News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20
HYDE PARK.

HYDE PARK.
The winter term at the Academy
closed Tuesday.
The American House is having a
good run of patronage these days.
Remember Prof. SCOTS stereopti-
con exhibition at the Town Hall
Thursday evening.
Geo. Stratton has rented fiat in
the "Alhambra," and will soon re-
e''me housekeeping.
The work of fitting up the new
post-office building is going on rapid
ly, under the supervision of E. F.
Mann
The Ladies' Aid Society is arrang-
ing to present ''Aunt Dinah's Husk-
ing Bee" the most humorous enter
tainment of the season.
The Cracker" sociable last We'd
nesday evening was a very unique
and pleasant affair. Prof. Gilbert
took the premium on crackers.
Talk about going West A farmer
IN Oregon saw an advertisement in
the News AND CITIZEN of a farm for
sale in this town and writes for prices,
ETC., saying that he is going to return
to Vermont next summer.
To-day is Ash Wednesday, the
opening of the Lenten season. The
Pope has absolved the adherents of
his church everywhere, who have
been suffering with the influenza,
from fasting during Lent.
Foster D. Randall's 73d birthday
occurred last Friday, and while the
event was a pleasant one, it was
made doubly SO by the receipt of a
handsome present from his daughter,
Mrs. Henry Reed of Duluth, MINI.
Book agents, representing the va
rious school book houses in Boston,
are focking into town very numerous
ly. The cause of the influx is owing
to the fact that the County Board of
Education will determine soon what
books shall be used in the public
schools.
No man should deprive his wife
and family of good local - ~-.us,,a,,er
ihey Go nor go out from home to
learn the news as does the husband
and father, and the paper serves to
relieve the otherwise lonely hours of
his absence. 1t is the worst possible
economy to deprive the family of
local paper.
The annual reports for this town
will soon be in the hands of the
printer, and will be ready for distri-
button the last of next week. Every
taxpayer should get one and examine
it carefully before the day of town
meeting, and thereby ascertain if the
towns servants have acted wisely and
judiciously in performing their duties.
We are informed unreliable author
ity that Gen. Geo. w. Getty, late
| commander of the second division,
9th corps, will visit Vermont the COM
ing summer and will be present at
the Lamoille County reunion to be
held next summer He expresses
himself as being glad to meet the
Vermonters with whom he was so in
timately associated during the war of
the Rebellion.
The oyster business was pretty
lively for a little while last Saturday
afternoon. Redmond and Waite en-
gagged in the business for a short
time and the rapidity with which
they worked off several gallons of
prime oysters can not be equalled by
the most experienced venders. Next
time, however, they will buy direct
from headquarters, and not be sub
iect to the manipulations of middle
men,"
The members of the Juvenile Tenn
pie of this place, will give an enter
tainment consisting of music, recita-
tons, dialogues, ETC., at the Town
Hall Wednesday evening, Feb. 20.
After the literary exercises, refresh
ments will be served for q sr.,s.ii s!,aiii COM
pensation, and social time enjoyed
by all. The exercises are all by the
children of the Temple, and the pro-
ceeds are to be used in buying sup
plies for the same. Admission to hall,
FIVE cents,
A newspaper may boom a town
through its editorial and news col
unns, but the critical investor looks
to the advertising columns for sub
stantial evidence of push and life
To him they are barometer; they
measure the intensity of the public
warmth; they are the pulse which in
dicate the healthy or unhealthy con
dition of the collective body OF peo
pie; they tell him what lie wishes t.
know-whether or not the communi
, tv is up to the times in busines
matters.
{ While there is a general dispost
ton to find fault with the official act
of several of the town officers, W
hear no complaint whatever concerr
! ing our faithful and efficient Boar
of Fence Viewers. They were Gale
!. out once last summer and very am
cably settled a heated controvers
concerning a certain line fence. The
have proved themselves well tltte
for the place and it would be in keel
. ing with the rules of ''Civil service r.
! form to retain Messrs. SPauldIn|
I Jackson and Hill in this Office. LIZ
us make it unanimous and have n
; "billet" on this office,
A large number (over 4o) of II
HYDE Park friends of c. A. Kngl
n and wife had a pleasant sleigh-rlc
L Tuesday evening. Malvern Farr
e which was the point of destlnatlo
e was reached at an early hour in IL
e evening, and the party tarried the
: until an early hour the next mornln
a ENJOYING the hospitality of their host
G as well as that of C. r. Page and h
/ estimabIe wife. The event was
verv happy one throughout, and
of expressed themselves as having had
sd s5 royal time, and would gladly add the