News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-14
HYDE PARK.
Ice is now being harvested.

Ice is now being harvested.
Meal 81 so per hundred at Strong's.
Mrs. H. w. Hendricks is visiting
friends in Massachusetts.
Principal Hulburd is spending vaca.
ton at his home in WatervilIe.
The juveniles are all happy now,
enjoying vacation. School com
mences Feb. 25th.
Mrs. H. NJ. t. Cutler of Illinois,
Will lecture in this place next Wednes-
day evening on temperance.
Town meeting is but three weeks
OFF. Suitable candidates for the va
riouS offices are now being discussed.
! Two or three of our young men were
favored with invitations to accompany
the -Morrisville ladies in their leap
year ride. OF course they accepted.
Rev. S. Donaldson of johnson will
preach at Union Church next Sunday
| morning at 1890. Rev. Mr.. Story
will preach at No. Hyde Park at the
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The FOWL train" was delayed about
five hours the other side of Cady's
Falls Wednesday morning, by the for
ward trucks of freight car getting
off the track.
The board of town auditors will at
tend to their duties at H. NJ. McFar-
lands Office Monday, Feb, 18th, at 9
O'Clock a. m. Let those having bust
ness with the auditors attend to it
promptly.
Rogers finds one half column space
in the News & CITIZEN too small, and
so branches out this week with full
column in which he will make an
nouncements to orr readers during
the year.
Will be sold at public auction, at
Cost, large line of wolf robes, all
my knit goods, ladies' knit jackets,
Nubian hoods and Jerseys; Misses
cardigan jackets, scarfs and mittens,
at Strong's.
The mails are now burdened with
tons of seed, tree, AMI plant cata-
| logues, and the lucky editor is daily in
receipt of magnificent offers of fifteen
cents worth of mammoth pumpkin
seeds for SIS worth of advertising.
All the holidays of 1884 will fall on
Thursday or Friday as follows: Wash
ington's birthday on Friday, Feb. 22d;
Good Friday, on the 18th of April;
Decoration Day, on Friday, May 80;
Fourth of July, on Friday, 4th;
Thanksgiving on Thursday, Nov. &c;
Christmas on Thursday, Dec. 25th.
While drawing ice last Thursday,
Charley Whitcomb's horses and sleds
broke through the ice. 1t was with
great difficulty they were got out, be-
ing in about 10 feet of water. The
harnesses were considerably broker
and TIE horses badly chilled. They
were in the water about two hours.
The oyster supper given by the
Good Templars last Friday night was
pleasant affair. Although not public,
a number of the Good Templars'
friends were present. The bivalves
were served in good style, to which
all did ample justice. The remainder
of the evening was spent in social in
tercourse.
If, for various causes due to the
carelessness of the sender, an article
sent through the mails fails to reach
it's destination, the blame is invariably
laid upon the hard worked clerks of
the postal service. Discussing this
matter an exchange says: "There are
many people in the world who appar-
emily believe that whatever is dropped
into the post-office, no matter how in
securely it may be encased or fasten-
ed, or how iliegibly directed, it is
bound to reach the person for Whou1.it
is intended in perfectly good condi-
ton.
To-day is St. Valentines day. AL
though in the country the observation
of this day is not regarded as extern
sively as in the city, yet the number
of missives exchanged by the rural
lads and lasses is by no means small.
The assortment of elaborate valentines
this year is considered more varied
than in several seasons before, and
the old style of perforated paper has
gone out and in its place are present
ed beautiful designs, painted on puffs
or pillows, that are simply elegant, and
strange to say, they do not cost as
much as the old kind. The vulgar
and trashy sheets that sell for a penny
are made more hideous than ever.
The dude is among the new figures
treated in that class, which is sent to
friend and foe alike.