News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-10-23
HYDE PARK.


r. L. Fairbanks wants more pota-
toes. See business notice.
A. O. Ferguson and family of Bur
lington visited relatives in this place
last week.
The auction sale of harnesses and
yankee notions had a fair business
Monday night.
Geo. Lackey has moved to Morris
vile and Levi Mobiles takes the house
vacated by him.
Mrs. NJ H. Streeter and her daught-
err, Mrs. j. F. Kelley of Swanton are
visiting in town.
C. F. Randall has purchased of w.
S. Pease the four acre lot on the
north side of the depot.
Owing to illness Gov. Page did not
return to Montpelier until Tuesday.
His wife accompanied him.
Julius Holbrook of New York is
stoppingat his uncle Chester's; called
here by the illness of the latter.
Myra Keller, Rosalie Beecher and
NJ. B. Eaton are attending the State
Sabbath School Convention at Wells
River
w. H. H. Kenfield and R. W. HUI
burd are in attendance at the meet
ing of the Vermont Bar Association
at Montpelier.
For disturbing the peace VIM.
Walker paid the sum of $10.95 last
week, and appeared to be satisfied
with the price.
! Overseer Lanpher has been confined
to the house several days with fever
ssore. He now gets about with the
aid of crutch.
If train arrangements are made, a
good delegation will probably go
over to Morrisville to hear "Belva"
Saturday evening.
The long side track, extending from
the water house to the southern side
of Pages hide house, has been put in
and the ballasting of the same is now
going on.
Loren Manley has gone to visit re-
latives in WATERFOWL, n. Y, and on
his return will spend a week in Swan
ton. He expects to be absent about
three weeks.
The school tax for the village dis
trict is now in the hands of the col
lector, E. L. Noyes- To get the four
per cent discount taxes must be paid
before Nov. 18th.
Master Walter Hill now has the
| agency of the Burlington steam laun-
| dry, and the promptness with which
he attends to the business is worthy
of commendation.
/. C. Vaughan and family are to
move to Arlington, Mass, in a few
days where they enter the employ of
Mr.. Vaughn's brother. They expect
to return to Hyde Park next spring.
Farmers league Saturday eve. at Z
for the transaction of important bus
mess, also to elect two delegates to
the county convention to be held at
Hyde Park Saturday, Nov. 18th.
Per order of Sec'y.
Playing cards around the cattle
yards on Sundays is hardly in keep
ing with the good name of our vii
lage, and we are informed unless the
parties who congregate there, for that
purpose stop, the law will be resorted
to.
Application has been made to have
f. II. Strong appointed village agent
for money orders for the American
Express Co. This will be very good
arrangement, as it will do away with
travelling to the depot for that pur-
pose.
Cassivant, one of the witnesses in
the late Hurlburt-Maxfield suit, was
arrested last week for perjury The
labOred efforts of two young lawyers
could not prevent him from being
bound up for appearance before the
grand jury. Geo. Maxfield went bail
for him.
The dockets for the next term of
county court are out. There are 6S
cases on the court calendar and Is
on the chancery-about the usual
number. Judge Taft is to preside
and will be assisted by Judges An
drews and Miller. The term COM
mences Dec I'd.
The grounds about the cold spring
have been cleaned up by trimming
the trees and cutting out the under
III lloIl, WHICH, 81 Wei iICiIIdSOlHC
grove out of the place. 1t will be a
popular resort for our people, who
will appreciate this movement on the
part of the owner, Gov. Page, to give
the public a grove near the village
Prospect Park is suggested as a
name for it.
Frank Slayton has a faculty of dis
arranging things in the station
agent office "just to bother Frank"
The other day he was caught in the
act" and was ordered to put every
thing back in it's proper place-which
he very meekly did. 1t is said that
no western bandit ever more success
fully ''held up" a traveller at, the
point of a siX-shooter than cid True
compel Slayton to perform this duty
at the point of a tin dipper.
The Montpelier Journal of Monday
says: "By Georgel this is a good
one Three George STATIONS met
here Saturday-one, George g., a
commercial traveller, another, George
O., at the Vermont Mutual Fire In
surance Company's office, and the
third, George E., Governor Pages
executive clerk. The three enjoyed a
social hour over the supper-table at
the Pavilion last evening, at the in
vitation of the first-named George.
Each voted the other two mighty
good fellows, and well worthy the
name of Stratton."
Station Agent True takes great
pleasure in getting off a joke on al
most everybody, and his pleasure is
greatly increased when he can state
to his numerous friends how success
full he has been in perpetrating the
Joke Last Saturday morning he
started in bright and early with his
usual manOuverS and attempted to
sprinkle conductor White of the Nor
risville train with dipper of water
| lust as the cars were leaving the sta
| ton. White caught on to the racket,
and when Franks beaming counte-
nance was turned upward, dumped
| the contents of a well filed bucket on
to his head, and Frank pulled and
| blowed like a pOrpOise to recover his
breath and the picture he presented
was anything but handsome. 1t took
some time for him to recover his
equilibrium, and now he has but little
to say about the way he fooled the
conductor.
| CENTREvILLE.
Pay your taxes this month and save the
| four per cent.
We learn that Chester Holbrook is improv-
| ing at this writing.
Parties were in this vicinity recently to look
Mt the property of the late David Campbell