News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03
HYDE PARK.
Splendid sleighing.
A Happy New Yeari

} The days are lengthening.
Leap year. Now's your chance, girls
LaPage has hung out new s. Gro
Gerry and Restaurant sign.
The annual election for Directors @
the Bank occurs on Tuesday, Januar
Sth.
F. P. Keller, Will Roddy and Hal
Hyde, all of Burlington, are stoppin.
in town.
Geo. Flint, Of No. Troy, formert
with Hardy, was in town the first O
the week.
Gertie, the five-years-old daughte
of Leroy Jones, died last week of mem
braneous Group.
1t is $4,000 that Lewis Boyes offers
for the Cleveland farms, and no
$500 as stated last week.
Annual meeting of Union Church
pew owners next Saturday at p. m
All pew owners should be present.
Judge Page has been confined to his
house the past few days with a severe
cold, which settled on his lungs, but
now appears to be improving.
The annual session of the Grand
Lodge of the Independent Order OF
Good Templars will be held at St.
Johnsbury the 10Th and 18th of JAN
uary next.
State Auditor Powell will be at this
place Thursday evening and Friday
morning for the purpose of allowing
accounts. A very convenient time for
out-of-town parties.
The mail train was delayed three
hours Tuesday night by the breaking
of wheel on the tender, when near
| WolcOtt, and the owl tram some two
hours by the giving out of spring on
the engine.
Rebecca's Triumph, one of the pref
test dramas of the day, will be given
at the Town Hall Thursday eve., by
the Morrisviile Dramatic Club. You
will miss pleasant evenings enter
tainment if you fail to take it in.
John Stewart, of Johnson, who
claims TO be cousin of A. L. Stewart,
of New York, and is prosecuting a
! claim against the Stewart estate, will
take dispositions before Judge Taft, of
the Supreme Court, on January 10.
Randall's annual ball was largely
attended, 1o7 couples being present.
A large delegation came down from
st. Johnsbury In Pullman car.
Everything passed off pleasantly, and
altogether it was a very recherche
affair.
Now the Boston Post has this to
offer: " 1t is said that Nasty of the
Toledo Blade is going to Vermont to
investigate liquor prohibition. If there
is any way To get liquor there, in spite
of the law, we'll bet all we own or can
borrow that Nasby'll find it out.
Those who "trip the light fantastic
have plenty of opportunity so to do
this season. Following the New Years
ball, comes the Masonic levee, then
the Musicians ball, and finally the
Spiritualists' dance-all at the Ameri-
can House within the next few weeks.
The Campbell reunion will hold their
second annual gathering at Mrs. Eli
B. Rand's, on Saturday, January II,
1884, at ten o'clock a. m. All mem
bers are requested to be present at
that hour, as there is much business to
be transacted. Oysters will be served
together with the picnic.
The physicians of the Lamoille
County Medical Society are requested
to meet at the Hotel in Hyde Park, or
/ Wednesday, Jan. 9Th, at one O'Clock
: p. m, sharp, to transact important
, business pertaining to the practice o
: medicine and surgery in Lamoill,
County. Let there be a full attend
ance. w. Y. Bliss, Sec.
: Friends to the number of abou
: twenty assembled at the residence o
: Mr.. and Mrs. Enos II. Sherwin, Fri
day evening last, to remind them o
n the fifth anniversary of their marriage
Had the evening been pleasant larg
; number would doubtless have bee
, present. Those who brayed the Gle
4 ments, however, passed very pleas
. ant evening. A number of valuabl
presents were left as visible tokens {
n esteem, among which might be mer
\ toned a beautiful hanging lamp,
book shelf, pin Gus hion, book of poems
: and last but not least, a broom, W
presume, given for Mrs. Sherwin
:, special benefit, to be used as she think
y best. The presentation was made b
! Rev. G.. l.. Story, and feelingly n
I sponded to by Mr.. Sherwin, thankin
u all for their friendship and hoping
III may long continue. Enos is our ST
ton agent, and as such gives excellel
er satisfaction. He has many friends a
9. along the line who join with US in wis
ing himself and wife many happy +
re turns of their wedding anniversary.
~ The co-worker of the Clipper. in Il
:, cause of temperance, who wrote fro
HYDE Park last week over the name
Temperance, don't appear to
10 quite satisfied with the way tempe
I'D ance and religion are being run in tn
1 DuI2u. III
u he is a faithful and devoted friend
e. the cause, but believes it to be horq'
V. to speak of its Importance from Il
ne pulpit, or to there discuss its evils,
as discuss the possible remedies thereto
o. Far be it from our intent to say th
the remarks of Temperance" in I
n gard to his devotedness to the eau
OK were insin ;ere, yet we do believe, wi
at deep regret, that such communicate
70 as above referred to, afford encourag
lis ment in the wrong direction. The p
e. sition Temperance" takes in rega
I'd to the way temperance reform shou
y be conducted, reminds US Of the m
gho, when awoke from sound slul
Der by the cry of his wife that thu
st buildings were in flames, instead
ty giving the alarm, and using bis bC
IN efforts to suppress the fire, very calm
4 (Hke "A man of policy) wishing to