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

The friends of Miss Bracket, of New
York, who has made Stowe her summer
hermitage for many years, will be pleased
to learn that she has rented the Butler
cottage, on the hill east of the village.
for the coming season. and will run it for
the pleasure of herself and friends. Chas.
Litch has been retained as general over
seer.
New milch cows are selling from $50
to $40 each.
The last of the series of public dances
took place at the Ish4m hotel. Lower
Village, on Friday night, with about so
couples in attendance.
Will st. Jock is manager of the E. C.
Bailey farm on the hill for the present
year.
Miss Joanna Mcmahon, on Friday.
closes her sixth successful term of school
in the north district. and will report at
an early day list of meritorious schol-
airs. The reports of other teachers will
be pleasing to both pupil and parent.
Julius Faunce reports an injured foot
An axe did it and he walks in quadrupled
form.
Two teams of two horses each belong
ing to G Z. Burt. drew from the Lang
don saw mill to this village one day last
week. at single loads, 1000 feet of matched
lumber, making 5000 feet for both teams.
Rev. Mr.. Kilburn attended preachers
meetings at Cabot early last week.
1t is not widely known that Theatre
Hall. connected with the Mansfield
House, has some of the finest scenery in
the country, equaling that in many of the
metropolitan theatres. and that PreSi-
dent Arthur, while guest at the hotel
many summers ago, acted as amateur ar
fist upon its theatrical stage, but such is
said to be the fact.
THAT sugar is more useful than salt"
is the subject for this weeks discussion
by the A. B. c. d. club.
Town meeting occurs week after next.
Has it occurred to you what office you
want?
Robinson, the dentist, is in town for
the rest of the week.
The ''Spy of Atlanta" is being played
| by the local dramatic club on Wednesday
and Thursday evenings of this week.
| Asa, son of III. B. Cakes, has been crit
ically sick for some days with pneumo-
MIA, but is now some better.
The farmers meeting held on Tuesday
and Wednesday of last week by the State
Agricultural Board, was regarded sue
cess. Many new IDEAS about sugar max
ing, fertilizing. etc., were introduced.
some of which were approved and others
disapproved by our farmers. Messrs.
| TOwle, Lane, Pember and Cutting were
present, and on the whole the meetings
were both instructive and profitable, and
deserving of a more extended notice than
we have space to give.
| The fellowship meetings at the Con-
| gregational church on Thursday and
Friday were marked with a special de-
gree of interest and profit, and were par
ticipated in by the Revs. Bushee, Wheel
Ell, Kilburn, Anderson and others.
Mark Luvejoy is at home from the Van
Ness House, Burlington, where he has
been clerking during the fall and winter
E. X. Hale is beaming over. A tele-
gram announcing little grand daughter
in the possession of Mr.. and Mrs. Z. III
Stone, of Swanton.
Mr.. c.. d. Morrison, who has been con-
fined at home since last July with sciatic
neuralgia, is on the street again. looking
pale and weary from his long and con
tinued suffering.
The schools of the village closed OF
Tuesday of this week, with the usual pub
lie examination.
On Thursday last, during and as re
suit of the heavy rain, the ice damned
the river above and near Lewis Demas
house at the Forks, overlowed its banks
, and nearly the entire stream ran dow
the road !; passing Bruce's saw mill ant
sweeping away logs, sleds and whateve
loose property that happened to be i'll it
course. The water entered houses, barns