News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-01-26
HYDE PARK.


bling rate offer, YOU had better =" flax
around :" as the time for the grand COM
bination is fast drawing to close.
Varnum Boyd lately called our atten-
ton to grade Holstein calf at the FISK
farm which at the age of one day. tipped
the beam at Ill lbs. 1t appeared 60 us
moro like q yearliHg than a-calf-7sss-
E. B. Weed of Westford has the con-
tract for saving the lumber taken from
the Campbell lot. He is to put in 80
horse power engine in the Smalley mill
which has been rented to L. ii. Porter
| by the year.
F. R. Child has closed out his mercan-
| tile business and vacated the corner
store. He has opened an office in the
front part of his house. Rumor has 1t
that the store will soon be reopened by
another party.
The past week has been one of the
Severest of the season; intense cold &C
cOmpanied by high winds and heavy
snow falls, and each storm grows more
violent and we can only wonder what
the next will be.
Deputy County Clerk Hulburd's step
| has been very elastic to-day and his smile
child like and bland" We now under
stand why he has been so much con-
cerned about the price of soothing syrup
| ana peppermint eSS6uCS. MULTI anu
daughter are doing we'll.
The ice harvest has commenced. The
| ice is the best for years-being clear and
blue and sixteen inches thick. Year by
year the number of our people who store
| ice for summer use increases. 1t costs
but little to gather it, and IL certainly is
a great luxury during the torrld season.
Rev. Charles Parkhurst, Methodist,
| e., IL Of thic rNlann of nrpCnnt n9CtnT.
of the st. Johns church at Dover, n. H.,
received a surprise call from some of his
pariShiOnerS the other evening, and he
and Mrs. ParkhurSt were presented with
la handsome silver service. 1t was the
10th anniversary of their marriage, and
la pleasant evening was spent by pastor
and people.
The Lowell correspondent of the New
port Express writes as follows: 4" A
tramp who belongs, as we hear, IN Hyde
Park, called at house here three years
since, frightening two young ladies who
fled out of the back door and through
the fields and snow to neighbours
The same tramp was here again this
week frightening and annoying the same
: family and others, compelling them tC
E warm. feed and lodge him, which was
very inconvenient. Some refused tC
lodge him and the gentleman who die
saws cannot do it again One who
had been annoyed by him before said, 8
2 cannot keep him; he is as good a maj
! now as he ever will be. He might az
/ well freeze to death tonight Who cal
s blame him Why don't the town anthor
a tiles where he belongs take care of him 2
D Lanpher, who can this be
PICKED UP.-Sxty-ive, couples &C
tended the musicians ball at the Ameri
can last Friday night. The infan
child of NJ. B. Eaton is very sick will
lung fever. =. Bert Rand has been a
CraftsburY the past few days. :. Don
forget your school tax. "A good chanc
tC buy a farm; see business notice. -.
Republican clubs are being organizes
what's the matter with one for thi
town ?. I'll. M. NOyes is ''up north
this week on insurance business. o.. On
or of the greatest causes of trouble in thi
world is the habit people have of talkin
\, faster than they think. :. County Cler
Waite is confined to the house with
q severe cold. viii DOty sends in lat
Denver paper in which is graphic az
count of the Sons of VermOnt's banque
IL held in that place the 18th, inst; bake
). beans and pumpkin pies were prominen
on the bill of fare. +. E. Sawyer la
the contract to take care of the churc
|. the coming year. The trio from til
= . Island'' neighborhood didn't make
very attractive appearance when in tn
village last Tuesday too much liquO
b aboard. =. On account of the illness {
r Rev. Mr.. Tucker, no Methodist service
were held Tuesday evening. The bes
medicine for hypochondria is hard worl
re This year there will be an unusu;
le occurrence-April FOOLS Day comes o
Easter Sunday. -. Squire Smalley
= under the weather" just now.
J. Many would doubtless go from tn
m place to the Hungarian concert at JOIN
son Saturday night if the late train coul
be sent down after them. .Florent
re Partlow, who has been away on week
p vacation, is again at her post in the dru
store. There have been number {
J. cases of diphtheria i'll and about Cente
Vile the past few weeks, but we belleN
e. all are improving. o.. Dame Rumor sa,
that marriage In which the parties Il
5 terested are residents of this place, WI
D. soon come off. @. . Rev. G. l.. Story W;
in town Wednesday. "A. Z. Brow
manager of the telephone line, was
J this place last week.