News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-05-23

Charles Kneeland returned from Rut
land Friday evening.
Abiiah Buck is visiting friends in St
Johhsbury and Hanover, N. H.
Rollan Woodward returned TO st. Al.
bans Monday to resume his law studies.
C. II. Stearns and Il. A. Riddle were al
the Adirondack last week on fishing
| trip.
Jerry Barlow and wife have moved
from Lowell into the Cilley house neal
Saxby's mill.
George Whitfield has returned from
Francistown, N. H., where he has been
the past winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Shepardson, OF
Fairfax, spent Sunday with Rev. N. G.
Saunders and family.
Charles Blake goes this week to Palm
er, Mass, where he has a situation in the
/ State Primary School.
| Services at the different churches on
/ Sunday and Wednesday evenings will
commence at 7.30 O'Clock.
! Fred Jones went to Lebanon, n. H..
on Monday, where he has employment
in shop with his brother Willie.
Charles Powell, who has moved his
family from North Concord, is employed
| by Thomas Margetts on his section.
Mrs. Frank Atwell and children have
secured pension amounting to between
twelve and thirteen hundred dollars.
B. A. Hunt was called to Waterbury by
telegram Saturday, his daughter being
very sick with bronchitis at Mrs. Hunts
fathers.
Mrs. Edward LaPage and her child,
hpnn jrin MI rlS
Oak, returned to her mothers, Mrs. Jo-
seph Barnard's, last week.
Willard Boyes, who is employed at the
Saranac Ian, is in town for his wife, who
has been spending few weeks at her
fathers, David Holdridge's.
The ladies of the Baptist church invite
all attending Memorial Day exercises to
take dinner at their church. Full din
ner will be served for Is cents.
III. A. Waterman has greatly improved
the looks of his residence by the addi-
ton of a portico over his front door, de-
signed and built by Arthur Pike.
A Republican hen owned by Daniel
Prince comes to the front, laying an egg
that measures by 10 inches, going
ahead of the Gilmore Democratic hen.
The Baptist Sunday school elected J.
A. Andrews and wife and L. l.. Pearl as
delegates to attend the Sunday school
convention to be held at Bennington
June 4, and 6.
The Old Brigade Post is making ar
engagements through a committee for
Memorial Day, and an interesting pro-
gramme has been completed. On Sun
day, May &c, there will be Union service
es at the Baptist church, sermon by Rev.
n. G. Saunders. On Decoration Day the
procession will be formed in fl ont of the
Town Hall at s a. N. johnson Serenade
Band will head the procession. Chas.
D. Davis, as chief marshall and aids
will be taken from the Normal school.
An investigation has been extended to
the Normal and graded schools to join
the procession and teams will be in read
mess to take them. 1t is hoped that all
will bring flowers, either made into bo-
quets, notices or in baskets. The pro-
cessiOn will march to the Plot cemetery
where the graves of the soldiers will be |
decorated at 8 O'Clock, then to the River
cemetery, where services will be held at |
1870. Returning to the village. dinner |
will be served at II m. by the Baptist la
dies at their Vestry for Is cents. At l |
O'Clock the procession will reform and |
proceed to the village cemeteries, where |
appropriate memorial services will be |
held, returning to the Normal Hall for |
the address at p. M, where prayer will
be offered by Rev. A. A. Smith. There |
will be appropriate literary exercises by |
students in the Normal aud Grammar |
schools, followed by an address by Hol-
lis S. Wilson, of Morrisville. Music will
be furnished by male quartette and the
Serenade Band.