News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-12

a sociable, perhaps the last of the
season, will be held at the vesry Fri
day evening next. New sugar will be
served and 4 pleasant time may be ex-
pected.
Ed. LaPage has given up returning
to the west and will remain at HYDE
Park, having fitted up apartments in
his fathers house suitable for house
keeping.
The Selectmeu have called q special
meeting to be held Saturday, April
2lst, for the purpose of electing first
and second constable; those elected at
the last meeting failing to qualify.
The first wagon seen on our roads
since last fall, was the hotel team,
which came out last Thursday, after
being stored away 1872 days. Travel
by sleigh is still in fashion however.
The new fve-cent niclIe commands
quite Il premium now. As high as ten
cents has been paid for them in this
village. 1t is said Conductor Park
hurst is getting up 4 corner in them.
Forepaugh's advance agent is going
through the State making preliminary
arrangements for the appearance of
the great show next summer, and will
probably visit LamOille county in June.
Geo. Parker caught a crow in his
hands the other day while coming from
Cady's Falls. There was a flock Of
them on the road, but this one got
caught in some brush and could not
get out.
Many Of our readers will be sur
prised, on removing the snow, to find
not particle of frost in the ground.
You can now reach your parsnip bed
without difficulty, though YOU may
find them growing under the snow.
Our harness maker, St. John, IS do
ing a good business these days, always
finding enough to do. This speaks
well for Pete: but still it is not strange.
as he is Il good repairer and as a man
utacturer can't be beat in these parts.
Give him a call and be convinced.
Rev. Mr.. Bowen will close his Iabors
in this place next Sunday In the
morning he will preach a sermon on
his ''successor,' and the evening SER
vice will probably relate to his labors
of the past year. He will leave town
Monday morning.
Mrs. Judah Boyes, Familiarity known
as . Aunt Judah, living with her
son Lucius, was found in bed last
Sabbath morning, stricken with apo
pleXy. One side was paralyzed, and
rs she is nearly so years Of age, but
little hopes can be entertained Of her
recovery.
The annual tearing up time is near
the time when the good housewife de-
lighteth in upsetting things generally |
the time when the head Of the family
searcheth the English vocabulary in
vain for words suitable to the occasion,
and is compelled to draw on the foreign
supply to relieve his mind. And yet
if there is one thing a woman likes
more than another, it is turning the
house upside down once or twice a
year.
If this town doesn't get q safe it
will not be the fault of the various
manufacturers, no less than four
agents having been here in the past
few weeks, to say nothing Of large
number Of communications from vari-
Gus other concerns. OF course every
one represents their safe the best. |
Selectman Cheney has had to stand
all the talking (the other Selectmen
living out Of the village), and if he
hasn't learned all the merits and de |
merits of the various safes made, it is
not the fault of the above agents.
Quite a number still continue on the
sick list. Mrs. L. b. Sherwin has
been very sick with fever, but APP |
peals to be somewhat better now. +. /
II. Sherwin, station agent, was taken |
suddenly i'll while at the depot last
Thursday, and had to be taken home.
Careful treatment broke up what bid
fair to be long run of sickness, and
he will soon be at his post again.
Mrs. Geo. Wilson is suffering greatly
from a tumOr. Almon CrOwell has two
children dangerously sick with pneumo-
MIA. Many others are sick with colds,
and the physicians seem to have their
hands full. We understand the sick
people at the Falls are improving, in
Guiding Moses Terrill, whose life at
one time was despaired Of.
We had the pleasure one day last
week Of meeting on the train that whole
souled and joyial Methodist, Rev. J.
ID. Reeman. He is President of the
Vermont Methodist Seminary and Fee
male College at Montpelier, and was
on one of his missionary" tours. The
Elder is putting in solid work for the
Seminary, which is resulting in great
good. The institution is a good one,
and under the able management Of
Mr.. Beeman, with his amiable wife as
Preceptress, and strong faculty, is
worthy a position in the front ranks Of
our educational institutions. Mr.. Bee
man is DO stranger in these parts, his
first appointment as preacher being
4 Hyde Park.