News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-26
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JOFNSON.
Fred Prindle is very sick with humps.
| Old Mrs Livermore is very ill with hear
disease.
Oscar Hayford of Perkinsvlle died suddenl!
| Tuesday afternoon.
Il Oracle Allen of No. Hyde Park, spent few
days in town last week.
Abbie Stebbins, who has spent the winter il
| Mass, returned home last week.
Vernon Patch has bought the property
now occupied by Fred Whiting.
Hopes are still entertained of Louise lie
lands recovery by her physician.
The Ladies Ways and Means Society hello
their annual meeting last Tuesday.
Arthur Hodgden has recovered from the
measles and returned to school at Morris
vile
1t may be expected that warm dinners vii
be served at one of the vestry's town meeting
day.
Arby Knowles formerly of this place, now O
Ferrisburg' spent few days in town last
week.
Andy Partlow, our esteemed young towns
man. lately removed to Lyndonville, is al
home for couple of days.
Rev. Mr.. Howard attended the quarterly
meeting at Eden last Sunday. Rev. Geo
Duel occupied the NJ. E. pulpit here.
Mrs A. H. Campbell is very sick at he1
home in Rutland. The attending physicians
are not hopeful Later-she is better.
H. H. Partlow has moved to Morrisville
DR.. Aliens father is i'll at his home in Fair
fax His son was sent for last Monday.
The sixty delegates to the Hyde Park fire
were made to feel that their zeal and sym,
Pathy were recognized and appreciated
Mrs Lyman Buck and daughter, who have
been spending the winter with relatives in
town, left for their home in the west last
Saturday.
B. L. Fullington sold last week one of the
half dozen pieces of real estate owned by HIM
in this town. The Foster place on R. X. st.
for S1100.
sister of Mrs. Nathan Mcfarland, died last
Sunday, while riding with Mr.. Thompson be-
tween Hyde Park and Johnson
Should modern Rip Van Wrinkle from out
west visit us he would hardly know the old
DR.. Chamberlain place. completely meta
morphOsed by repairs and changes, by Diana
Clement of Chicago.
The parents of pupils in the intermediate
grade especially and all Others as near as
possible, equally regret that Miss Allen de-
clines "call" for the coming term. The
peril of having a superior teacher is, that
you cant keep them.
Mrs Supt. Andrews of Vergennes, is spend
ing few days among her friends in this vii
lage Scores in the state can testify to her
painstaking devotion to the inmates of the
Reform school, and would be pleased if they
knew of the abundant welcome she received
in her old home.
The Farmers League will meet at Town
Hall Friday, Feb 81, at 1:30 p m. Topics
of general interest to farmers will be discuss.
| ed. We hope all those interested in the Farm
er's League will be present. Com.
When n P. Banks in the fifties, seemed tc
| be drawing dangerously near the upper
rungs of the political ladder, rival Demo
cratic office-seeker flung at him this pen and
| ink grenade: He never said a wise thing,
nor did a foolish one" This epigram in its
| first half is misfit for the leading parsonage
| named below, so like a tailor who fixes a
coat too long in the neck and too short in
the sleeves, will change it. He never
| launched an ill-tmed witticism, one with
| a barb or a sting in it, nor said foolish
! thing" Reinforced by their daughter, Miss
| Louise, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Stevens gave
q reception last Friday evening, which was a
twin to the one given three weeks before by
Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Fullington. In the flexible
| imaginations of the 'fold timers " was any.
one there except the ITO, who left at eleven
under beavers and bonnets? Was there other
| sounds than those of music, laughter and re
| partee? Was there an indescribable some
| thing in all the well-filled rooms, more inspir
! ing than song or wit, or spoken eloquence
''rarer than odors sweet from roses blown" !
| Were there 'stars and harmonies" felt, seen
and heard by all of Henrys gray or bald con
| temporaries? Let us see. Thirty years ago
when the host drove his four-horse cracker
and candy prairie schoonerinto forty villages
in northern Vermont, was any boy denied
the felicity of driving four-in-hand from store
to store? Were not kind words and rare
smiles thrown in to boot? From those days
to these days not few dealers in Mr.. S. S cir
cult, on the first trip from Jerusalem to
Jericho" from various causes, lost ALL and
| left the highway with Gaping wounds. TIC
such, in car and street, hotel and Office, in
tactful ways, has not Mr.. Stevens given the
soil of Joy for the spirit of heaviness'? Has
not he been to those and burdened Others, g
progressive new edition of the " Good Samar
itan'? So Friday night, at the reception
| there were praises bestowed that did not fine
voice; unseen forms and faces. twice 40
! friends of the host, " fastened by hooks OF
steel" Were Others reminded of the words Of
Starr King, "There are things more potent
than material forces"