News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-30
LOCAL NEWS.
MORRISVILLE.

George Clark and wife are now liy
ing nthe Page house.
Regular meeting of Coral Chapter
0. E. S. Tuesday evening, Feb. 4.
The tannery hands now draw thei
pay Monday night instead of Satur
day.
H. A. Slayton & Co. have a wore
to say to those who want a superio
flour.
Mrs. Cutler, of Mortified, is her
visiting her son, H. E. Cutler, ou
rushing picture-taker.
The stone is being drawn for tn
foundation of the new bakery build
ing to be erected in the spring.
Smith Gates, who came here to at
tend the funeral of his father, Wash
ington Gates, has left for home.
The Methodist quarterly conference
was held Monday afternoon. The
presiding elder was not present.
The next lecture in the course vii
be by Jahu Dewitt Miller Monday
Feb. 10. Subject will be announced
next week.
Prof. E. A. Bishop of Montpelier
will speak at the NJ E. church Sun
day, Feb. 9, instead of next Sabbath
as previously announced.
Rev. P. B. Fisk has just received
notice that the Lamoille Association
of Congregationalminister is to meet
with him on Tuesday, Feb. 4.
Three new safes have come into
town within the past two or three
weeks for o. NJ. Waterman, E. II.
Stone and Postmaster Earle.
Fred Merriam, son of our former
townsman, E. B. Merriam, died at
his home in Topeka, Kan, last week.
An obituary notice appears in anoth-
er column.
A choice lot of new books for the
Congregational Sunday-school libra
ry have been received, and the COM
mittee is getting the first reading of
them this week.
G. K. Currier went to Burlington
on Monday, and bought of W. H.
Hale the store building in which Mr.
Currier has pleased his customers for
more than four years.
Miss Hattie Hickok has returned
to her duties as teacher of elocution
in Schenectady, n. Y, and Miss Jen-
ME to Wellesley college, from which
she is to graduate in June.
The water in the reservoir of the
Morrisville Waterworks is said to be
quite low, and it is thought that
many are letting the water run from
the faucets to prevent freezing.
Walter Gilbert, the popular clerk in
Woodward's drugstore, has been in
dulging in a brief fit of illness for a
week past, and Ernest Brackett very
aceeptably filed his place during that
time.
W. III. Hale, of Burlington, our for
ner toWnsman, who sold his business
lefe six years ago, was In town last
thursday. ne IS conducting "a sue
,essful boot and shoe business in Bur
ington.
Monday evening Fred Parker was
his horse around town, In
with some of his friends,
a la Buffalo Bill, when, owing to an
unknown cause, he was unseated; no
very serious hurt resulted.
A. D. Thomas has bought of C. II.
Slocum a building lot on the corner
of Congress and Union streets, part
of the hotel grounds. Mr.. Thomas
is already drawing stone and will
probably build two houses in the
spring.
A number of our young men took
in the musicians ball at Hyde Park
last Friday night, They all say the
music was worth the whole journey;
there is more than possibility that
Morrisville may hear that orchestra
later on.
The Academy students held the sec
ond lyceum of the term last Friday
evening, the usual bursts of oratory
being projected into space. An en-
ioyable sociable followed, a detach-
ment of Paul's orchestra furnishing
the music.
The beautiful, fleecy snow" has
several times within the past week
spread its white mantle over the
fields. Mother Earth has several
jackets on nov; the sleigh-bells ring,
the ears tingle, the snow-shoYels fly,
runners slide well, and the lumber
men rejoice, while they work like bea-
vers,
The Ladies' Industrial society of
the congregational church will hold
an ''ice-cream social" in the church
vestry next Friday evening, Jan. 81.
A good program of music, readings,
etc, has been prepared; ice cream
and cake viii also be served. An 6d-
mission fee of 15 cents will be charged.
A cordial invitation is extended to all
to attend,
Tuesday evening a goodly number
of people assembled in the Methodist
church to listen to thelecture by Rev
Elihue Snow, of Swanton, upon the
subject characteristics of the Yer.
mont Soldier" Mr. Snow is an able
speaker, and his lecture, grave, gay
| vi DdbllCllCs was iSOfllCd w N1OI llit
closest attention throughout. Th'
net proceeds were $12,4S. A few
army songs were sung before the lee
ture began.
As noticed last week, our centen
NAL is to be observed early next sun
mer. Centennials don't happen ever
year, and we ought to let folks Sc
that we have put in few improv,
ments during the last century S
we would suggest sidewalk epiden
| ic. Let it sweep unchecked throug
the village, and let everybody hay
il bad-so bad that when all is ovt
we shall be high and dry above tt
mud, with clean, broad sidewalks t
begin the next hundred years with.
At meeting of the Quarterly Co
ference of the NJ. +. church held c
Monday of this week, the entire boar
of Stewards were reelected, and ais
all the former officials of the churc
: To the Sunday school board the
, we're added five new names: Luth
Adams, Mrs. c. F. Smith, Mrs. A.
whitney. Mrs, Albert Terrill. MI