News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-10-07
FLETCHER.

The little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Gilbert Wethcrbee is sick with dysentery.
Rev. Geo. S. Guernsey will preach in
Fletcher next Sunday, forenoon and after
noon.
Don Chapman has built cottage at
Queen City Park this summer, and is now
painting it.
A sister of Freeman Ellis, Mrs. Emily
Hurlburt, of Missouri, is here on visit
to her brother.
Enough snow fell on the 1st day of
October to perceptibly whiten the hills
for a few hours.
Mrs. c. w. Marks has gone to Swan
ton Falls to visit friends. from whence
she intends to go on to Massachusetts,.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Story (Jennie
Bingham) of Morristown, with their chill
dren, recently visited her numerous rela-
tives here.
Our new doctor is from Derby, and
with his wife and child is boarding at n.
B. Blair's, but will go to housekeeping
as soon as possible.
Miss Cora Church started on her trip to
the West last week. She intends to visit
relatives in Iowa, Indiana and Minneso-
ia before she returns.
Bessie Davis is living with her sister in
Westford and attending school in the
Pine Brush district, Fairfax, where her
sister Lille is teaching.
In the obituary of Mrs. Briggs it
should have read that she was less than
seven, instead of five, when she was left
motherless; that her sister died in De-
cember, II, instead of February, ~, and
the little son Willie was 16 months old,
instead of 10.
While in Burlington recently an APP
parent stranger approached and bowed
to us with smile of recognition. We
were surprised to find he was former
Fletcher boy, and pleased to learn of his
present prosperity. G. w. Wells served
in the war of the rebellion, and soon at
ter his discharge, left his native town,
and for Il while worked fer others, but
for some years has been doing good
business for himself as hackman, and his
gentlemanly kindness will be gratefully
remembered by your correspondent.
Among the summer guests at the hotel
in Cambridge during the season of 1856
has been John p. Hunt, Jr., from New
York. Mr.. Hunt was born in Fairfax,
but so near to Fletcher as to have neigh
bors and many early acquaintance in
this town. His oldest sister married q
Fletcher man. Joseph Robinson, so a
good many of your readers may be i'll
terested in the following, taken from the
InUeStor, a weekly paper published in
| New York city, relating to financial af-
| fairs. 1t says: Among those who de-
serve to be cassed with those who have
prosecuted the legal profession success
| fully, is Mr.. John p. Hunt, Jr., who has
long had distinguished place among the
ablest and most successful of local prac-
titiOners. Mr.. Hunt studied law in the
office of Noggle, Williams and Achilles,
Judge David Noggle and Hon. Chas. Il.
| Williams being members of the firm. lie
was admitted to the Rock county bar in
1861, and has pursued his practice ever
since. During the years of 80, go and
81, he was resident of GAINESVILLE. this
State. Thoroughly verSed in the science
| of law, and of great resource, he enters
upon a case fully equipped for success,
and the fault is not his if the case does
not result in favorable termination to
| his client. Ever since his admission to
| the bar, this gentleman has had Il singu-
| larry successful career, and his talents
long ago secured for him practice eX-
tensive in character and lucrative III re-
suits. Unlike Il number of lawyers, Mr..
Hunt prefers to rely upon the merits of
his case for success, rather than upon
mere technicalties and legal bubbles,
aud by honestly striving to bring about
a compromise before entering upon liti-
CATION, he has gained the entire conf
dence of his clients, and the respect and
esteem of both bench and bar" He has
a niece at Pleasant Valley, Mrs. Melvin,
and other relatives in this town and Fair
fax, to whom he has made brief visits
during his stay in Cambridge. He re-
turned to the city last week.