News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-29

STOWE.

Butter ruled from &c TO ~ cents on
Saturday.
Capt. Eben Barrows has returned from
his visit in Sheldon.
The back roads have been nearly i'm
passible for few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Pike have returned
from their visit to Brooklyn, N. Y.
Miss Nellie Sargent has gone to the
Mary Fletcher Hospital in Burlington to
be treated.
The item concerning Mrs. Edson's
death and funeral was by mistake placed
with the Wolcott items.
Several of our people were in New
York during the late storm, and say that
they never saw its equal.
A Republican caucus is to be held at
the Town Hall on Saturday evening of
this week. All Republicans are request
ed to be present.
1t is said to be a fact recently discov-
ed that grass is making a fine start under
the snow, in some places being two or
three inches high.
Many having sugar orchards nave the
roads well broken for the gathering of
sap. and a few have tapped to a limited
extent. The flow of sap has not, as yet
yet, been very great.
The Methodist society remembered
Mrs. A. A. Royce. the organist, Thurs
day evening by presenting her a purse of
SIS. Her services are greatly appreci-
ated, and this recognition was but a
slight token of their regard.
DR.. Grout has returned from New
York, where he has been for the past
o weeks, filling his brain with useful
Information. His friends have been pa
tient at his absence, but will expect from
him the profits of an improved medical
culture.
The friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Jackson
Sargent met with them on Tuesday night
of last week. at least as many of them as
could we'll get there by reason of the |
bad roads, ana their congratulations
and a purse OF about $40 as a remem-
brance of an anniversary.
n copy of the Omaha Republican 8
March 16, for which we are indebted to
Mr.. George Raymond, contains a de-
Republican clubs held in that city. 1t
further says. 1.-The first choice of Nebras-
ka Republicans is James G. Blaine"
1t seems never to nave been more sick
ly here since the days of small poX. than
during the present month of March. yet
single handed has DR.. Church faithfully
fought disease and attended the wants of
his many suffering patients, riding night
and day, and with sleepless vigilance adj
ministering to the constant demands of
the suffering.
Mrs. Henry Jenney and little daughter
returned from New York on Sunday
morning. The little sufferer has been
there for treatment for a diseased ankle,
aud accompanied by DR.. Grout was taken
there about four weeks ago. An incis-
ion was made and several diseased bones
of ankle and foot removed. The wound
is now healing with a fair prospect of IL
recovery, though with an an
.ticipated stiffness of the ankle joint.
The following is taken from the New
Homestead as an Item from a
town and is applicable to near
ly every town in the State. How is it i'll
this town? 1t is only 20 years since the
first western grain was brought to this
town, and in 1887 no less than 175 Car
of corn, oats, bran and middlings
we're delivered and consumed here.
These car loads, averaging Is tons, at
1919, gave us a grand total of 2,625 tons.
which this little farming community
ire paying S65, 625. Is this a %judicious
expenditure?'