News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-08-01
HYDE PARK.

Mrs. Geo. Foster and Miss Melissa
Collins of Boston spent last week in this
place with Lester BOomhOWer'S family.
Avery handsomemonumen
through I'll. r. Mack is being erected on
the a. l.. NoyeS lot in the village GENE
terry.
Why don't Hyde Park challenge Nor
ristown in tug Of-war for the centen-
NAL flag 1t seems to us that the flag
ought to come home.
The Supreme Court docket for the
August term of Lamoille County Court
contains tleo cases. The law business
in Lamoille County is not very prolific
these days.
A party of young men from this place
camped on Mt. Mansfield last Thursday
night and witnessed the sunrise next
morning. They had very clear day
for viewing, and report an excellent
time.
The Good Templars' county temper
ance union will be held here Thursday
Aug. s. Half fare on the railroad, with
tickets good for two days, An interest
ing program and general good time
may be expected.
A bachelor remarks that the large ex-
| hibition of baby carriages on our streets
any fine day is evidence that there is no
danger of the human race dying out.
He might also add that Hyde Parks
population is increasing.
| That +. Ii. Mcfarland is very success
full as an apiarist we can fully testify, as
we have personally examined package
of clover honey from his establishment
at st. Adams, and unheSitatingly pro-
nOunce it first class article.
Mrs. AlOnzo Jones died last Thursday
night from consumption. She leaves a
| family of seven children, six boys and a
| girl, the youngest some three years old.
| The funeral took place Saturday. Mr..
Jones it will be remembered, died some
three years ago,
| We are always glad to receive notes of
| happenings for our local columns. Per
sons interested, and all friends general
| ly, will do US a favor by sending us such
items of which they have knowledge,
and which doubtless would be of inter
est TO the public.
With to-day "Wednesday the season
for trout fishing closes. We have not
learned of any very large catches this
season-all owing perhaps to the six
inch law, which appears to have con-
siderably damaged the ardOr of our pis-
catorial sportsmep.
The lightning ratified around pretty
lively among the telephone wires during
the storm Monday afternoon. At the
central Office in SherWin's store it cut
one Of the outside wires in two and also
appeared in the inside of the building
creating good-siZed blaze on the switch
board and giving the wires and cords g
general scOrching. Fortunately, no seri-
Gus damage was done.
ID. r. Sherwin sent to w. w. Cook OF
Burlington specimen of the plant with
a yellow blossom, which is found in
many of the fields that were stocked last
year, asking what it was. The Professor
replied as follows 1T is the yellow
clover. The plant was introduced into
this country from Europe, and scattered
quite thoroughly over New England. il
is practically harmless, and never grows
where it has to fight for a living"
Harry Nichols and Charles Cooper
for the past few months in the employ
of G. S. Page, left Monday for Montreal
from which place they will sail for Lon
don, their fatherland. They go on g
visit and will return to this country il
the course of few months. Nichols
has been in America four years, and