News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12
JOHN SON.

: Mrs. ). Ill. Waters is visiting friends il
: Lyndon.
p. D. Morgan was in town last weel
for a few days.
>. w. COnant, of Hardwick, is visiting
. at III. A. Fletcher's.
Measles has made its appearance il
town, a few eases being reported.
Mrs. f. w. Bedding aud daughter, Lu
cha. of Poultney, are visiting here.
f. NJ. Gray has taken rooms at Miss
| Lucinda Dodge's. moving Monday.
Misses Laura and Susie Cowles are
home from their summer vacations.
} The Misses Bell. of Walden, last week
visited their cousin. Mrs. Mary Perry.
! High wages have induced number to
go to Franklin county duriag the haying
season.
Fred Jones is assisting his brother
Frank in his sash and door factory at
Lowell.
The sawdust case, which occupied near
ly all last week. stands adjourned until
July %.
Rev. Mr.. Smith attended the funeral of
Lewis G. Rogers on Saturday at his late
residence.
James Kneeland has on exhibition
some alfalfa clover, grown from seed
raised in Colorado.
Mrs. George Manuel, of North Troy,
was in town last week visiting at her ia
Tiers, II. B. Miller's.
Fred Dillingham; is home on vacation.
having finished his first course of lectures
at the medical college in Burlington.
The funeral of Mrs. Albin Demeritt
was held at her late home on Saturday
afternoon, Rev. A. A. Smith officiating.
Mrs. Moses Smith, who has been out
of health for some time. has gone to live
with her daughter, Mrs. Wilder Magoon.
Rev. Edwin Wheelock, of Cambridge,
in exchange with Rev. A. A. Smith,
| preached at the Congregational church
! Sunday morning.
| Stuart Baker, in the employ of station
agent Sherwin, was thrown under the
cars as they were passing last week We'd
nesday, and had one leg crushed below
the knee and the other ankle and foot
was crushed to jelly. Amputation
being necessary, Drs. Allen and Wood
ward were Immediately summoned. The
Injured man was moved to his home, and
both legs taken off. The operation,
however, proved too much, and the
young man died at ll.45.
The quarterly conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church of johnson. ap-
pointed IA committee to frame resolutions |
and have them read i'll the public service. |
printed in the local paper, and Il copy |
presented to the family. i'll memorial OF |
Brother Frank Cakes, who died the 18th |
day OF June. The following is accord
inglv submltted:-
WHEREAs-In the death of Bro. Frank Cakes
the chuI oh, community and family have sus-
tanned what seems an irreparabe loss.
ReSO 'Ced,-That one has gone from our midst
in whom our trust was rightly conllded, that in
our board OF stewards and quarterly conference,
is missed a Judgement that rarely failed; that
the Sunday school regards the vacant place with
sorrow and appreciate sad loss; that we extend
our sympathy to the bereaved family and |
friends, praying that common good may result |
WIN. CUNNINGHAM.
G. f. MONTEITH.
j. w. SPENCER.
Prin. A. III. Campbell, of our Normal
school. has gone to San Francisco, Cal,
to attend the National Teachers Associ-
alton. lie vert in company with enough
other of the New England teachers t.
give them Il special Pullman train to the
Pacific and back again. Starting from
Boston, July 9th they expected to spend
one day at Niagara Falls. two days at
Denver. Col, one day at Salt Lake City :
and reach San Francisco Saturday even
ing, July II. Their returning route will
be by the way of the Northern Pacific,
stopping Il few days at Yellowstone Park,
and at other points of interest. reaching
home the 9Th of August. The evening {
before he LETT his home a good number of |
his neighbors and friends called in an ia
formal way to bid him farewell and God ]
speed on his journey. After half hour {
spent in 4 quiet social manner. the visit
Ors assembled into and as near the Sit 7
ting room as possible, when Mr. l.. NJ.
FullingCon, with choice and well chosen {
IL, FOL
)ny gold-headed cane, wishing that he
night receive it as a slight token from
lis friends as mark of their high es-
eem of him, and appreciation of his r
work among us. Following the re-
marks of Mr.. Fulliagton y
The evangelist, S,m Small, said that Boston | "
lad more culture to the square inch than any r
'ther town in the Western Hemisphere so you | l
lave, at this hour, IN your own home, more \
own; perhaps IN the State. when you came .
lmong us five years ago you did not make i'm
posing promises; you did not paint the town t
With posters telling us in .rs two feet long of
coming success. But tonight we have met to .
ell you that you have achieved the arduous ex-
.elence of deeds nell DONE We have come here L
% show our appreciation of the value of the I
services rendered the Normal school; of your
lnselish devotion to the best interests OF the i.
We have met here that the ties o f I
friendship which bind this family to our families I
night be multiplied and strengthened. We claim \
hat this mutual friendship has yielded subStan-
ial fruit in great variety, but we have come to-
yether tonight that we might enjoy the fragrance
md admire the hues of flowers which bloom mid v
social joys. For did not oliver WendaH Holmes J
AS DER the glacier frozen sheet
Breathes soft the Alpine rose,
So in life's desert, blooming sweet,
The flower of friendship grows.
We have met to wish that you will return in
safety and that then your shadow and your sub c
stance, material and mental, together with the
number of your friends, shall not be less We '
wish to assure you that we are not unmndful of 4
he tact that, not neglecting your classes, yOu 7
nave yourself been tireless student, and we :
congratulate you on your recent reward, the de- l
gree conferred by the faculty of Burlington Col /
ege. We present you this cane and ask that q
irst, you moisten its tip day after tomorrow in
he waters of Massachusetts Bay, and five days q
alter repeat the suggestive ceremony in the clear
t aid you in pointing out to less obServant minds
objects of interest IN nature, in art In engineer
suburbs of Denver may it rest awhile among the Z
Wild flowers of the plain, and minute later +
NOW. May it aid you in scaling Mount Shasta, I
md as you follow the winding path in Yosemite '
Valley, may it sometimes keep your feet from n
alling, and again fill your eyes with tears as it /
suggests the faces and forms of those whose !
;reat hearts watch you tar away, of this home,
IS memories and its inmates, of yOnder almost Q
breathing canvass, [pOintng to portrait of the +
ate Mrs. Campbelll of the scores of friends in !
he homes of graduates and in the houses of u
rends where prayers are daily either thought g
II told for your safe RETURN future success and H
inal peace. n
A CARD OF THANKS.-We wish through your (
,aper to thank VIM. Cunningham, Amos Warner
:. c. Drown and others, who so thOughtfuiy e
AIRED for our crops and watched blythe Sick-bed a
ill returning health promises to again bless the q
lead of our afflicted home.
MIR. AND Mrs. j. S. BICKNELL. L
JEFFERSONVILL
J. b. Page is in poor health. !
Miss Flemming is visiting at l.. J. See