News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-06-06

: Tie hearts OF the NetS.
The examination of candidates fc
/ University scholarship will take plac
) at the Academy Tuesday, June II
commencing at 9 a. IN.
Conductor Carr and wife were i
town on Monday. A change in tn
railroad timetable is not expecte,
before the last of the month.
Charles Holmes and family move t.
the J. G. Robinson house this week
The latter sold surplus stock @
household goods at auction on Satur
day.
The band, with ten pieces, went t,
Wolcott on Thursday, and did excel
lent service there, considering tn
amount of practice in the past 81,
months.
George Lang, jeweler with F. E
Healey, goes to LaPorte, Indiana, fo
a term of further instruction in al
expert jewelers. college. All will hop,
that Mr.. Lang may return here to con
tinue his work.
The Sons of Veterans made thei
first public appearance on Memoria
Day. They did service as the firing
squad in the cemetery, and were under
command of G. w. Doty, for whom
the camp is named.
Rev. Mr.. Culver, Presiding Elder,
was in town over Sunday, holding
quarterly conference at Elmore on
Saturday afternoon and preaching al
the Methodist church, here, on Sun
day morning and evening.
Leon Darling, at work for W. S.
Cheney, was quite badly kicked by a
horse cast In the barn Tuesday even
ing. The blow from the horse struck
the boy in the pit of the stomach and
on one arm. knocking him across the
barn.
Mrs. Mckenzie, wife of the General
Superintendent of the Mexican Central
railroad, Mrs. Drury, of Essex juno
ton, and Mrs. Deyette and children,
of Charlotte, have been visiting at
Mrs. Irish's and Mrs. McClintock's
during the past week.
Hon. f. A. Cushman and wife are
here again, after several weeks
absence. Mr.. and Mrs. Cushman,
Mr.. and Mrs. Currier, Mrs. Reed and
daughter, G. HI. Slocum, o. NJ. Wa
terman, G.. NJ. Powers, and W. H.
Robinson take their meals at Hotel
Boynton.
The Grand Chapter of the O. E. S.
is in session here to-day, and large
number of delegates from the several
Chapters throughout the State are in
attendance. The work was exempli-
fed by Coral Chapter last hight. A
full report of the proceedings will
appear in our next issue.
The Water Company give notice
that they will charge So for the use of
hose in the future. This rule will not
apply to single families where a rental
Of Sl5 or over is paid. Parties wish
ing to use hose should give notice
The company has found it necessary
10 do this because of increase in num-
Der of those who are using hose and
consequently taking great amount of
water.
W. H. Robinson has purchased his
ather's interest in the business which |
hey have together carried on for sew
,ral years. The old firm had the rep
ltation of dealing fairly with their
'atrons and of keeping a good line of
,oods, and the same policy will be fol-
owed in the future. Will is one of
be reliable young men of the town
nd is sure to get fair share of the
'ublic patronage which he certainly
deserves.
Rev. W. E. Douglass and family,
making five, were driving near Geo.
curriers', Tuesday evening, when Joe
,haplin, who lay at the side of the
cad in an intoxicated condition, at
empted to get up and in so doing
frightened Mr.. Douglass horse and
ne covered carriage was overturned,
nth all the occupants. Very FORUM
tely the five escaped serious injury,
ut the carriage is complete wreck.
A goodly number of relatives and
riends from this and adjoining towns
net at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
(. Spaulding, May 20, it being the
fitch anniversary of their marriage.
Notwithstanding the rain without,
rery pleasant afternoon was spent with |
he aged couple. Mr.. /. \. LeBaron
presented the numerous gifts with
remarks, and bountiful
supper was provided by the ladies.
4 fine poem, which our limited space
will not permit US to publish, was
written for the occasion by a niece of
Mrs. Spaulding.
MEMORIAL DAY.
Memorial Day has come and gone,
the day which of all the days in the
year brings freshly to every soldier OF
the war the memory of days and scenes
gone by, of the camp, the march, the
battle; of joys and sorrows, of hard
ships endured that "The nation might
live" of those who gave their lives to
this end on every field, in every hos
pital, in every prison pen where so
many slowly wasted their strength by
disease and starvation, or returned
with shattered health to linger amidst
home scenes for a time and then an
swer to the last roll call. AS in for
mer wears, Post J. u. Warner, No. 4,
observed the day by decorating the
graves of all soldiers within the juris-
diction of the Post and by public ser
vices in this village. The graves
were decorated in the forenoon in all
the outside cemeteries by details
appointed for that purpose. The flag
we love so well was placed over each
comrades grave and beautiful flowers
strewed on the grassy mounds. As
years pass we find the number increas-
ing. One by one our comrades are
- mustered out" and the steps of those
that remain grow more feeble. The
number of graves decorated this year
is about seventy-fve, and they are in
the several cemeteries i'll this town, all
but one of these containing one OF
more, and those in Gilmore, at the
| Pond and on the West side, and the