News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-20
Johnson.

Judge Samuel Bedding has returned
from POultney, where he has been visit
ing his daughter.
Rev. Ii. y. Bushnell was in town OF
Thursday last.
Our Normal students are still discuss
ing the political situation.
J. II. Knowles was about town nearly
all of last week.
5. A. Andrews and wife came home
from the Capital Saturday evening. Mr..
Andrews returned to Montpelier again
on Monday.
Our farmers are putting up large guam
titles of cider.
The w. c. Il. L. will meet at the house
of Professor Campbell on Tuesday eve
ming.
Tommy Laraway came near meeting
with a serious accident the other day.
He got on to-the end of alog which Mr..
Holmes was drawing, swung up under
the axles of his wagon, when the reach
i'll some way flew back, striking Tommy
a severe blow. He is now doing well.
George Kelley, who has been sick for
for some time. is out again.
Wyman Wetherell and family have
moved to Waterville.
There is some talk of laying out Il road
across the hill, above what is known as
the Batch saw mill.
We are sorry to learn that Fred Leland
is having a hard run of typhoid fever at
st. Johnsbury.
The new steps in front of the NJ. E.
church nave been treated to a coat of
paint.
Henry w. Story has moved into the
tenement recently vacated by Wyman
Wetherell.
Mr.. Austin, of Newport Center, was
again in town last week, bent on buying
the Allen hotel stand and fitting it up
for a public house.
Mrs. NJ. Ii. Hunt has been putting a
roof on the south side of her build
the past week.
Frank Laraway has gone to market
with a car of potatoes.
Miss Laura Cowles is at home for Il
short vacation.
o. w. Stearns & Son are laying in a
good stock of lumber for their butter
tub trade.
, L. j. Smith has bought of Mrs. L. NJ.
Fullington the land known as the pike
lott near L. n. WitherelT's.
There is Il rumor abroad that Harrison
Gregg has taken unto himself a wife.
A meeting of those interested in the
lecture association was held at L. j.
Boynton's last Monday evening. A
course of lectures was resolved upon
provided a sufficient number would inter
est themselves. The meeting adjourned
until Friday evening next.
Pay your election bets at once.
Rev. Mr.. Crudginton will deliver 4 lee
ture at Normal Hall next Saturday even
ing. Subject, The Life of Christ" end
''Temperance,'-a double lecture, both
Admission-adults 20 cents; under II
years of age 10 cents.
Mrs. Frank Miller is visiting at her
fathers, Edgar Annis', for a short time.
Through an oversight, no report was
sent to your paper last week of the closing
exercises of the intermediate village
school, Miss Nora Putnam teacher, which
were held i'll the vestry of the Cong1
church On Saturday p. M, Nov. Sth. As
they were of a nature to show better by
lamp-light thar daylight, the vestry was
darkened and The lamps lighted, thus
giving all the effect OF an evening per-
Torrance, without keeping the small
folks out at night. There were enter
tanning class exercises in which we learn
ed just how the cobbler makes a shoe,
and also all about the various industries
of life's workers, each clad in its appro-
pirate costume, and bringing in a temper
ance lesson ut the close. A fairy queen
came out and assembled her throne, and
while Miss Laura Bickford at the organ
discoursed sweet music, eight white-rObed
fairies with their golden wing, came out
and danced in a fairy ring, or marched to
the music, holding alOft their wreaths of
pink, white and blue. Each asked a boon
from the fairy queen, which was granted,
and when at the close of Il suppOsititious
year they came out in a second scene to
report the result of their efforts, the moral
lesson was perfectly obvious. In striking
contrast with the glitter of these scenes,
WAS the forlorn little boy, all rags and
lIpatches. who came out and told mis- pitiful
Story of being ''~n0evr9ss cn7ru: Four
girls in raiment and with accessories be-
fitting the four seasons, told each her
story in charming thyme and with q
~distinctnes that showed very thor
Ough training. Everything passed off
finely, rejecting great credit, not only
ON the teacher who managed the under
taking, but also Oh the bright lads and
lasses who did their best to entertain us,
and succeeded so well. In addition, we
have only 10 say that their examinations
showed they had not taken the time for
these things from their studies, but that
il was all extra work.