News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19
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on Saturday of each week. The parties
are about evenly balanced with but little
chance of local elections next fall.
Mr.. Farr and Mat SlaytOn will return
to Grand Haven, Mich, in a few days.
The death of Mrs. Fred Patterson, of
consumption, aged 81 years. occurred on
Sunday night.
The house and grounds eff the Mt.
Mansfield property are being put in
proper shape for the reception of guests
the coming season. large force of help
having been employed there the past
week.
Frosts were discovered on Friday and
Saturday mornings.
George Raymond, II. J. Harris, A. c..
Raymond. and A. p. Holmes. attended
the grand lodge of F. and a. NJ. held at
Burlington.
Mrs. DIR. Boynton was in town last
week.
A competitive system was established
last spring in the order of Good Temp
lars, the leaders being Bert Corse and
Mrs. c. NJ. Watts. A supper was the
forfeit which will be served in accepta-
bic a la ice cream and cake style on Sat-
urday night at the lodge rooms of the
NJ. E. church.
Fishing has been pastime enjoyed by
many, with Master Fred Lathe as the
luckiest chap, with a reported speckled
finney weighing 1G ounces.
Philo J. Warren and BERTHE Godfrey
report themselves as recently hauling 40
loads of manure, 20 horse loads and 20
OK loads. distance of 80 rods, and
shotcling the same, in five hours.
The mountain road has been the subject
of repairs the past week.
Several bridges in town were undergo
ing repairs the past week. Many thought
that stone work would have been cheap
er in the end than wood. A matter of
cents (sense) with the town.
A Republican caucus on Saturday cleo
ted Chandler Watts. I'd. p. ID. Pike and
A. c. Slayton delegates to the State
Convention.
Mr.. Kendrlc Jenney is called to Can
ada by the sickness of his daughter. Mrs.
Jackson.
Joseph Conants son of DR.. Conant. of
Illinois, is in town for few days.
The Mt. Mansfield House is to open
the Goth inst.
Miss Bracket, and party, from New
Y DIRK. arrived on Saturday night and at
mansion, where they will be domiciled
for the coming season.
A subscription paper at the telegraph
office is awaiting signatures for SlOO to
establish telephone between Waterbury
and MOrrisvilIe.
The NJ. E. Ladies' Aid Society will
meet with Mrs. j. 3. Slayton on Wednes-
day of next week, and Il cordial invita-
ton is extended to all.
Willoughby Lake is receiving its annu-
al delegation of our citizens, G. L. Chur-
chill and others forming numerous fam
lily party were in attendance upon Its
pleasures last week.
George Watts and wife returned last
week from California.
III. W. Sargent started on Monday for
Preston, p. O., induced by his mother
severe sickness.
At the new church next Sunday it
Will be Children's Day. The Rev. Mr..
Hayford will have an address especially
for them. The church will be suitably
decorated for the occasion and good at
tendance is bespoken. Once in two
weeks a sermon and other exercises are
to be read by some young lady or gen
| tleman.
A Republican paper of our State sees
| fit to say that in the choice of Mr.. Blaine
the party has passionately thrown away
Il chance OF success at the coming cleo
| ton. 1t says he is the weakest possible
candidate in every doubtful State, and
much more of like import. If, in its
last weeks editorial of column or two,
it expresses its honest convictions and
sense of duty in giving so far as it is ca
pabIe, a cold chill to the campaign, then.
| in the Judgment of some OF its readers i'll
this locality. its usefulness as an eXpon-
ent of Republican sentiment is nearing
its end. That disappointment and re-
greet should follow the defeat of ones IA
Yorite is natural, and in no way censur-
able, but to sulk and make a general ar
raignment of the candidate and the
methods by which the result was reached,
! specifying nothing unfair or dishonor-
! able. tends to nothing so much as
/ TO giving aid and comfort to-thc en-
| envy. such a course needs only to be
persisted in to ensure in its behalf an ac-
! tive canvass as an efficient campaign ally.
! In the months to come MIR. Blaine S
record will undergo all the tests and re-
ceive all the scrutiny needed. He can
| be convicted of all when the evidence
tjustifies conviction, and there is no neces-
sity for making haste to endorse charges
never yet sustained. A man three times
successfully the leading candidate of his
party, and that party not wholly made
up of knaves or fools, may fairly be pre-
sumed to have about his person some
very excellent traits of character and
quite up to the average American citizen
Never mind the recklessness of a Boston
clergyman standing up and publicly say
ing that Mr.. Blaine was surrounded and
supported by all the rascality of the
country. He may have believed it. Most
other men know it to be as big a false
hood as any clergyman or layman is ca
pable of uttering. The State of Maine
believes its favorite to be as free from
reproach as any other public man, cleo
ting him repeatedly to the highest office:
within its gift.
: As already seen the campaign bids fail
to be lively one. But 1t will be cast
where Greek will meet Greek. False
hood and misrepresentation didn't sue
ceed well in the last election. 1t has ar
| earlier start now, but we think the sea
son will be shorter than the average.
, j.. S.