News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-09-03
HYDE PARK.

| HYDE PARK.
Mrs. II. X. Sumner and sister, Mrs.
Richardson, of Brooklyn, are stopping
at V. D. Fitch's.
C. F. Randall entertained his guests
by a social hop last Monday evening.
W. l. Paul furnished the music.
The close season on cartridges ex-
pired Monday night, and sportsmen
are already interviewing the birds.
As Mark Twain says, this country
has more varieties of weather in a
shorter space of time than any other
country OH the face of the globe.
This is the year for the seventeen
years Iocusts, and it is about time they
were getting in their work if they are
going to maintain their family record.
deacon" Wright has opened a
meat-market in the basement of the
brick hotel. Everything is neat and
clean. He runs cart Mondays and
Thursdays.
The band visited "The Films" Sat-
urday night, receiving hearty well
come from Mr.. and Mrs. Fitch and
the guests. Coffee, cake and ice
cream were served.
Eat, digest; read, remember; earn,
save; love, and be loved. If these
four rules be strictly followed, health,
intelligence, wealth and true happi-
ness will be the result.
E. H. Elwell, editor of the Portland
Transcript, Miss Mabel Elwell and
Miss S. A. Gilpatric also of Portland,
and DIR. Daid Fox and wife of Clinton,
Conn.,, are stopping at the American.
A meeting of the Ladies Aid So
ciety will be held at Mrs. A. V. Wis
wells Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 9th.
All members are requested to be pres
ent as important business will be
brought up.
Rev. E. J. Ward leaves for his an
nual vacation this Thursday after
ternoon, and will be absent two Sun
days. Next Sunday Rev. Mr.. Hall
of Mcrrisville will preach, and the fol-
lowing Sunday sermon will be read.
Phrenologist-Your bump of i'm
agination is abnormally large sir. You
should write poetry. Citizen-I do
write poetry. Only yesterday 1 took
a poem to an editor and that bump
you are feeling is where he hit me.
| Don't bear on so hard.
The Perry brothers lost horse last
week under very singular c!rcumstan-
ces. The horse was hitched to a rake
and standing in the woodshed, COM
menced kicking and breaking a thill
which pierced the animal so badly that
he had to be killed.
This years August cold wave was
an unusually cold one in all parts of
the country north and west. For
several days the past week the tenn
perature has been very low. One or
two slight frosts visited this section
| doing little or no damage.
If the law relating to the removal
of noxious weeds and bushes from the
highway were enforced, great change
would be observable in many portions
of this section of country. 1t should
be the free will of all to carry that into
effect for their own interests as well as
for the public eye.
A slight increase in business is re-
ported throughout the country with a
tendency toward a more solid basis.
Tie iron trade which has been very
much depressed, perhaps more so than
any other branch of business, has
taken very decided turn for the
better. This is certainly encouraging
after the general depression of the
past year or two.
Our town clerk as is we'll known is
an expert butter buyer, but it is not
generally known that he is looming up
considerably as a frst-class lawyer.
The way he defended five young men
charged with stealing apples last week
al Lowell, would do credit to the
ablest member of the bar. He cleared
the boys and the encomium he receives
on every hand may be the means of
his taking up the study of the law.
School opened to-day with good
, attendance, Prof. Hulburd again as
Stunning the principalship, with Stella
f Waterman as assistant. There is
work enough for three teachers, and
we think it poor economy to put the
work upon two. 1t may save few
: dollars, but it will not benefit the
scholars as far as knowledge is con.
cerned. The committee have put the
rooms in good order, re-plastering
and papering the main the room, which
makes it very cheerful and pleasant.
Fannie E. Beecher, who for the pas
seven years has been Judge Pages
assistant at the Probate office, died al
the residence of her father, Harvey A
Beecher, Esq, in johnson, on Monday
: evening, August 81, of typhoid fever
e after an illness Of only eight days
; Funeral at the Baptist church in John
. son, Thursday at II a. m. An extra
: car will accompany the mixed trair
leaving here at 10: Is to accommodate
: those of our village who wish to attent
{ the funeral. The ear will lie set OF
: at Johnson and the engine of thu
r local freight west, arriving at johnson
2 at $50 p. M, will return with thos
a attending the funeral at that time, al
: irving at Hyde Park about 2 AS.
Y Chit CHAT.-The Academy ha
purchased an organ. ICY" Prouty'