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

Rev. Mr.. Ball is in town, with Mrs.
Ball and family, at her fathers, Dea.
Savage's.
The death of William Morrill,. aged SO
years, after long sickness, occurred on
Sunday morning, the funeral services oc
curing on Tuesday.
Bert Gates, of Minneapolis, Mimi, is
in town.
Miss Mary Butts, of Fort Dodge, Iowa,
is at home or visit.
Mrs. Col. Perkins, lass of II years,
celebrated her birthday on Sunday by a
swing in the hammock, much to the mer-
riment Of herself and friends present.
This sudden return of youth is some
thing quite customary among the earnest
and hardy fathers and mothers of early
days, and to see one at the age of so TAX
ing the double shuttle like a youth of 20
has been among the scenes witnessed at
times not far distant.
The promising young colt of Benjamin
Chapman was found dead in the pasture
a few DAYS since with its brains stove
out. Query; who or what did it?
A slight frost Friday morning; vines
and corn somewhat INJURED.
The road machine is again in use, max
ing new and brushing up the old turn
pixies. 1t works satisfactorily thus far.
though it fails to remove the numerous
cobbles from the road.
Mrs. I. F. Whitney, who leaves for her
home in Lowell, Mass. in few days,
subscribed for the NEWS AND CITIZEN.
This practice is followed by nearly all
who remove from the town, because Of
their appreciation of matters pertaining
to their old home and the many friends
left behind,
An agent has been in town for few
days soliciting subscriptions for the his
tory of the Vermont troops in the late
war. So long as the expense of its pub
LEGATION is betrayed by the State, would it
have been any more than just to have
presented a copy of the history to each
honorably discharged soldier in Yer
mont?
The Appalachian Mountain Club, of
Boston. numbering so, have an excursion
billed for Mt. Mansfield and its environs
during the three early days of this week,
arriving on Monday evenings train. This
makes another oasis in our summer quiz
etude.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. l.. Mcmahon are in
Saratoga for few days.
The village schools opened Monday,
undr the charge of Mr.. Bixby and Miss
Nelson.
Our NJ. DIS. are Respondent, for the
public health is generally good. Neither
Spanish nor Canadian maladies prevail.
The people are blest with bountiful har-
vest, but all produce is exceedingly low.
and the average purse strings are drawn
tighter than usual. Butter has brought
but little and that little has gone to pay
&c do n
necessity. The food and fuel should be
we'll husbanded for the winter. the stock
reduced to meet the provisions in store
and all things made ready for the neces-
stiles of stringent winter
At the funeral services of Dwight,
aged three years. the only son of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Sargent, on Tuesday of
last week, Rev. Mr.. Healey preached a
very affecting discourse. The parents
have the sympathy of the people in the
loss of their beautiful little child.
| Samuel Kaiser, while shoeing horse
| last week, had the misfortune to have a
toe severed from his foot, occasioned by
| the horse stepping thereon with a newly
| sharpened calk. He limps around on all
| tours. as did our fathers in early times.
Miss Ellen Whiting, of Saratoga, is at
home for few weeks.
Mrs. Henry Kaiser, on Wednesday last,
it being the fulfillment of 70 years of use
full and Industrious life, received pleas
ant recognition from her children and
grand children by a union festival at the
old homestead. Both the day and the
OCCASION were pleasant, and profuse with
love and the kindly remembrances of an
aged and atfectionate mothers life.
ic nl OF ha 1xr
| House.
| Extracts from early vermont Regis
ters," years 1928, furnished by Mr.. Az
70 Durkee. of Cady's Falls, and and re-
Gently appearing in the CITIZEN, have
induced Mr.. j. G. Raymond to exhume
from old files copy for the year 1918,
which was the first one published by
| Walton, though we believe the Vermont
Register was published by others previ-
Gus to that time. copies of which may
hereafter be referred to unless AFRO"
will concede his defeat. By Mr.. Ray
monds kindness we gather from this
record of by gone times some matters
which may be of interest to the older
portion of our people. At that time Jo-
mas Galusha was Governor and Paul
Brigham Lieut-Governor of Vermont.
Stowe was then in Washington county
and represented in the Legislature by
Nathan Robinson. Franklin county en-
braced Belvidere and Sterling, with no
representation also Cambridge, which
was represented by John Wires, and
johnson by Daniel Dodge. Orleans
county embracen Eden, Gilmore and VOL
colt, all without representation also
Hyde Park. represented by Joshua Saw
yer, and Morristown by Samuel Cook.
The names of Kelleyvale and Navy also
appear as towns in that county, of which
Samuel Cook, of Morristown, was one
of the assistant judges and Joshua Saw
yer, of Hyde Park, State Attorney,