News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-22
HYDE PARK.
Grass is blooming. "

IOLI Il TWO weeks SOJOufn at swan
| ton
Phil Clark, the depot telegrapher,
has a job in the Adirondacks for the
summer.
H. j. Lilley is making extensive
improvements in the interior of his
dwelling.
Mrs. Robt, Stewart and daughter,
from Fletcher, are the guests of j. s.
Leach's family.
Leon Wiswell of the L. Y. NJ. came
home Friday, and is now wrestling
with the measles.
VIM. Dorr, from Essex, is doing
the blacksmithing for P. T. DEMO,
during the latter's illness.
Mrs. Jennie Riley, accompanied by
DR.. Cooper, has gone to Boston to
consult physicians regarding the re
mOval of tumor.
Geo. Randall's horse, Claymont
Patchen, is looking very fine this
spring. He will make his usual cir
cult during the season.
Bert Wiley, for the past year clerk
for c. NJ. Strong, has returned to
Waterville. During his stay here
Bert made many friends.
Regular semi-monthly promenade
social at the Town Hall Saturday
evening c. P. Sawyer succeeds Ar
thur Allen as general director.
Mrs. E. A. Start, whose husband is
in the employ of C. S. Page, came
from Cambridge, Mass, last week
and will spend few weeks in town
Secretary of War Proctor has sent
to Aaron Keller Post G. A. r. full
sett of maps of the battle fields of
the rebellion, with which said Post
are much pleased.
The road commissioners are re
building the bridge leading to the
John Gray farm, and also making
perceptible improvements in Their DAD
in that neighborhood.
Wiswell has received a fresh lot of
tomato plants to take the place of
those We announced last week as
froze out. "Uncle Adna" says he
now has enough to supply home de
mand.
The suggestion is made in view of
the large increase in attendance upon
the Sunday evening services, that the
meetings be held in the main room of
the church. What say those in
charge?
Fred Keller and Phil Clark went
fishing Saturday. By paying strict
! 70 Erh 70 LII
notice of the signs posted along the
streams, Keller came home with the
most fish.
Farmers are busy with blowing and
planting; tOwns-peOple are in the
midst of the delights of house-clean-
| ing; merchants-whOd do not adver-
tise-stand at the door and wonder
why the streets are empty.
! We-and in this case the editorial
we means our family-are indebted to
Isaac Vaughan for a generous supply
of homegrown lettuce. 1t was very
nice and just the stuff, and we hereby
tender our thanks to Uncle Isaac for
remembering us.
Those who owe for their newspaper
should hustle around and pay up be-
fore the census enumerator calls upon
them and begins to ply them with
questions regarding their indebted
ness, for nobody cares to go onto the
records for that kind of a debt.
The Democratic caucus Tuesday
night elected Chas. Crane, F. H.
Strong, H. NJ. Noyes, and B. E. Bull
lard delegates to the coming State
convention, and F. n. Keller, E. l..
NOyes, H. d. W. DOty, and A. A.
Bliss delegates to the district conven-
ton. Both conventions are to be
held in Burlington.
Rev. j Tate Kits lecture on China
was not very literally patrOnized.
Those who did attend were given a
very instructive as we'll as interesting
lecture. Had the speaker "boiled
down his lecture to about half size
it would have suited better. Two
hours of solid talk is a little too
heavy gin these days of railroad
speed"
John Cobleigh brought in from his
barn a few days ago a sOft-shelled
egg which measured SAX9R. So
large was it that he exhibited it to
his neighbors and then took it home
and proceeded to dissect it, when to
his amazement he found within it
another egg of regulation size with a
hard shell thereon. John has heard
of a "wheel within a Wheel" but this
is the first time he ever heard of an
egg within an egg.
Complaint is made against the
practice of using the streets of this
village as a trotting course. House
keepers complain because of the
amount of dust raised which fill the
houses, while mothers are in fear O
their children being run over. We
think that those who speed theil
horses on the streets do so without
giving the matter any thought, anC
now that mention is made of it, it il
hoped they will abandon the danger
Gus practice,