News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-01-25
MORRISNILIE.


noa Lodge, No. s. Wednesday,, Jan
3Ist. lor work on 2nd and Sd degree:
Mrs. Carrie Cutting, wife of Rev
II. p. Cutting, died Jan. 21st, i
LeOminster, Mass, after 4 very brie
illness.
The days are lengthing at the rat
Of Il minute and half per day; ant
The cold has been strengthening al
most TO robustness.
The Spiritualists of Morristown anC
Hyde Park, will hold their annua
business meeting at Mr.. Charlie
Shaw's, Saturday next, ut l o'clocl
p. IN.
Rev. J. D. Emerson will deliver F.:
iec,Gre at Academy Hall, Monda.
evening next, subject, 'Spunk.
Commences at 80. Admission l,
cents.
We are creditably informed tina
there are now living in this town
twelve men between eighty and NINETY
years Of age, and fifty between seventy
and eighty
II. r. Mack, the wide awake anC
square dealing manufacturer of head
stones, monuments and general mar
bic work at Hardwick, has an ad
gertisement in another column.
Send your orders to J. c. Griggs
Waterbury, for seWing-machine need
les to fit any machine. They scnC
just the size you order at cents each
or six for p cents. Needles sent by
mail.
The store of Champeau & Hill was
re-opened to the public Thursday last
with \. j. Boynton in charge. The
goods are to be closed out and the
business is for sale. Read the adver.
tisement in another column.
DO you want a new sewing machine
if YOU do 90 and look at the White
sold by L. W. Buzzell, of Stowe. 1t
is the best. easiest, and stilIest run
ming machine on the market. Lyman
will sell you one at 4 fair price, too.
Not long ago S. L. Gates, now
three score and ten years old, with
the assistance of q young man, sawed
six hundred spruce logs in one week.
Captain Eben Barrows, still older, can
chop two cords of four foot wood in a
day.
Joseph Burke, Familiarity known as
ssUncle Jo," died on Thursday, last.
at the advanced age of ninety years.
He came into this town in 1880. An
aged sister survives him. she being
the last Of tie family, who were among
The early settlers OF this town.
we are informed that an entertain
menl Of some kind is contemplated
for the purpose Of raising funds with
which TO improve the interior OF the
Town Hall. This is certainly 4 move
in the right direction, and we hope il
may be successfully carried out.
Hon. O. II. Munson of Grinnell,
Iowa, is a guest at Deacon A Gallnp's.
BIZ. Munson is q son of Ammi Mum
son, who settled in Waterbury, nearly
century ago. lie will visit his many
friends and relatives in Vermont, be-
fore returning 10 his Western home.
One Ofthe breqkmen on the st. J. &
/. c. r. R, fell from his train while
making the flying switch into the
gard at Hyde Park, Friday night, and
received injuries of which he died
early Saturday morning. y full
account IS given in Hyde Park items.
Revival meetings will be held in
the 81. f, chapel, this week, COM
mencing Tuesday, 2 p. m, and will
be held each afternoon and evening
until Saturday All the people are
invited to attend. Afternoon meet
ings commence at , p. m, and even
Ing meetings at p. m.
Messrs. Fairbanks, Blodgett, Car
penter, and Wilder of St. Johns
bury, have been present during the
gospel meetings of the past week, held
ct the COng'I, church. These meet
ings have been largely attended
throughout. The Methodist people
hold meetings during the remainder
of the present week at the Chapel.
Glen Sturges will give AZ exhibition
Of stereOptic views in town, next
week, of which full notice will be
given in due season. it will be re-
membered that young Sturges was
obliged to leave his studies at Dart
mouth on account of sickness, and has
not yet fully recovered. His object
in temporarily going into this business
is to rcplenish his pocket that he may
renew his studies. 1t is hoped he will
be literally patronized.
The 18th inst, about 80 of Mr.
and Mrs. Harrison GOodale's friends
of Morristown and vicinity, met al
their house to enjoy an evenings sur.
prise visit. They came laden with the
good things Of life. After enjoying 6
social time they partOok Of a plentiful
repast, then followed 4 few very
appropriate remarks with prayer by
the Rev. Lyman Sargent. All returned
home feeling that lit is more blessed
to give than to receive"
Ten couple of the young people OF
the village went to Wolcott, on Friday
evening, to attend the entertainment
and chicken-pie supper held by the
ladies OF the COug'l. church. Several
from here had part in The exercises
The solos BY Miss Belle Hall werC
well received by the audience, as were
the recitation I'VE TwO," by Mis-:
Cutting, tue defamation "Sparticu.
to the GIadiatOrs," by Ziba W. Boyce
and the defamation Pyramids no
all Egyptian" by A. J. Titus. Tin
chicken-pic supper was patromized t.
8 pretty "fulI" degree, and all return
ed, reporting first-class time.
w. ). Allen, who has taken in
good deal Of the " estcrn and South
ern country in the past two years 0
more, is now located in business a
KYLE, Texas. lie has formed part
nership with a Virginia man, the
having recently put up large build
ing in which they are carrying on h
grocery business. We are glad +
note this indication Of prosperit
dawning upon another of Morrisville'
sons. By the way, MorrlsviIle stool
is showing up pretty well, as you ma.
learn by enquiring after the boys who
for the past ten years have been drift
ing away to wider fields.