News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-01-29
Johnson.


Otis Balch is very sick with pneumonia.
Mrs A. H. Campbell is visiting her parents
in Rutland.
Charles Crsty has gone to Worcester Mass.
for the winter.
Mrs Robert Mcfarland was in town for
few days the first of the week.
Mrs James Mason of North Troy visited
her niece, Mrs j. A. Pearl, last week
Walter Bradley has so fully recovered from
his sickness as to be able to be out.
Mrs. Knight and daughter Sara are spend
ing the week in Boston and Worcester.
Mrs. J. A. Pearl with her son Leonard is
visiting ut her former home, North Troy.
Ella Reed and Walter Cowan. of Eden, were
the guests of Mrs. 6. \. Sturtevant last
week.
The many friends DR.. J. F. Wilson are
pleased to welcome him among us for a short
stay.
The Baptist Sunday teachers. meet
ing will be held at the parsonage next Friday
evening.
The regular monthly covenant meeting of
the Baptist will be held next Saturday at
two p. m.
Mr. and Mrs Deleran Terril of Underhill
are visiting friends in this town and East
Cambridge.
William Scott has gone to Concord, Mass
to spend the remainder of the winter with his
son. J. f. Scott.
A j. Gould of Bakersfield, has taken pos
session of the Woodward place which he
recently purchased
The Methodist ladies here give sumptuous
teas at the birthdays of the heads of house
hold matrOns.
Arthur Pike will be at LyndOnville for two
weeks putting the machinery into Stearns
new tub factory.
Quarterly meeting was held at the Metho-
dist church last Saturday and Sunday. Pre-
siding Elder Boutwell, was present.
B. S. Fullington has bought the house
owned by the Misses Dougherty and occupied
by Fred Whiting on Railroad street.
The not unexpected intelligence of the
death OF Hon. NJ. 0. Heath. at Sparta, Mich,
last Friday. reached this town at once by
wire.
The friends of Orange Buck both in and
out of town, are glad to see him, or know by
this that he is out again after a three weeks
sickness
Mrs Cowan, mother of Mrs. OrviIle Buck,
who died last week was most thoroughly es-
teemed by those who knew her. Few at her
age, almost 80, had SO strong hold upon
the young.
A. Z. Partlow has gone to Lyndonvile,
having the hopping contract with Stearns x
Stearns in their new butter tub shop. Out
side, as well as in his set, Andy" will be
missed, and welcomed home, come he ever so
| often.
Rev. A. A. Smith was at Robert Barton's
| installation at Salisbury last week. The
| writer DEMONSTRATING heard-What some of
the best parishioners of Mr.. Barton think of
| him. They fear he will not stay as many
! years as he is wanted
The 51st anniversary of Mrs. Chauncey
! Lewis birth was duly celebrated last Friday
afternoon and evening. costly hanging
| lamp fanked by lesser gifts, the attendance
| of 40 people and two handsome babies max
ing " 81 - were a few of the pleasant incidents.
At the annual meeting of the Ladies Social
Circle Mrs l. L. Pearl was chosen president
| Mrs. Saunders Mrs. L. NJ. Fullington and
Mrs B. s. Fullington vice-presidents, Lizzie
Pearl secretary, Kate Collins treasurer, and
Mertie Sturtevant and Annie FuliDgton col
| lectors.
| Thirty-four dinners served to guests last
| Monday at Robbins and no special incident
to create the crowd means not only one but
many good things in the management of our
public house That Mr. Robbins and wife are
thoroughly appreciated locally as neighbors
and citizens, and locally abroad as caterers
of appetzing food, pleasantly served and
| that about the management there is an at
mosphere of know how " favored with gen
erous adjuncts, goes without saying.
Mr.. Darius Clark whose uedUu WIS all
nOunced last week was a man deservedly re-
spected by all, whether considered as citi-
zen, Il man a christian. "none named him
but to praise As a citizen he was true TO
what he believed was for the best interest OF
town. state and nation. As a man he was
the peer of the BEST respected for his fidelity,
genial and happy in all his social relations,
and loved for his cheerful kindness. He was
of stalwart proportions, and he was every
inch man. His christianity gave strength
and influence to his citizenship and manhood
For about sixty years he had been member
of the lptist church in Johnson; the obi
cation which he took when uniting with the
church at about twenty years of age he
faithfully kept. He loved the church and
gave his time and means for its support the
Bible was his companion, and the house o
the Lord his delight; his place there was
rarely vacant. He was ever loyal to thf
truth strong in his convictions and kind in
his expressions of them. He is gone from ouI
sight. yet the influence of his life will long
continue to impress itself upon those who
knew him. This legacy of the righteous il
better than silver and gold, $
There was a sound Of revelry by night,
but your scribe feels utterly incompetent t,
fifty portray the scene when everybody witt
his wife and children" to the number of owe
one hundred, gathered t the elegant home o
our genial popular and newly-wedded towns
man, Birney 5. Fulington, on Monday even
/
our most hearty congratulations and hes
wishes for a long and happy future. In
derhill, Cambridge and Eden were all repre-
scented in the good-looking and well-dresse
crowd, which shifted and surged like the rain
J bow-hued bits of glass in KALEIDOSCOPE
through the brilliantly-lighted, tastefuy
decorated rooms, while merry chat and haI
by laughter resounded everywhere. The tabl
OF handsome wedding presents in the sitting
? room was quite centre of attraction and a
? the useful and beautiful ought always to 9
hand in hand in this world, it was quite fl
ting that the broom presented by the rOguis
young brother of the bride should stand
) friendly proximity to the glittering crysti
and silver. May it effectually sweep away u
errors from the path of the bOnny bride
Elegant refreshments profuse in quantt,
were served to the company by host of IA
p tentive walters and the festivities of the ever
, ing ended with singing by an imprompt
X chorus around the piano, with the immorti
!. Aud Lang Syne" as finale. We are SUI
that we voice the sentiments of the who
company when we tender to our hospital
entertainers this old Arabic wish May yo
live a thousand years, and your shadow new
~ grow less!" B