News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-08

| Guhll y. NdlluID HIS uccutu dll HIS
real estate in this town to G. S. Page.
Mrs. Durgan and Mr.. Blodgett were
married last Wednesday evening at the
house of II. X. Leighton, her sOn-in-law.
Fred C. Currier has decided some four
or five acres OF the Richmond Hooper
farm to Mrs. Flora Hooper.
Mrs. Scott, who was for some time ill
at aunt Lucinda Dodge's, is GONZALES
cent.
| The week of prayer is to be observed
| by holding meetings at the different
churches alternately each evening.
School district clerks should at once
attend to the matter of obtaining blanks
and making return thereon to the Town
| Clerk of the amount of taxes raised in
| their respective districts during the year
past, as required by an enactment of the
| last Legislature.
The regular convocation of Tucker
Chaper F. and A. NJ, was held in this
place last Friday.
B. L. Austin succeeds G. 2. Jones sup
erihtemdent of the Congregational Sab
bath school.
A very neat card, containing the text
of the day, and the time of services. &c,
was given to each person who attended
church at the Baptist church last Sun
day. 1t is pretty SOUVENIR.
We were greatly disappointed as to the
| readings of Mrs. Purple Tuesday evening,
she being ill with a severe cold.
A petition is being circulated here by
the G. a. R. post urging Congress to
pass the Mexican pension bill.
The Good Templars' lodge seems to be
doing we'll. Three new members were
initiated last Monday night.
Those who are to attend the next term
of the Normal school are already engag-
ing rooms and boarding places. The
prospects of the Normal were never bet
ter than now.
We observe that Walton's Vermont
Register for 1885 does not notice the
change of the firm of Cowles & Page to
Holmes & Cowles, and that the glove
business of Mrs. Parish is not mentioned.
Miss Emma Brown, of Bakersfield, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. E. o. Story.
S. A. Andrews is away from home,
and will be for some time, he having
been appointed one of the appraisers
and commissioners on the estate of the
late Mr.. Hulburt. of Underhill.
Among the many valuable Christmas
presents distributed at Normal Hall on
Christmas night, not the least was a nice
fur coat and cap to the Rev. MIR. Smith.
The following named persons were
elected as officers of the Baptist Sunday
school for 1885: Superintendent. John Ell.
Burnham; Asst. Supt., Mrs. l.. NJ. Full
ington; Secretary, Nellie Foster; Asst.
Sec, Homer Kneeland; Treasurer, Jed
Pearl; Asst. Treas, John Rand; Libra
rialt. Frank Holiness; Asst. Librarian,
William Warren. The old corps OF teach
ers were elected.
B. S. FullingUon is at home for the
present. having closed his engagement
with Stafford & Wetherby on account of
the continued ill health of his wife.
L. j. Smith end D. D. Morgan have
taken the contract of FL. & w. f. Waters
to manufacture the Waters patent butter
worker to their order.
Can anyone tell us just how the high
way law was left by the Legislature?
We shall be glad to hear from anyone.
Miss Mary Winslow has resigned the
position she has been holding in the New
England Conservatory at Boston, and is
now teacher in the grammar school at
Hyde Park, Mass.
Miss Laura Bedding is filling a posi-
ton at the conservatory of music in Bos-
ton, and pursuing her studies in music.
Ed Dow and wife are living in Charles
ton, Mass. Ed is at work for the Bah
bitt Soap Co.
Following is the order of the closing
exercises of the Normal School.
SUNDAY MORNING, JAN. IL, 1885,
Sermon before the Graduating Glasses,
by REV. E. w. HATCH. East Berkshire.
MONDAY TO THURSDAY.
Oral and written examinations of the
classes.
THURSDAY.
Entrance Examinations.
THURSDAY EVENING.
B Exhibition.
Our Republic and its Future,
CHAS. A. RITTERBUsH.
The Frenchman and the Flea Powder,
EFFIE S. COWLES.
The Children's Prayers,
ADA L. SMITH.
The Arctic Martyrs,
DELLA A. THOMPSON.
Jerry, the News-boy,
ALICE C. MCCLAREN.
The Last Hymn, NANCY O. PATTEN.
The Blacksmith's Story,
CARRIE J. COwLEs.
The Street Crier, ELMA A. DAVIS.
The Festival of Melody,
ROXA l.. GATES.
Drafted, LYDIA M. HARDY.
The Old Sermon, MYRA [. SMITH.
The Bells of Lynn, MARY j. SAWYER.
FRIDAY, 1.3O p. NJ.
Graduating Exercises of the A and Sem
iOr Glasses.
81 FRIDAY EVENING.
Band Concert and Reception by the