News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-08-09

: Cool weather.
Go to the picnic.
; The dust is settled.
) Haying is about over.
; OvercOats are in demand.
Harvesting has commenced.
Iowle has resumed the stage route.
Advertised letters Hattie Brewster,
G. G. Skinner.
John Gray lost valuable COW re-
Gently from dry murrain.
The temperance camp, meeting COM
mences next Tuesday.
Mrs. Townsend has rented apart
ments in the Cleveland tenement.
Tarble Bros, of KnowIton, P. O.,
were in town the first of the week.
| " Ned" Noyes has gone to Man
sonville, P. O., for a few days vaca-
ton.
Jennie Messer of West Enosburgh,
and Eta Wood of Cambridge, are in
town.
Z. H. BOutelle, of Topeka, Kansas,
is spending the summer with John
Gray.
Matte Sawyer, amanuensis for a
Boston firm, is spending her vacation
in town.
Henry L. Greene and family from
Riverpoint, r. l., are stopping in town
short time.
Otis Griswold is making improve
ments about his house, by way of ex-
terror repairs.
Early apples, cucumbers and chol-
era mOrbus are too common to be
worthy of remark.
Allen Eaton, formerly Of this place,
town the past week.
Wiswell, in addition to his jewelry !
and. stationery business, has put in a
stock of fruit and confectionery.
c. n. Crandau has returned from
Massachusetts, and now wields the
brush once more at his old stand.
c. D. Lane and family were the
guests of T. II. Porter the past week.
! Mr.. Lane is successfully engaged in
| the mercantile business at Port Henry,
y. Y.
The present month is hard one on
the preachers and washwOmen, as it
contains five Sundays and Mondays,
to say nothing of the camp-meeting
season.
The Waddington Family appeared
here Monday and Tuesday evenings,
giving pleasant entertainments both
times. 1t is good troupe and worthy
of patronage.
An exchange says that Surprised
Eyebrows are the latest freak Of the
girls. 1t is done with a touch or two
of black pigment, which give the eye
brows a singularly arched appearance.
At present the prospect for a good
crop of potatoes is so bright, that the
only thing that the farmers have to
growl about, is, that everybody else is
likely to have good yield as we'll as
themselves.
The bottom has dropped out Of the
hop boom, and in spite of all predic-
tions that prices could go no lower I'M
til this wears crop was harvested, they
have dropped from Sl.15 to as low as
20 cents and upwards to 40 for the
best.
Charles Dudley Warner remarks
that - August, Notwithstanding its ro-
bust name, is a sort of fabby, water.
ino-rIace month. 1t is fly time, it is
dog DAYS time, it is filtration time. i
is a period of general listlessness anc
indecision.'
The annual Sabbath-ScaoOl picnic
will be held tomorrow (Thursday) a
, Beecher's grove near Perkinsville. Al
y invitation is extended to all to attend
. The school will meet at the yestry a
| $50 o'clock, where teams will be IL
readiness to convey all to the grounds
Some small boys took a hand car a
, the depot Tuesday, and some way go
it fastened in frog on the main track
J The result was a freight train strucI
it and demolished it. Boys have E'
: right to play with hand cars, and w
4 understand they will be Summarll.
s dealt with if caught in the act.
Let's see, Messrs. Prudential Com
mittee, wasn't something said at til
last school meeting about putting i
, new floors and ventilatOrs at the Acad
emy? Pears to us it will have to b
) commenced "purty quick" in order t
have it done by the time school CON
Y mences. Only three weeks more, gen
e tIemen; and then you know ROge
n won't want to have his school a
ie broken up on account of few carper
tiers being around.
The following are the new officers
IS Lamoille Central Lodge, No. AZ, l. I
" of G.. T. w. c. T, Perry Foster
2 w. V. f., Mrs. f. II. Sherwin; W
S, Frank Porter; w. f. s., ElmC
S Vaughn w. T., Grace Hyde; w. {
'e Preston Fairbanks w. NJ, Herbel
n Fairbanks; w. /. G., Bulah Waite
II man; w. O. G., Charles Goddard
p. w. G. T., T. II. Porter. lnstall'
= ton next Monday evening.
ct The concert by the MorrisviIle Co
y net Band last Friday evening, was e.
/ cellent in every respect. The DO,
n gave MS their best music, and tt
hearty en- cores they received ea'
e time. manifested appreciation by Il
h LARGE audience. The vocal music