News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-15
JOHN s ON .

The college boys are home on vaca-
ition.
Daniel Fletcher broke an ankle bone
| last week.
T. J. Boynton came home on Tuesday
evening.
James Kneeland started for Denver.
Col, on Tuesday.
The Lecture association will meet on
Saturday evening at B. A. Hunts office.
L. B. Landon has purchased the H. A.
! Waterman house. now occupied by Rev,
Thomas CrudgintOn.
| The Normal students are to have a va
cation from Friday until Tuesday next,
and the model school of all next week.
| The village school opens next Monday
with Miss Leper in charge of the higher
! department, and Miss Waterman of the
| lower.
The sugar house of Albert Demerritt
and about six hundred lbs. of sugar be-
longing to A. A. Hawley, was burned
last Monday morning.
Henry Mudgett has moved on to the
Darius Clark farm, and George Kelley,
who formerly occupied that place, has
purchased and taken possession of the
Daniel Smith farm.
Notwithstanding the bad condition OF
the roads, a full house greeted Mrs. Liv-
ermore Friday evening. The lecture
which had been anticipated so long was
! listened to intently, and fulfilled even the
| highest expectations.
The next regular meeting of Mt. Olive
Chapter. No. 81, o. E. s.. will be on
Tuesday evening, the Goth at 7.30 sharp.
A full attendance is desired.
The Ladies' Ways and Means Society
will have an evening with Irving, con-
sisting of readings, representations. ETC.,
together with a supper served in Dutch
manner by ladies and gentlemen in cos
tune. at the Congregational vestry on
Friday afternoon and evening. Admit
lance, including supper, Is cents; chill
dren 10 cents.
A representative of this paper had
the pleasure OF attending Mrs. Liver
more's lecture at Normal Hall last Fri
| day evening. The speaker was greeted
with full house, made up almost en-
tirely of johnson people. Had the trav-
cling been better doubtless many from
surrounding towns would have been
present. Her subject was 1.-The Boy of
To-Day" She began with review of
the early history of our country, dwell
ing principally upon its rapid growth,
increase in population, and wonderful
developments, coming down to the pres
ent time, when she introduced her boy
OF to-day. Surrounded with every adj
vantage she depicted him as full of mis-
chief as well as ambition. She graphic
ally described the boy who is boss in
the family''-making the entire family
bow to his lordship's whims and notions.
She paid high compliment to the good
qualities of the boy-that while he was
at times like ''bull in a china shop" he
was full of good deeds and love, and had
a wonderful faculty for dispensing
''taffy' when in the right mood. The
monOpOlist or subsidized railroad king
was not a model for the boy of to-day.
She was very pronounced against mag
mates of this sort, and expressed herself
as pleased that labor had at last risen
up against that class of mOnOpOlistS who
were continually grinding the poor. She
touched ON temperance and dwelt at
length upon the use of tobacco, showing
the evil results from the narcotic weed.
The lecture was veryintereStlngt through
out, Astounding in thought and happy
suggestions. Mrs. LivermOre retains all
of her former YigOr and holds her place
among the first female orators of the
day. Her lecture was fitting close to
a successful course. The people of
Johnson have shown great enterprise in
giving to the public such a series of en-
tertainments. They are healthful to a
community and can but be productive
! of good. We congratulate the managers
on the results, both financially and
otherwise,