News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-11-12
FLETCHER.

This town has purchased loau ma
chine at cost of 500.
B.P. Wetherbee is proud of his new
boy-an eleven FOUNDER!
Mrs. V. d. Kinsley has recently vlsiC-
ed her daughter in Hyde Park.
S. j. Scott recently went to, WesGnlore
to look at some land, with view OF pur-
chasing.
Oscar Chase, recently married TO laa
Smith. goes to housekeeping on the
Ellsworth farm this week.
Miss Mae Lord returned home Mon
day, having been absent with her DroCh-
er in st. Albans for two weeks.
Mrs. V. E. Chase has so far recovered
from her illness as to be about, though
she can go only upon crutches as yet.
Robert Slater. the aged father of Mrs.
Cephas Carpenter, is at MIR. Carpenter 5,
quite sick from a gangrenous sore on his
foot.
There is to be chicken-pie and honey
party in the vestry of the Union hurch
at the Center, on Friday evening, Nov.
20. All are invited.
Henry Porter left the Ellsworth farm
last week, having been there year, and
has gone into a house on the farm of
The schools are now all supplied with
teachers for the winter. The school in
BlnghamviIle is to begin next Monday,
with Miss Minnie Northway as teacher.
p. Wells raised 500 bushels of oats
from eight acres of ground, being an av-
erage of "a IL bushels to the acre. G..
w. Lees crop averaged 60 bushels to the
acre.
Miss frankie McAllister. of Cabot,
closes her school in district No. IL next
Friday. She is to teach the winter term
No. 9, which begins the day after Thanks
giving.
The Post-office was moved last Satur-
day afternoon from the store of j. q j.
NJ. Robinson, where it has been located
for dozen years or more, to the store OF
l.. A. Blaisdell.
L. B. Elliot went to Enosburg last
week to meet his wife and visit her broth
er and family. Mrs. Elliot has been
away for two weeks, visiting friends i'll
Orleans county.
The printer made us say r. w. Bing-
ham, instead of Bailey, in speaking of
the eX-Postmaster last week. MIR. Bal
ley had held the office 20 years, instead
of "a, having been appointed in 1865.
The remains of Mrs. Lois Squires Rey-
nolds, who died at her sons j. G. Rey-
nold's, In North Cambridge, last Tues
day, were brought to the cemetery at
Binghamville last Thursday for burial.
j. r. Armstrong has gone to Massa-
chusetts to spend the winter with his
brothers. two of whom, n. NJ. and George,
live in Springfield. and the other, Chas.,
in Bondville. Each of them are in the
mercantile business, and doing we'll.
L. B. Elliot harvested fine looking
lot of turnips this fall, of the sweet Ger
man variety. Some of them are as
smooth as if turned in lathe. One of
them weighed IA IA pounds. He used a
spoonful of phosphate to each turnip, the
ground not being otherwise enriched.
The soil WIS sandy.
E. o. Hunt and his daughter, Mrs.
Elmer Lamb, attended the 10th anniver-
sary of his uncle Ambrose Chase's we'd
ding in Waterville last Thursday even
ing, and on Sunday his son Noble came
to summon them and other relatives to
his funeral, saying his father had died
Oh Saturday evening from a paralytic
,I.osIe- nTrCI,4aa4s vas born
where he lived through the early years |
If his married life.
A. Riggs raised 80 bushels of fine |
orange carrots on eight square rods OF
ground. being an average of $40 bushels |
to the acre. They are large and hand
some, many of them measuring over 20
one being rs inches in length and |
II inches in circumference. Some years
ago he raised a white spine cucumber
that weighed twelve pounds and FIVE
ounces. Just think, we housekeepers,
what fine lot of sweet pickle that would
make.
Leroy j., second son of Ebert and
Jennie Wetherbee, died Friday noon in
manner. Three days before he
was taken with bleeding at the nose,
which DR.. Downing succeeded in stop
ping, when it poured through his gums. |
No cause for the hemorrhage is known.
The parents have the sympathy of their
friends in their sudden and keen affliction.
The funeral was held at the house Sun
day afternoon, Rev. E. Folsom officiat-
ing.