News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-21
HYDE PARK.


consequent colds.
Blacksmiths are doing thriving
business this icy weather.
Twenty-Five cents per bushel for po-
tatoes makes the farmer feel blue.
Geo. d. Sherwin and wife of Bur-
lington, were in town over Sunday.
The thaw has again set in, and as a
result, the roads are perfectly hor-
rid."
Temperance lecture at the. church
this "Wednesday evening by Miss
Cutler.
Hiram Bishop has taken possession
of the Crandall place, recently pur-
chased by him.
" Under the Clouds" is being re-
hearsed nightly, preparatory to an
early presentation.
A large number attended the regu-
lar monthly service at the Catholic
church last Sunday.
L. S. Small has been appointed
County Treasurer, and H. NJ. McFar-
land County Auditor.
Richard Moiies is the new watch
man at the engine house. ''Jock" is
transferred to Swanton.
c. S. Page AMI his son Hullie start
ed Monday on southern trip. They
will be absent until the first of March.
The mail train east was delayed
some five hours Tuesday, by the de-
railment of two cars on a freight train
near Sheldon.
There are five Fridays in this month,
and some one who has made an elabor-
ate calculation, publishes the state
ment that this will not happen again
until 1912.
Rev. S. Donaldson of johnson, oc-
cupied the pulpit of Union church Sun
day morning, and delivered very
able discourse, at the close of which
the sacrament was administered.
The board of Civil Authority met
last Saturday and abated taxes. The
whole amount abated was less than
SO, the smallest amount we under
stand since the town was organized.
The warning of the coming town
meeting is posted. 1t is a lengthy one
and should be carefully read by all the
tax payers Copies are posted at
the usuA places in various parts of
the town.
The freeze-up which followed the
thaw of last week, made good skating
on the river, and Saturday last num-
Der of young people enjoyed themselves
hugely, and we hear some ''bent" the
Sabbath in the same way.
Lime is said to be a preventive of
rot in potatoes in the cellar. Those
that are decaying should be picked out
of the pile, placed by themselves, and
we'll busted with air-slacked lime,
which will soon dry up the rotten por-
ton.
Strong will not have public auc-
ton, as enormously stated last week.
He doesn't propose to give Grimes a
job just yet, but will sell at cost a
large line of wolf robes, all his knit
goods, ladies' knit jackets, Nubian
hoods and Jerseys; Misses cardigan
Jackets, scarfS and mittens.
Read NJ. o. Heath's new advertise
ment this week. In addition 10 real
estate and personal property offered
for sale, he announces an auction on
Thursday. Feb. 28th. at which time he
will sell large amount of personal
property. He also notifies all persons
to whom he may be indebted, to pre-
sent their bills for payment.
The attempted shooting ARRAY .
recorded in the Free Press as occurring
sin that part of Hyde Park known as
the Diggings," did not occur in this
town at all, neither are the partici-
pants residents of this town. The
affair occurred on Ober Hill in the town
of Eden. about as far from the So
called "Diggings" as the home of the
writer of the item is.
Report of school district No. 10,
S. B. Waite, teacher: Whole number
of scholars, 80; average daily attend
ance, % 5-14. Scholars having no
absence, Myrtle Backum, Merton
Baokum. Arthur, Everett and Oscar
| Campbell, Anna Blake, Elmer and
Clinton Crowell, Maria Hyde, and
Elhridge Collins. Absent one-hali
day, Lila Wheelock, Mabel Collins
Eugene Wood and Hattie Hyde alb
sent one daY each.
We have received a specimen copy
of A. NJ. Purdy's Seed, Plant anC
Tree Catalogue. 1t is beauty. The
colored plates of his new Seeding
Raspberry the CRIMSON BEAUTY anC
his ssLatest Of Al" strawberry, The
JUMBo, are very fine indeed and should
be seen by every lover of fruits. Tht
information given on growing straw
berries, raspberries, blackJerries, and
grapes, &C., is very valuable, while
his prices for plants, trees, &C., are a!
low as any reliable grower or dealer
The Catalogue or specimen copy o.
his valuable monthly paper the F,'ui
Recorder, can be had by dropping ,
postal to A. NJ. Purdy. Palmyra, N
The town report is now in the hands
of the printer and will be issued in few
days. The most important report 20
rather that which the taxpayers scru
tinize most closely) is that of Oversee
of the Poor. We have examined tn
r account for the present year and fin,
that the amount expended by hin
is S1270.71 OF this amount th,
Overseer has been repaid 1920, an,
he should also be credited with Sl63.
e 95. which is due the town from variou
= parties, and nearly all of which i
guaran eed the Overseer. 1t will b
+ seen then, that the expense of main
: tanning our poor the past year is
: little over $1,000.
We hope our townspeopie will Civ
the matter of dispensing with the dis
} trict school system careful considera