News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-11-08
STOWE.

Mrs. w. 2. Bailey and mother, Mrs. |
Smith, are in Deertield, Mass.
Marked improvements are being made |
by Mr.. and Mrs. WI. Seaver about their |
premises.
A. b. Nutting is acting nurse to old
Mr.. CIOugh, of Waterbury, who has been
hard sick with pneumonia.
Mark Lovejoy is night clerk at the
Van Ness House, Burlington.
Mr. and Mrs. o. w. Butler and dangh- |
our boT9 frer,, +t,s-eey.5fiousIy defeated
on saturday by the Wolcotts at the base
ball tournament held on the fair ground
at Morrisville. We are sorry. Had they
observed a friendly request and beaten,
the score of 80 to II might have been re-
versed.
Mr.. Porter returned from Minnesota
on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome Ayers, while re-
| turning in the night from the soldier
reunion recently held at Waterbury,
we're thrown from their carriage at the
"narrows" below Waterbury Street, Mrs.
Ayers receiving some very severe lnlu-
ries. Their horse took fright 1T the APP
preaching midnight express.
The remains of Mrs. Lyman Smith, OF
Waterbury Center, mother OF the laIe
John Smith. were Drought A0lS AOi ~
terment on Monday.
The person who picked up the small
cable chain an the road leading TO tn i.
Forks will greatly C~hhge ny returning II
/ to Alfred May.
The circle and sociable of the L..
Aid Society will meet with Mrs. Z. l.:
= McMahon on Thursday afternoon ana
evening of this week. cordial invita-
V ton is extended to every one.
Bv close estimates made by the differ
emf manufacturers of lumber in town
there have been manufactured for ship
. ment the past year, up to October ISL
U I 725 900 feet, and for home consumption
25O,OOO feet, all of which may be classet
is as plain lumber. Besides this there have
T. been manufactured l 200 600 feet of clap
d.; boards.
We congratulate w. S. on the u poun(
II Young lady added to his family last week
It Now the nag must travel faster than
has been wont.
L The temperance lecture designed 70
Il last Sunday evening has been postpone
two weeks. 1t will be given by Rev. MI
n Kilburn in the auditorium of the Metht
% dist church. Subject, Drinks and Drlht
ne ing Palaces"
Int A. NJ. King, a young gentleman fro1
Ohio, preached at che Congregations
church last Sunday.
The 4OOth anniversary of Martin l.
- ther will be remembered at our church,
all on Sunday next. A union service beir
- held in the evening.
We often hear the cry of ''hard time
" coming from our farmers. apparently /
, duced by the low price of butter, pc
CROPS, the dullnees of the pork markt
10 the stringency of money, etc. but t
Ivy "hard times may, in n great measur
&C. be attributed to other means. a conslde
Gil alton, of which is vital to the success
either dairying or agriculture. AS m;
ars ter of interest we will state that by
asst carefully figured estimate OF some OF
ted leading merchants, heavy dealers In Zee
Oes etc, that there are annually used
ats Stowe 200 tons of western corn ard me
red at A cost of S32 per ton, making to
of sum of 50 600. There are also cOnsum
lnC about 200 tons of bran and fine feed,
the an average cost price of SIS per u
lie making a total of $1,000. In other wor
ing there are annually expended in torel
iets feed about $15, POO. not including
lie flour imported, which must be Us
last YEARLY to the amount OF l2OO or l9OO u
relS. at an average expense OF o.
ans, barrel. an approximate sum VI SlC'
by Add to the above the cost of hired ne
etc. and S3O,0 900 will not any more II
No nav the ordinary Outgoes of our
= ~ bandmen for help and feed, much
has being entirely unnecessary. But we
+ho make one more estimate, and careful
quiry will prove it to be nearly corr
and Stowe is not an isolated case,
wing other towns are in like erroneous wa
one There are tobacco and intoXlca'
oled drinks locally used in their various Tor
hXi- aside from medicinal purposes, at
WIN ticient expense to our people, to annu
ause support and keep i'll full running OF
ali the schools and churches i'll town.
the 400 users of tobacco, in various WI
both old and young, the minimum c
A. Indirectly, can not be much less than
Tic While the maximum often reaches
HIGH as $50. or $50, making very
the average of so, and this $1,000 alone
the pleasure of using the weed:
IL be what can be said about the guam
quality and cost of the liquors made
+ nv of even by many who find it ditficu
'baIe broad and clothe their families, but {
who themselves of their lnalienable rlSt
Julia grumble?
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