News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-12-17
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Buck Brothers have large force OF
choppers at work on the Bashaw lot.
Work has been resumed at the Waters
butter worker shop, with L. j. Smith as
foreman.
At the last meeting of the Serenade
Band it was voted to obtain the service
of Mr.. Herrick, leader of the st. Johns
bury band, for short course of instruc-
! ton.
The regular meeting of Mt. Olive Chap
ter No. 81. o. E. S., will be held on
Tuesday evening, Dec. %. A full at
! tendance of officers and members is de-
| sired, for work and business of impor-
J lance.
| The willing Workers" will give an
apron and holder sale at the Baptist YES
try next Friday. Refreshments will be
served at o'clock, also throughout the
evening. 1t is hoped that the attendance
will be large. as the object is to obtain
funds for missionary purposes, as well
as providing pleasant evening socially.
Quite a serious runaway occurred on
Tuesday evening of last week. A. j..
Blake's team, which was left standing
near Simeon Hunts. became frighted
by train and ran through the bridge up
Railroad street, cOlliding with the team
of Thomas Wilson, injuring one OF his
horses severely, and afterwards Overtak-
ing team driven by Mr.. Ober, of No.
Hyde Park, striking it with such force as
to throw the occupant out, and frightened
the horse so it ran nearly to Bucks mill
before it stopped. The runaway horses
finally came to a stop in the Knight &
Nye sheds.
AT this sad season of the year the To-
lie. If toto Of toll fhnIf
readers the exact age and avOirdupOlS of
ambitious porcines, and the names of
their fortunate owners; closing their
statements with the inevitable ''WhO
beats ?'' Is not this intellectual pabu
lum trifie monotonous May we ini-
tiate, if not inaugurate, a change by
bOasting of our boys and girls Tween
ty-tive years ago Henry Ward Beecher-
his star in its Zenith-said to large
audience in his own ward, that Brook
Ign was nearer New York than New
son for the last past twenty-five years,
have claimed that the district down the
river, commonly known as the Hadley
neighbOrhOOd, or the Fullington dis
trict, was and is still more part of
johnson than johnson is part of her
self, and in no sense, except an arbitrary
geographical one, a part of Cambridge.
A decade and half ago, s. IL. Pearl, OF
blessed and fragrant memories, recruit
ed one of his large classes somewhat
from the ''braw lads and bonnie laSSes"
from down the river" That was yeSter-
day. To-day let us see what that class
has done and are doing to keep bank full
the parallel streams Oh finance and edu-
cation. each so dependent upon and i'm
portant to each other. Mary l.. Pulling
ton taught for several successive terms
in her Alma Mater, afterwards in graded
schools in Stowe, Jericho and Wood
stock, and is now of the faculty of Sioux
Falls University, Dakota. Her sister,
Eugenia NJ, for twelve years in the State
Primary School at Palmer, Mass, nine
years as teacher and three as principal,
with salary now of 500 per year. Helen
Morse, now popular teacher IN large
school in the city of Evansville, Ind
Arson Morse and Harmon Morse, Jr.,
left our Academy for Amherst College;
graduated with hOnOrs, After spending
two years in study and travel in Europe
they came home, one to a profeSsOrshlp
in his Alma Mater, and the other to
like position in Baltimore College, at
Baltimore, Md; each with salary OF
$500 per year. Mr.. William Nye, of the
firm of Knight q Nye, is well known,
both in and beyond the limits of this
OOuuIN, DIS Il SSn6IOuS, 1dIl ISdlIllS etIu
successful merchant. Ferris and Au-
gustns Fullington were merchants in
Irasburgh for about ten years, and very
successful, both in property and reputa-
ton. Soon after Augustus death, in
1888, Ferris moved to Clay Centre, Kan
sas, where he is now leading broker.
Our jovial townsman, Birney 5. Pulling
ton, for years travelling salesman for
Stafford, Humphrey Il Co., of Burllng-
ton, and withal progressive and pains
taking farmer, and public-spirited citi-
zen, is too we'll known and esteemed in
Northern Vermont to need further men
ire, Kansas, is a leading merchant and
dealer in real estate. A few days ago,
by a handsome majority, in three-cor
nered contest, an independent ticket
having been started, he was elected
County Treasurer, with salary of $4,000
per year. The district down the river
is mile long, and contains seven fam
lilies. Its schoOl-house is 1Sx24. Who
beats