News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20
NEW ENGLAND NEWS.
MASSACHUSETTS,

Mrs. Mary Waterhouse johnson of Hub
bardstOn died recently, aged 101 years.
| Mrs. Frank l.. Fish has sent check fol
| 800 to the Morton Hospital at Taunton.
There is to be an addition to the Pairpoint
| Works at New Bedford "A feet long and four
stories high.
Shipment of shoes from Haverhill for the
! week ending March g., 1888 cases; CORE
| spending week last year, 6,364 cases.
| Hugh Curry of Hinsdale was found frozen
| to death on Friday. 1t is supposed he lost his
way in the snow storm Thursday night.
| Mrs. John Z. Slr ford of Taunton has
given the Morton Hospital and the Old La
| dies Home 81 900 each, in memory of her
mother. Mrs. Albert Field, recently deceased.
Bourn at its town meeting Saturday elected
these officers: Clerk and Treasurer, .. X.
Swift; Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers
of the Poor, David ID, Nye, L. r. Eldredge,
Nathan Nye; appropriations, $4,000. LII
cense vOte-No, 81; yes, SO.
According to the Town report the valua-
ton of Plymouth is S5,5OI 200, of which
624, $50 is real estate and $40 ,250 person
al property. The gain in real estate over last
year is S6S,T15, and in personal S5o,7O0.
Brewster has elected these town officers
Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers of Poor,
j. Fl. Clark, Charles E. Sears, FULLY Crosby,
jr.,; Clerk and Treasurer, +. NJ Snow
School Committee, three years, Thomas ID.
Sears; appropriations, $4,000. License vote
No, A; yes, 1.
The MiddleseX Schoolmasters Club has
elected these officers: President, C. E. Hus-
sey of Newton Upper Falls; Vice Presidents,
f. w. Shattuck of Winchester, Samuel Tucker
of Billerica and II. A. Freeman of Arlington /;
Secretary and Treasurer, S. f. HOtaling of
birmingham.
The Western Union New England Delta
Itth hall rs ion
and banquet at Springfield Saturday. These
officers were elected President, Judge Hitch
cock of Chicopee; Vice President, J. w.
Lamb of Hartford; Secretary and Treasurer,
D. b. Rowland of Springfield, and an Ex-
ecutiYe Committee.
The TTTf--ses of the Indian Orchard Mills
Corporation, which plant has long been Idle,
have agreed to sell the property for $4,000
Boston parties will furnish one-half of the
capital required, and 1900 shares of the stock
have been subscribed in Springfield, where
an operating fund of $4,000 has also been
raised.
The Schoolmasters' Club of the Connecti-
cut Valley has been.formed, with these Off
GERS: President, II. b. Knox, of Palmer;
Vice President, F. s. Morrison, of Hartford;
Secretary and Treasurer, William Orr, Jr.,
of Springfield. Rev. A. E, Winship, of
Boston and eX-Representative S. S. Taft, of
Palmer were made honorary members.
\ gentleman whose name is withheld has
offered to efray the expense of erecting and
furnishing a cottage at the WestborO' Insane
Hospital for the use of over-sensitive patients
whose condition might he ameliorated by
greater freedom and exclusion than can be
provided by the present hospital structures.
The cost will be S2500 to $4,000, and the gen.
erous offer has been accepted by the Trus-
tees.
A valuable collection of Indian relics, fos-
sis, etc, purchased of Rev. Joseph Provost
of Springfield has been placed in the Liley
Hall of Science at Smith College, Northamp-
ton. There are in all over $4,000 specimens,
valued at $1,000 The collection was secured
by contributions of friends of the college, the
largest contributors being President Seelye,
eX-Mayor Hill of Northampton, Hon. VIII
liam Whiting of HOlyOke and L. L. Lorillard,
COrneGa Warren, d. B. Wesson, Elizabeth
Lawrence and Mrs. William Halle of Spring
field.
Joseph H. Thayer, arrested at Lowell
charged with ENLIGHTENMENT from Frederick
Taylor, acknowledges the Offense and has
given up bank books said to represent nearly
$500.
The Fall River Electric Light Company
has elected these officers: Treasurer, Owen
Durfee; Directors, NJ. j. Perry, F. S. Stevens,
w. II. Hathaway, j. d. Flint, E. L. An
thony, F. o. Dodge.
F. Groves of Fitchburg, freight brakeman
on the tltcnburg Railroad, fell from his train
while switching cars in the freight-yard at
Willamstown Monday, and received severe
injuries to his back.
The annual reports show that during the
year the Treasurer of the town of Edgartown
paid $4,000 of the the bonded debt, which
amount matured Jan 1, 1890, Cottage City
paying to him its proportion, S23S4 so, while
proportion, S1615 20, came from
the sinking fund. In the sinking fund is
balance of S2124 y.
Edward Phelan of Orange and Miss Ida
Aloris of Tampa, Fla, were married at
Orange Monday evening, although they never !
saw each other until Saturday. The &C
luaintance was brought about by a matri- |
nonial bureau, and it took about four months
10 develop arrangements.
The annual town report of Plymouth, just |
ssued, contains the following statistics: Val
ration, So 1901 600; real estate, S3.624, $50; |
personal property, S1,S76, 250; gain in real |
estate, S6S, TI5; gain in personal property, |
S5S, 700; number of polls. 20S0; amount of
recommended for the ensuing
year, 500, 247 90; for schools, S25, 800; roads
and bridges, So 300; poor, 81 600; fire de-
partment, S3400; street lighting, $1,000; town
debt and interest, S2700; police, S2100; Dux-
bury and Cohasset Railroad sinking fund,
$500; sidewalks, $1,000; contingent, $500.