News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-27
JEFFERSONVILLE.
DR.. Flagg is much better.
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DF. Elagg Is mucA better.
Fri Horner has broken his arm.
Mrs Hattie Wetherby is gaining, also Mrs
F. Wetherby
Arthur Wood and Alex Lang have taken
the contract to fill the ice-house at the depot.
Fred REYNOLDS was buried at North Cam
bridge last Sunday, Rev. Mr.. Bowen Officia-
ting.
Fred Smith has rented an ice-plow and is
cutting ice, and the ice harvest is going rap
idly on at present.
Sam Malanson while drawing logs from
Tucker & Bunkers was thrown from the load
and severely injured.
The snow storm last week blocked UP the
roads so that the BeIvidere stage did not re-
port Thursday and Friday.
The Drum Corps was out last Saturday
evening serenading Geo. Melvin, also Wether-
by & Page, and receiving cigars stole quietly
away.
The Endeavor Society have just received
some very neat topic cards, each card having
on it the officers, committees and leader for
each meeting for the next six months
Phoenix Lodge gave its entertainment Fri
day evening to the satisfaction of a good
house, and they are to repeat it Friday eve
ming, March Z, with a few changes in pro-
gramme. Admission ten cents.
Rev. Mr.. Kits preached again last Sab
bath, from Gal. 5:6, to a full house, and all
were more than pleased to listen to so able
q sermon. Originalin Illustrations and IDEAS
eloquent in delivery and master of his ser
mon he has the power to hold an audience
that very few speakers possess, as was shown
in his evening lecture on some of the difficult
ties that missionaries meet with in China.
Although two services had already been held
evening found a crowded house waiting to
hear what Mr.. kits had to relate of China,
and for nearly two hours he held his audience
perfectly quiet, speaking without notes. All
are hoping the church committee may en-
gage Mr.. Kits as pastor,
COMMITTED SUICIDE.
This village was shocked Friday morning
by the news that Frank Weston had hung
| himself, which proved to be true. The facts
of the sad case, as learned later, follow:
Frank Weston, a farmer living near Cam
bridge junction, had been in poor health for
some little time. and had remarked to his
wife several times that he wished he was
dead Friday Mr.. Weston had two men
drawing ice, and at noon he said to one of
| the men that he wished he would not 90 after
ice that afternoon, but the man thought
| nothing more about it and went with the
other man after a load of ice Soon after
the men went away Mr.. Weston went to the
| barn. Being gone some time Mrs. Weston
| sent the little girl, about ten years old. to
| find her father. In few minutes she came
running in, and said, Father is hung by the
! big barn door" Mrs. Weston screamed to a
man loading logs near by, and he ran up to
! the barn and found Mr.. Weston hanging by
| a strap. Putting his arms around the body
| he lifted it up until the strap loosened but he
was unnble to get it off from the neck so he
called to the hired man, who was just getting
| home with load of ice. The man came up,
and together they took Mr. Weston down,
but no signs of life appeared This was
about an hour after Mr.. Weston had left the
| house, and it was now p. m. Mr.. Weston
had taken line out of harness, buckled
the loop, and put the other end through,
thus forming loose slip-noose. Then he
must have walked up the ladder that led to
the scaffold and tied the strap to piece of
timber that had been used to dress beef cat
tie on Then he must have jumped off the
ladder into eternity. When found, his feet
nearly touched the floor.
No cause is known why Mr.. Weston should
have done so rash an act. Later u razor was
found in his pocket. Nj. Weston was pros
porous farmer and owned a good property
He leaves a family of five children. Two OF
his sons are in business in Hanover, N. H.,
and one son and two daughters are at home
The funeral services were held at the new
church. Rev Mr.. Wheelock officiating. The
family have the sympathy of all