News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-07-02
JOHN ON.

Charles Leland and wife are visiting
their children in this town.
The recent rains enable o. & A. Fl.
Buck to drive their logs down the Gil
hon, and they are hard at it.
Levi Waterman and family are i'll town.
Mrs. Parmalee and her daughter, Miss
Sadie, are visiting friends in Franklin and
Chittenden counties.
c. B. Story is at home for stay of six
weeks or so. He is in the employ of the
Edison Electric Light Co.
A musical convention is in progress
here, under the tuition of the Leslie Chi
cago Convention Concert Troupe.
The band concert last Tuesday evening
was we'll attended.
A town meeting has been called for
July IL to fill the vacancy in town office,
caused by the resignation of L. ). Boyn-
ton, who expects to soon enter upon his
new duties as United States post-office
Inspector.
Our band goes to Cambridge next Sat
urday to assist in defeating skating
rink.
The ladies at the Baptist church will
hold their annual strawberry festival in
their vestry on Saturday next, July 4.
Loyal citizens can reckon on good time.
| The refreshments are to be ready at
o'clock, consisting of ice cream, cake.
strawberries, etc. All are invited.
The graduating exercises of the john
son Normal School began on Sunday,
June 81, with sermon before the grad
uating class by Rev. Mr.. BaXendale. On
Monday. the 22d. the examinations were
closed. and in the evening of that day the
B class gave an exhibition and public en-
tertainment, which was attended by a
large number of people, and is spoken OF
as having been an interesting and pleas
ant occasion. On Tuesday, the 23d, came
the graduating exercises, of which the
following is the programme: Prayer
music. Teaching exercises; Lesson on
Lines" Nancy o. Patten. Williston;
The Common Pump" Oscar A. McFar-
land, Johnson; Lesson on Plants" Eff
file S. Cowles. Troy. Music. ''Lesson
in Moulding" Ada L. Smith. Irasburgh !;
1.-The Pendulum" Charles G. jameson,
Stannard. Intermission-music. Glass
exercises: Address to teachers. Roxa l..
Gates, Montgomery, subject. ''Aids in
Gaining an Education" Address to I'M
der classes. Carrie J. Cowles, Troy, sub
ject, Room Higher Up" Glass tree
address, L. o. Thompson, Morrisville.
subject, Development" Music; Glass
1FOpnecy, ALICE McLdTell. COulISOu
Address to class. Myra L. Smith, Iras-
burgh, subject Mutual Healthfulness :"
Glass song, n. o. Patten; music; pre-
sentation of certificates; benediction. A
reunion of the Alumni Association was
held at p. M, at which reports from
many classes were given. The toast,
"Our College Boys" was responded to
by C. w. Baker," "Our Doctors by
DR.. Buchanan, and "Our Teachers" by
S. III. Waters. The meeting closed with
an address by Prot. Edward Conant.
At the alumni meeting of the Normal
| School, held last week Mrs. l.. M. Fuliing-
ton reported her class. From her inter-
esting paper we take the following =
Three of our class have Joined the great
majority Mrs. Dutton Thompson of
Irasburgh died three years ago. Meas
ured by the uncertain standard of years
her life was short, but by the sure test of
good deeds well done, it was not so, but
went beyond the psalmist's limit of vigor-
Gus strength, three score and ten. THAT
life is long which answers life's great
end.n - One of the most beauti-
full monuments in our new cemetery
marks the last resting place OF Mrs. Put
nam Scribner. Last fall her little daugh-
ter, ten years of age. ill this hall before a
large audience in which was her grand
father and grandmother Putnam, recited
a variety of difficult pieces with surprising
ease, rending the humorous and pathetic
parts with true artistic expression. 1t is
not blood alone that tells. Those of our
class who heard Belle Scrfbner that night,
aided by - the angle of backward look"
saw her mother 16 years before in this
building among her books, patient, eager,
thoughtful, heard her in the recitation
rooms attentive and scholarly. We re-
called times when in this hall and on this
stage, standing where her daughter then
, stood: she did herself and US credit. So
when her little daughters wonderful per-
Torrance was finished, the words of scrip
= ture come to my mind, No one liveth to
: himself, nor no one dieth to himself"