News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-10-14
RELIGIOUS SERVICES

Chapter, L. 4. NJ, at this place Fri
day, at l o'clock p. m. Work is ex.
pected.
Remember the chicken-pie and har-
vest festival at the vestry Friday eve
ming next, the 10Th, from . to s
o'clock.
Prof. Allen, the balloonist, made {
successful ascension, accompanied by
two ladies, at Brockton, Mass, last
Friday.
H. B. Warden, who has been al
the Fabyan House in the White
Mountains during the season, is a
home again.
Owing to an accident to the mai
train east Friday, the mail west was
delayed until about 5 o'clock Satur-
day morning.
The town tax must be paid on OIL
before Friday next to save the dis
count. 1t will be saving Of about
twelve per cent.
Needed improvements are being
made about the foundry by the new
managers. and the business will
doubtless be enlarged.
The well known Whitmore & Clark
MINISTRIES are to be here about the
10Th, and as in the past, will no doubt
draw crowded house.
George Gilmore, with his wife, start
ed for Boston Monday, where he is to
stay couple of weeks, and will take
lessons in music ami dancing.
The former residence of P. X.
Gleed has been divided in two, and
the parts are being moved to founda-
tons ready for them on the south side
Of Union street.
Former members of the Morrisville
cornet band held an oyster supper at
the Morrisville House last Wednesday
evening, at the close of their two
days "blow" at the reunion.
Hiram Kelsey's residence and the
Town Hall are among the newly paint
ed buildings. The balcony on the
front of the Town Hall has been re-
moved, as it was found in an unsafe
condition.
The first lyceum of the fall term
was held by the Academy students
Friday evening, when the term was
half out. The merits and dement's
of horse racing in connection with ag-
ricultural fairs was warmly discussed.
The Academy students, having in
view the furnishing of music for their
own entertainments, have formed an
orchestra of six pieces, composed
as follows: Cheney, B fiat cornet !;
Goozey, 1st violin Miner, I'd violin !;
trombone; George, pic.
colo; and Paul, violoncello.
/ should be pleased to meet all the
singers of Morrisville and vicinity at
the vestry of the Congregational
church on Monday evening, Oct. Is, at
z p. m. The object is to form an as
ISOLATION to hold weekly rehearsals
during the fall and winter. Let all
be present with the ''Cho-
raj Worship" w. F. WHIPPLE.
Newspaper subscribers who are in
arrears should bear in mind that a
dun is not an impeachment of their
but simply an outpouring of
the publishers necessity. For in
stance, a thousand men owe them
81. 80 or more each. 1t is a small
amount to each individual, but to them
the aggregate is large. Instead of
becoming indignant because the pub
fishers ask for their honest dues, the
delinquent subscriber should be CRATE
full to them for waiting so patiently,
and pay up like a man.
SOLDIERS REUNION.
The Lamoille Veterans Associa-
ton, q military organization formed
here last June, held their first annual
reunion on the fair ground Tuesday
and Wednesday of last week, proving
a success, beyond the expectations of
all, and would have been still more so
in point Of attendance, had it been
more thoroughly advertised. Tues
day, the first day, opened fayorably,
with fine weather and a good number
arriving at an early hour. The day
was pleasantly spent in renewing old
acquaintance and in social intercourse
between old comrades. The enroll
ing of names of veterans attending,
under the head of the regiment in
which they served, was also done on
Tuesday, and Camp Foster" was
successfully inaugurated, with NJ. j.
Leach, of Wolcott, President of tue
association, and Capt. Frank Kenfield
of Morrisyille, officer of the day
Company and regimental drills were
participated in by large number Of
veterans, and at o'clock an excel
lent dress parade was carried out
The twelve pound gun owned by Pos
Warner, Of this place, was kept il
operation at frequent intervals during
the day, and the echoes from "BlacE
Betsy" were heard up and down the
valley. The Morrisville cornet band
the members of which were together
for the first time in several months
was present and furnished good mu
sic. A drum corps was also upon thu
ground, adding much to the spirit o
the day. Foster Post, of Wolcott
had headquarters in handsomel,
decorated tent. The wooden struc
lures on the ground were used for tn
accommodation of veterans who re
NAMED upon the ground over night
of which there were a large number
and the old time campfire scenes wer
gone through with. The campin
places On the following morning Woul