News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-01
HYDE PARK,
Happy New Year!


Turn over new leaf.
Now it should be written 1885.
Nothing slow about this weather.
The old year went out beautifully.
Miss Jennie Deming of Putney, is
in town.
Frank Wheelock of Boston is STOP
ping at the American
The Academy students will have a
vacation Thursday and Friday of this
week.
DIR. Stewart has hung out a new
sign, so that he who runs for the doc
tory may read.
A good time to adopt the ''pay as
you 60" plan. Try it for 1855, and
see if it doesn't pay.
The days are growing longer. 1t
takes very strong magnifying glass
to find it out though.
The school at the Centre is tempo
rarity closed, owing to the illness of
VIM. Warner, the teacher.
V. w. Jewett has sold his black
smith shop in this village to C. S.
Page. and will soon leave town.
The egg problem published last
week has been correctly solved by sew
eral. The old lady had sol eggs.
Communion services at the church
next Sunday morning. Preparatory
lecture Saturday afternoon at O'Clock.
The times may be hard, but never
theless both the post and express office
had their usual rush of Christmas bust
ness.
Carlos Eastman has removed his
family to the Lorenzo Jones farm, re-
Gently purchased by himself and James
Hadley.
Annual meeting of the pew-owners
of Union Church next Saturday after
noon at o'clock. A full attendance
is desired.
a Wedding at Scion Whitcombts
Christmas Day. The contracting par
ties were Scott Whitcher and Hattie
Whitcomb.
A jolly party of Johnson young peo-
pie took supper at the American last
Friday night. They were out on a
sleigh ride.
Christmas day was a genuinely
typical New Euglapd one-clear and
cold, with the thermometer several de-
grees below zero.
The Good Templars are arranging
an entertainment and sociable, to be
given at the Town Hall Friday even
ing, January 9th. Admission free.
Amos DAVIS has purchased of Mrs.
Sally Dwinell the house and four acres
of land on the creamery road. Price,
$500. 1t is said the mill privilege
goes with it.
The third annual meeting of the
Campbell reunion society will be held
with Mr.. and Mrs. Henry w. Calkins
on Saturday, Jan. 18th. A full at
tendance is desired, as officers will be
elected at that time.
PER ORDER Con-.
The Christmas exercises, under the
auspices of Union Sunday School,
passed off very pleasantly at the Town
Hall last Wednesday evening. The
attendance was large and the pro-
gramme very interesting. There were
large number of presents-almost
everybody being remembered.
Chauncey Green, one of the railway
mail agents on this road, concluded
his services in that capacity Tuesday.
He has been on the road over five
years and a most faithful and popular
official. Mr.. Green has many friends
all along the line who will wish hin
success in whatever business he ma,
engage.
The Troy Times has issued for gra
tuitous distribution neat little hand
reference book, full of useful informa
ton for everybody. By the way. tn
Troy Weekly Times is an excellen
iournal-just the thing for the farmer
We club it with the News & CTIzEN
giving the Times Is months and thi
/ paper one year, for S2.40 To ava
] yourself of this offer, it must be az
: cepted before Jan. 10Th.
About 10 o'clock Christmas morI
! ing our village was startled by the CT
: of fire. 1t proved to be in the Wilso
i. house, occupied by VIM. Barnard.
r appears that some bed clothes whiC
+, had been hanging by the stove we
/, put on bed in an adjoining room, ar
!, when discovered the entire beddir
!. was in flames, and it looked as thong
l. the house would take fire. Fortunat
:. ly the fire was speedily extinguishe
/. 1t is thought the clothes caught fire
|. spark got into them when by Il
stove. A heavy west wind was blo'
/, ing at the time and had not the fam
}. been subdued a terrible confagratit
:. must have followed.
Died, Of cancer, in Fairfield, De
it 18th, Louise, daughter of the late I
e ram Rich, of this town, and wife
is Fremont Bowen, of Eden. Her /
10 mains were brought to this town a
Y, inferred in the village cemetery |;
+, Sabbath afternoon. Connected W
a the last sickness and death Of nj
IN Bowen are circumstances so very
e, culiar as to call for more than pa
is ing notice. That q woman OF the
ch telligence and ability she possess
Fir should choose to languish and sui
e. in filth and in rags, without ever
be change of clothing to her pers'
n, while, securely packed in her safe
is at the side of her bed lies an amo