News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-19
JOHNSON.

A number from this place are attend
ing the Advent camp-meetlng at YER
gennes.
Mrs. Langdell and daughter are spend
ing a few weeks at MOrrisvllle.
Mrs. Sarah Heath gave her Sunday
school class picnic in DR.. woodward S
grove last Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. Joseph Bixby started on Wednes-
| day last for South Branch, Mimi, to VlslC
her daughter, Mrs. Alfred Whiting.
Miss Clara Riddle and Miss Hattie Nc
Farland visited school friends in Mont
gomery last week.
The teachers for the fall term of the
=, graded school are Misses Lepper and Wa
terman.
Riddle Brothers have improved the
looks of their store by kalsomine.
The party who visited Mansfield Sat-
urday report unpleasant weather.
Rev. L. S. Gates, returned mission
ary from India, preached at the COngre-
gational church Sunday morning.
Arthur Foster, of Reading, Mass, is
visiting for week at his uncle's Il. NJ.
Fullington's.
D. S. Scott, John Hayford and DIR.
George Woodward were elected as DEM
ocratic town committee at the county
convention.
The party from here who attended the
organ concert at Morrisville Friday eve
ming were highly pleased with the entire
programme.
Miss Jennie Floyd, of Chicago. is WIS.,
iting her grandmother, Mrs. IL. NJ. Par
malice.
Owing to the interest taken in camp
meeting this year, there will be TWO tents
from this town.
The serenade band will not accept the
invitation to attend and compete for the
prizes at the band tournament at Hard
wick next Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Mcfarland are
attending the Universalist grove meeting
at Burlington, and from there will visit
relatives in Rutland.
L. j. Boynton has purchased of Ed
ward Conant the house occupied by Prof.
A. II. Campbell.
Ellsworth Barton, employed by F. w.
Nash, of Bristol, was home for a few
days last week.
The Baker house and yard have been
greatly improved by removing the fence
and pruning the trees.
Frank Moulton has gone to house
keeping in the Kenfield house.
Arrangements were made Saturday for
crossing the arch bridge, and teams were
6usily employed the entire day drawing
freight which had accumulated at the
station during the week.
Mrs Mary Perry and daughter are Wis
iting relatives and friends in New Hamp
shire and Massachusetts,.
Arthur, son of Rev. Thomas Crudg-
linton, and bride, of Concord, N. H., are
at home for two weeks.
1t is expected that party from here
will join the cheap excursion to Sarato-
ga next Saturday.
In the absence of the pastor at camp
meeting, there will be no services at the
NJ. E. church on Sunday next.
The board of civil authority will meet
at the Town Clerks office on Saturday,
next to rectify any mistakes made in the
check list.
There was a large attendance at the
Baptist picnic held in Mr.. Beecher's
grove Friday afternoon, and the net re-
ceipts were $40.
Trustee G. Baker and wife, of Rutland,
are visiting their brother and sister at
Mr.. Bakers old home.
Our community was shocked on Friday
last to learn of the sudden death of Karl
Bradley by sun-stroke while bathing in
the river below Judge Pearls.
The funeral of Smith Hebb's little son
who was drowned on Sunday morning,
was held Monday at 10 O'Clock and the
remains taken to Cambridge.
James Loveland's horse was drowned
while fording the river with load of
lumber above the arch bridge on Tues
day morning.
Old residents recollect Rev. Moses Blk
by. once of this town, afterwards of
Burmah, as a missionary, and now of
Providence. r. l. His daughter Jennie,
now Mrs. johnson, who with her hus
band, have been missionaries in the In
dian Territory. and who expect soon to
sail to Burmah to labor in her fathers
old field. were in town recently visiting
relatives and friends.