News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-12-18
HYDE PARK,
Holidaygoods at Strong's.

Holidaygoods at Strongs.
Lizzie Rice of No Cambridge is
clerking for L. B. Sherwin.
Eben Barnes killed a yearling toro
last week which dressed AIS lbs.
DR.. Cooper has a word to say to
parties owing him; see business no.
tices.
Arthur Allen is clerking for Leo &
McLaren at Burlington during the
holidays.
jay Ward has accepted clerkship
in a store at Meredith, n. H. Sorry
to lose him.
Child & Waite lost one of their
horses last week. There was too
much of a lean on it.
Marcus Gould was called to Can
ada last week by the death of his
sOn-in-law, Geo. Martin.
Dottie Keller succeeds Lucy Saw
yer as assistant in the primary de-
partment at the Academy.
The stereopticon entertainment
last Friday evening was thinly at
tended. But few knew of the event.
lis said it was very good.
The County Clerks office is under
going a renovatiOn-this we presume
because of the handsome appearance
of the other parts of the court house.
The measles still continue to hold
the fort. Among the children who
have lately come down with them are
MyrOn Cheney, Geo. Stratton and
Henry Hall.
The Christmas exercises take place
at Town Hall next Wednesday even
ing at O'Clock. Everybody invit-
ed. Go and hear the children sing
and see the happy faces. Twill do
you good.
Joshua p. Sawyer, son of the late
Joshua Sawyer of this place has
been missing for many years. The
last seen or heard of him was at the
National Republican Convention in
Chicago in 1880, when he called upon
{. s. Page. He would not tell where
he lived, and his relatives here had
about concluded that he was dead.
He was a soldier in the late war and
his brother, Col. E. B. Sawyer, has
tried through the various G. A. r.
Posts and National Encampments to
get some tidings of him, but without
avail. Monday night the Colonel re-
ceived a letter from Geo. Ballard
stating that his brother had been in
st. Adams the past week, where the
necessary papers were made out and
he had gone to the soldiers home at
h,
he has not visited home or commune
Gated with his friends is beyond COM
prehensiOn. 1t certainly must be a
relief to them to have learned, after
so many years of anxiety, of his
whereabouts.
HELD FOR FORGERY.
Frank Wheeler, living of late in
MOrrisville, but a native of this town,
is just now a sojourner in Montreal
where he is held for forging E. L.
Moves name to a $500 draft. 1t
seems that Frank has been up to
Canada a few times after horses,
which he would buy and bring into
the States and SELL He was up there
recently on this sort of business and !
brought out a couple of horses, pay
ing part cash and giving note for the
balance. When the first note came
due, he after a while, paid it. When |
the next matured he failed to meet it, |
when the parties in Canada began to |
think something was wrong, SO they |
set a trap whereby to catch their
man. They notified Frank they had
some more good horses and asked |
him to come up and see them. Frank
went at once and picked out a pair
The parties then demanded pay for
them as we'll as the payment of his
old obligation, which he promptly
met by producing a draft signed by
E. l.. NOyes, cashier of the Lamoille
Co. Nat. Bank. Thinking everything
was not right they notified Mr.. Noyes
of the fact, who Immediately tele-
graphed it was forgery. Wheeleris
now held by the police at Montreal,
awaiting Noyes' presence there. I'm
less his friends intercede it looks as
though Wheeler would be an occu-
pant of the Kingston, Ont, prison
for a few years. We understand he
is wanted here also for forging notes
to the amount of 5000 or so. Frank
has been devoting considerable time
lately to gambling and says that is
where he has dropped a largo pile of
his money. The case is a sad one
and shows how easy it is to get into
ways of crookedness. A short time
ago he forged a note for $25, but on
making it good was allowed to go
free, whereas if he had been punished
these later transactions might not
have occurred. He has a wife and
five little ones, who will be thrown
onto the mercies of the town, if he is
sent to prison,