News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-09
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The series OF meetings will begin Feb.


The series OF meetings will begin Feb.
10Th.
The last public Iyceum of the village
school was held Tuesday night.
L. C. Moody has moved his Office to
the west wing of the brick hotel.
Josiah Stone is fortunate in an increase
of pension from IS to $l2 per month,
Cause, rheumatism.
March meeting occurs three weeks
from next Tuesday. therefore the warn
ing will soon be up.
Corn and candy will be popped and
pulled at the ten cent sociabIe in Unity
vestry next Friday evening.
Gospel meetings were held last week
and are to be continued this week by the
union of the evangelical churches.
Dea. r. A. Savage, unmindful of his
broken arm. is as brisk upon the streets
as though nothing had happened.
Mrs. jackson Sargent. now at the Ma
nv Fletcher Hospital Burlington. is so
far recovered as to be expected home this
week.
The subject for the meeting at Unity
church next Sunday evening is: What
benefit has the world derived from unbe-
lief and unbeieyers.
Alpine Luce is preparing his residence
for early occupation. He will have Il
neat aud commodinus residence in Il CELL
trail part of the village.
Mr.. Faunce is much of the time occu-
pied in rolling the public ways, and Mr..
Paquin in the mean time drives the stage
to and from Waterbury.
Mr.. Loren Kendall. lecturer and pro-
moter of the temperance cause, has been
IN town looking after the welfare of the
Lodge of Good Templars.
The delegates of H. II. Smith Post, G.
A. R.. to the encampment held at ST.
last week were Chandler
Watts, A. G. Raymond and S. X. Weeks.
The beautiful weather we are now hav-
ing in measure offsets the fearful
weather of the two weeks previous. The
snow is deep, eslt everybody seems ac
tive in business.
A box party will be held at the branch
church on Friday night of this week for
the benefit of the society. They always
have good entertainments there and this
occasion will not be an execution.
The State Superintendent of Educa-
ton has contemplated holding meeting
bad roads, pressure of business and other
causes, he thinks it best to defer it until
the fall.
Nellie Drugg, of the Hollow, has been
quite sick, the result of a cold recently
taken while attending a singing school at
the Town Hall. Her life has been de-
be little better.
on Tuesday next, with an exhibition by
the scholars of the different departments,
to be held at the Town Hall on that eve
tertainment by the children.
The pupils of Stowe high school to the
number or 80 gave Miss EIvira Smith, of
Moscow, a very pleasant surprise last
Friday evening. The youth, both lads
and lasses, went in a spirit of pleasure
and had Il happy welcome and royal
good tune.
Mrs. Hiram Town, of Moscow, adj
vanced in years, is very sick with pneu-
monia. Her misfortuues within the past
few years have been. great, being con-
fined to the bed for mouth with a broken
thigh. Age is so much against her as to
render her recovery uncertain.
All Republicans in town are requested
to attend the meeting at the Town Hall
on Friday night of this week at O'Clock.
to assist in organizing u Republican club,
pursuant to call from tile National Re-
publican League. Let the time be re-
membered aud forget not to be present.
A spirited runaway occurred in the
streets last week. A horse belonging TO
the Mansfield barn broke loose alter it
was harnessed to the sleigh, took to the
sidewalk and demoIalized things gener-
ally. No one was injured, though great
ly endangered, while the horse was turn
ing his first half mile.
The subject of better heating of the
Town Hall should be earnestly consiu-
cred at the coming March meeting. The
loss and endangering of health occasioned
while attending amy public gathering
there in the winter is Il matter of no light
Importance. and should be matter of
temperature Is OIL Il cold day, and further
comments here are unnecessary.
The farmers meeting held at the Town
Hall last Friday was apparently in the
interest of the Cooley Dreamer, or Vt.
Farm Machine Co. The Cooley method
of setting milk is unquestiUmably good
one, but the first cost is what many of
our farmers are hesitating about. III
crease in the price OF butter and relief
from labor and the necessary expense of
home manufacture are subjects meritinS
much close figuring aud good Judgment
on the part of the dairymen. There will
be Il quietus on the dairy preparations
and expenses for the season until the
creamery question is fully settled.