park, Mass. Saturday evening, where
he has been stopping the past three
weeks.
We are pleased to announce that
Barber NOyes, who is i'll with typhoid
fever, is very much improved at the
present time.
After this month 25O pounds is to be
the limit of a single piece of baggage
that may be checked on any New En-
gland railroad.
a temperance meeting at the vestry
Sunday evening was largely attended,
which evidenced, perhaps, the interest
taken in the cause.
Great improvements in the rolling
stock, tracks, ETC., of the st. j. &
L. c. railroad are announced, real
ization Of which will be hailed with
delight by the patrons of the road.
Israel Trudeau, of Coventry, was in
town Christmas, and as usual paid for
his paper for the coming year. MI.
rTru,Recu - succcaaCuNx engaged II, the
tanning business at the above place
L. G. Boyes, of the Twin Mountain
House, is negotiating for the pur-
chase of the Cleveland farms. He is
one of the bondsmen and we under
stand offers $500 for the farms, pro-
vided his fellow bondsmen release him
from the bonds.
Vennor again inficts himself on the
public thusly: The phenomenal char
acter Of the present winter, held forth
by me for the past six months,
seems about being verified. Further,
the red and ruddy tirt in the sky
concerning which so much explanation
has been attempted-seems, to my
way of reasoning, to indicate terms OF
unusual warmth during the latter por-
ton of the present month and much OF
January. Yes, even summer warmth
in mid-winter. But March and April
will probably give US the cold and
snow lacking through the first half OF
the winter.
! The Christma exercises at the Towr
| Hall Christmas eve, passed off pleas
antIy. The hall was tastefully trim
med with evergreens, and brilliantly
lighted with two Aurora Electric
Light Torches, kindly loaned by
NJ. B. Eaton. A kitchen with fire
place was arranged on the stage
The numerous presents were hung OF
the walls and about the chimney anC
piled up on q table. Preceding thu
: distribution of gifts was an exercise b,
the Sabbath School entitled, "FollOw
ing the Star" IN which all the scholar
took part. 1t was composed mainl,
of texts and responsive readings, inter
: spersed with music by choir ant
school. REGULATIONS by Rosie NOye
and Stella Waterman, opened ant
. closed the exercises. The number O
: presents was large and it took tn
combined efforts of II. NJ. Mcfarland
, w. \. Bliss and r. W. Hulburd, as
e sisted by numerous children, to dis
tribute the same. Almost everybod
= was remembered, either by relative
OF friends Pew O. l.. Story receive
an envelope welI-fIled with money
and Miss Bertha Sawyer, organist {
, the church, a handsome present fror
the congregation. The entertainment
concluded with singing - Happy We
p by the school.