News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-04-18

George j. Slayton has something
TO say in another column about phos-
pilates. Read his ad.
Currier has justreturned from mark
ct, and of course, as usual, has some
thing to show for the trip. We don't
know much about it, hut if the ladies
don't soon find out you may set us
down as a poor guesser. He has
new advertisement this week.
Rev. W. R. Puffer preached the
last sermon of the conference year on
Sunday, at the close of which he re-
ported that he had preached 10 SER
/ mons, attended 25 funerals, held 200
social meetings, made some $50 calls
and raised the money to build the
new church. The stewards announced
that but about $50 was wanted to
balance the finances also requested
an expression from the congregation
present, which was unanimous, in re-
questing that Mr.. Pufer continue his
services as pastor if health will per-
! nit; also giving an expression of
thanks for his untiring efforts in be-
half of the church since his connection
as pastor.
We clip the following from the
jamestown, Oak, daily AIert in re-
gard to Bailey W. Fuller, formerly of
Eden. The next issue of the Alert
informs US that Mr.. Fuller was cleo
ted by an overwhelming majority, re-
ceiving 465 votes out of $50 cast. We
tender our congratulations -
1t gives the ALERT great pleasure to be able
to announce to the voters of the city that
Mr. B. W. Fuller has finally consented to per-
NIT the use OF his name as a candidate for
Mayor. For several months there has been
growing sentiment in his favor, and when
Mayor Allen gave as his ultimatum that he
was not candidate, that sentiment quickly
crystalized into a determination to make
Bailey W. Fuller his successor Notwith-
standing the fact that this determinatiG,a
was general and the further fact that this
feeling was strongest among the business men,
an obstacle sprung up which proved to be
almost unsurmountabe. That obstacle lay
in Mr.. Fuller himself. 1t was his disinclina-
ton to enter into politics and the reluctance
with which he contemplated the time, which,
If elected, he would be Obliged to take from
his own large business affairs and transfer to
the city's affairs There is a limit to human
endurance, however, and the pressure became
so strong that he consented to allow the vot-
ers to confer on him the highest honor in
their gift, which, it is hardly necessary to add,
they will certainly do tomorrow. Mr.. Fuller
is one of the heaviest tax payers and largest
property owners in the county Although he
has always studiously avoided mixing up in
politics, and has never been considered in the
light of a politician, there is no one who will
for a minute question his fitness for office. A
native of the Green Mountain State, he pos
sesses in a marked degree the shrewdness and
common sense of the Yankee. As an old res
ident of jamestown, he is acquainted with
city's history and knows it's needs. As a
large property owner and a heavy tax payer
he is directly and personally interested in a
careful and economical administration, and
being successful business man in his private
affairs, 1T is but natural to expect that he will
direct the citys affairs in equally as sa tisfac
tory a manner as that in which he has con-
Quoted his own. A clean, careful, conserva-
tive administration, economical, but not mig
gardly, is what may be expected from Mayor
Fuller.