News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-12-25

visiting at l.. B. Soper's.
Miss Winnie Cheney will spend a
part of the winter in Burlington.
Truman Morrill, fell in his house
Saturday night and broke his wrist.
Mrs. c. C. Dodge of Cady's Falls
has moved into Mrs. MOrgan's house.
I'D. Bryant and wife started Fri
day for a short pleasure trip to Bos-
ton.
A. F. Whitney has been confined to
the house some time with quinsy
sores.
Bertha Terrill is at home from st.
Johnsbury academy during Christ
mas vacation.
Miss Nettie Spalding has returned
home from Montpelier tor a two
weeks vacation.
Fred Fleetwood came home from
Harvard college on Saturday for the
Christmas vacation.
Geo. W Lang, father ofour popu-
lar jeweler, Geo. c. Lang, was in town
a few days last week.
Charles Goozey has returned from
Johnson and will work for a time in
the Daniels tub factory.
A few from here will attend the
Henry NJ. Stanley lecture at st.
Johnsbury or Burlington.
Miss Glines, teacher in the st.
Johnsbury academy, is spending the
holidays at Hon p K Gleed's.
Annual meeting of Mount Vernon
lodge F. & A. NJ. tonight at Z p. m.
Election of officers. Come out all.
Miss Jennie Hickok, who is teach
ing at Newburyport, Conn.,, spends
the holidays with her mother in town.
F. A. Ellison succeeds S. B. Clark
as White & Co. IS travelling salesman,
starting upon his first trip last
Thursday.
Regular meeting of Coral chapter,
.. E. S, Tuesday, Dec 30, 7:30 o. m
Election of officers. A full attend
ance desired.
Rev. Mr.. Douglass children h,1s.ye
been quite sick with measles,r, - sll,.
Dopglass sister is - '---'s''WI ioF
lOrU stay
Do not forget the Board of Agricul-
ture meeting, which is to be held at
Morrisville Tuesday and Wednesday,
Jan. 6 and Z.
On Friday 400 acres of granite
land at Woodbury. was sold by Judge
Powers to w. H. Farrand for $4,000.
The stone is to be quarried at once
Some very severe winter weather
with high winds has been experienced
the past week, but for all the mer-
chants report a rushing Christmas
trade.
L. B. Boynton is again running the
depot restaurant, having taken pos
session last week. Gilman Barrows |
has bee in charge since Mr.. Deming
left.
Fisk Gates have the agency for
the Ney Hampshire Fire Insurance |
compan in addition to the WELL /
known ompanies heretofore repre-
sented.
Largeand appreciative audiences
greeted he minstrel show both even
ings, anfhe boys showed themselves
to be artts in burnt cork and color.
Tuesdaynight they went to Stowe
and wersyell received.
Followg are the officers elected
at the lst annual meeting of Post
Warner,i A. R.: Geo. Cheney, c.;
Austin wilkins, S. V. c.; E. D. Gil
bert, j. NC.; j. c. Richardson, O. D.;
John Daiels, Q. NJ; A. A. Niles,
Chap; G W. Doty, Surgeon; A. l..
Champea, Officer of the Guard.
Henry1. Stanley, the great African
explorer, will appearin st. Johnsbury
Tuesday We, Jan. 18th, 1890. Tick
cts NAV low be ordered of C. c. Bing-
ham. st Johnsbury. Admission,
81. 90: seats 81 so and 5000 Round
trip tickets will be sold on the st. J.
4 L. C. r. r., at stations between
Morrisville and Lunenburg.
There is a practice INDUCED in each
winter. on Portland street especially,
which ought to be stopped. This is
fbe fashion of driving at will over the
sidewalks and of leaving teams stand
inc on the crossings, particularly IN
front of the post-office. Occasionally
Iba9al7sr iffs5 1fssO 'stosr1.eiF,g1
there. ard everybody, ladies and all,
must wade around through the snow
and mud. Lett be stopped before
the village fathers have to take hold
of it.
In the late library meeting some
words were spoken in regard to the
ability of towns to maintain their
libraries. and of Siowe in particular.
A friend gives us atable of the differ
emf amounts appropriated each year
from 1869 to 1888, which would
average not far from $3.50. In one
case only it fell beow $50, once ~
went above 5000, and once above
5000. The library is still runnInS S'
we believe. Is Morristown TO De coy
tent with doing less?
..Words of Life" is a wall ron 0i
~ pages. 14x21 inches, adorned WIN
. handsome white cover prlnteu III
cold and purple, fastened TO an dI-
fio,e oak rod, with gilt ends. hdch
oa@e containing d Bible teXU Tor
norning, noon and nlghU III 4 s,n
clear type, also a gem - ~ M
orits author 1t Is gotten up Dy I
Mrs. Bell, wife Of Rev; NJ. +. Bel
formerly of this place. Every amlly
should have one. Retail price oOc. {
Special rates to clubs. On sale at
bookstores generally. Address Mrs.
NJ. E. Bell, Craftsbury.
Rev. Madison c. Peters leetured
Thursday evening on the subject els .
1farriege a Failure? ?" in the presence
- b0useful of anxious ones. The +
weather W. was unpleasant, but despite
tbat there was large attendance. I
- 70 the lecture itself, it vas not so
.lIoa =. TO- as another might have been. 0
though it is but Justice 60 say that
I'M was not the lecture OF his choice.
Another time, when the remainder of
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