News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-25

will be held as usHal at the several
churches.
Read the advertisements. They
tell you where goods are to be had at
the best advantage.
Cadets Hoibrook, Woodwork and
Burke are spending their vacations
at home.
A watch meeting will be held at the
Methodist church Wednesday evening
next.
t. c. Rider, for many years a car
rage maker at Cady's Falls, is stop
ping with his son Elmer.
A Christmas Sunday school con-
cert at the Congregations church next
Sunday evening, at half past six.
The academy students have been
discussing the tariff question. Wheth-
er this settles it or not remains 10 be
seen.
The insurance man, Dodge, is out
with the neatest calendar for 1885 we
have yet seen. 1t is gotten up by the
Continental Company.
Elmer Rider, while at work in the
woods recently, received savage cut
in his leg from an axe which flew
from helve in another mans hand.
Don't sit around and talk hard
times. Every man can find work at
some price, and so cents earned is
better than day of idleness.
Christina still comes only once
year,-not too often to put aside bus
mess and join in making the occasion
pleasurable to yourself and those next
TO you.
Our correspondents are requested
TO send in q part of their locals, at
least, earlier in the week. We want
TO hear from Johnson and below Mon
day mornings.
A. A. Webster's house on the
"Plains'' was burned Monday morn
ing. The fire caught up stairs while
the family were at breakfast. The
building was well insured.
The remains of Mrs Norman SAT-
ford, late of Middlefeld, Conn. ac-'
companied by her sons. Charles and
Jed. c., were brought to this place
for interment on Saturday last.
People at this season of the year
should look well to the pipes and
chimneys. Cold weather calls for hot
fires and good sound pipes and CHM
neys. Probably you will put it off
until next year.
DR.. Hall was recently thrown from
his sleigh when a short distance from
the village. The horse righted things
up and returned home, leaving the
Doctor to take walk, the first, prob
ably, he has had this season.
We are indebted to George Currier
for fine bird recently captured by
him. 1t is a cross of the owl and
hawk and worthy of good setting,
which it will have. George has
killed three of these birds during the
winter.
George W. Durkee, of Middlefeld,
Conn.,, sends us check paying for
his paper TO January /, 1887, for
which he has our thanks. There are
quite number who will oblige us very
much by sending what they are al
ready owing. Our patience will not
endure forever, and in some cases we
are liable to make the "fur fly if the
hint is net taken.
Remarkably Geld weather during
the past week is reported from all sec
tons of the country. By several Their
mometers here mercury dropped to
26 degrees below zero on Friday.
A slight change for the better began
Sunday, and Monday there was quite
fall of rain.
The Whitmore G Clark combination
entertained large audience at the
Town Hall Tuesday evening. Many
were present from neighboring towns.
Clark and blank" were, of course,
the favorites. The orchestra did
some good work. The trombone solo
by Nathan Carl was one of the most
attractive Ge9.n.ss g The progTarnIS,
here 26 yeass - O. Wednesday eve
ming.
Thomas Watts, brakeman on the