News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-02-05

frencn recently sawed for him three an
ohe-1ourth cords of Is inch hard WOO
IN ~ minutes. Previous to this Josepl
mas Deen regarded as man of truth.
Stowe has its usual attendance at thu
FSpifltualist convention, being held a
waterbury Street.
Ms. Cassius Scrbner is in Boston Wis
lung, and for medical assistance.
torty-five hundred cakes of ice-thick
ana clear--have been removed from the
MOTEL pond. and things are still icy.
y. Il. Luce, Peter Lovejoy, Pat Chap
man and Walter SlaytOn attended the ice
carnival, and what else? at Montreal last
week.
a scarcity of water for numbering in
terests. notwithstanding the heavy fall
and winter rains.
The new saw-mill at the Forks is up
and will receive its machinery this week,
the clapboard and shingle machine only.
The building now erected is 40 feet
square.
ENLISTED for the War; or the Home
Guard" will soon be rendered by the
Stowe temperance dramatic club. OBJ
serve further notice.
In answer to the question of A. J. Hart
| will say: My cattle have been diseased
in the same way. L have never failed to
cure them by giving them the following !:
a very little sulphur and saltpetre, not to
exceed one desert spoonful each.-ssdxed
with all the bone meal a".l Shorts they
will or ---------~- VIM. FOLSOM,
East Greensboro.
Two deaths occurred in town last week.
Mr.. Hiram Chaffee, aged 20 years, and
Mrs. China Nutting, widow of the late
Guy Nutting, aged SO years. The FIJI
neral services of Mrs. Nutting were held
at the church on the Branch on Sunday
afternoon, attended by the Rev. Mr..
Thurston, while brief services were held
at the late residence of Mr.. Chaffee by
Rev. Mr.. Anderson at the.same time.
Prof. w. A. Deering TtrhHgton,
will speak to our people at the Town
Hall on Friday night of this week, on
matters of education. Subject. 1.-The
Ideal and Real.'' The lecture is said to
be both interesting and instructive, and
worthy of a full house, and is to be void
of entrance fee or collection.
Information is wanted about the new
highway surveyor law, that the wisdom
of the local fathers may not be con-
founded when the hour Of its interpre-
tation cometh.
The cattle of A. j. Hart, which were
mentioned in recent issue, as having a
propensity to consume his buildings.
fences, etc, are recovering. under the in
fiuence of bone meal, suggested by DR..
FL. A. Cutting, secretary of the board of
agriculture.
Forty-one births and 81 deaths last
year indicate a change of census favor
able to Stowe, were it not for greatly
reduced number of marriages in town in
the same period, the number being 10,
instead of 16 as reported.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Mcmahon and Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Stafford design starting for
New Orleans on Thursday of this week.
They will go by the way of Albany,
Cleveland, and Cincinnati.
A heavy fall of snow last week We'd
nesday, with the thermometer 10 to II
degrees below zero; a thing hardly
known before.
Albert Camps cat, after an absence of
two years at its new residence on Luce
Hill. recently returned to its old home in
the village, distance of five miles.
The location of the grange store is to
be changed about March LIST from the
Luce block to the room now occupied by
the barber shop.
Mr.. Byron Russell, of Massachusetts,
formerly of Stowe, is in town for few
days.
Rev. Mr.. Thurston filled his appoint
ment in course of lectures at Glover on
Wednesday evening of last week.
The post-office henceforth known as
Moscow" opened on Monday of this
week with J. w. Smith as Postmaster.
The mail is to be made up at Stowe and
Waterbury and carried from the main
road to the pOst-office, distance of half
a mile, by messenger boy,
Daniel Miles, clerk of Niles & McMa-
hon, has assumed bumner's garb and
will sample wall paper fol the present.
A store will soon be obened at Mos
COW by Allen Smith, or sbme one else,
wherein will'be located tnrs posl-o1nce
and jewelry shop of that dhrgh.
The civil authority of tt town met on
Saturday and abated $27s2 of the taxes
of the town.
No exchange occurred at the NJ. E.
church on Sunday last, but in the alb
sence of Mr.. Thurston, one of Sprague's
discourses was very ably read by Miss
Emma Poland.
Among those injured at numbering are
AmaSa Wells and Almon Harlow,
both being caught by rolling logs, but
are now able to be around.
The town system of schools will be
voted upon at the coming March meeting
with limited knowledge Of its merits,
or dement's, unless the subject is more
thoroughly discussed than it now ap-
pears that it will be.
Mrs. Lydia Lunt, of Newburyport,
Mass, is in town to attend the funeral of
her mother, Mrs. Guy Nutting.
The Green Mountain Seminary dramat
ic club, of Waterbury Center, assisted
by Profs. Marsh. of Name, and Bacon of
Massachusetts, will entertain the people
of Stowe at the Town Hall on Saturday
evening next. with 1.-The Danger Signal"
and farce, My Turn Next"
The Ladies Aid Society of Unity
church will meet on Thursday afternoon
of this week, with Mrs. Ned Webster. ]
A basket picnic.
The Ladies Aid Society held musical
social at Miss Annie Wilkins on Thurs
day evening, Jan. 20. All who attended
report very entertaining and enjoyable
evening, and hope they may soon have
the pleasure of attending another musi-
cal. Sixty persons were present.
Remember the ctllector for the NEWS
& CITIZEN will be at this place Friday
from 10 to y. See him.