News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-04-14
HYDE PARK.

faSt Day services friday az Ii
o'clock
The Town clerk has issued 81 dog
licenses thus far-about the same
number as lastSyear,
Annie Gauthier, who is attending
st. Joseph's S school in Burlington, is
at home on atwo weeks vacation.
Many will regret to learn of the
serious illness of Hiram D. Kellogg.
who is very low with congestion of
the brain.
Miss Grace Wright had the misfor-
tune to sprain her left ankle last
week, and as a result is now confined
to the house.
The jury calendar for the coming
term of court contains sixteen cases;
but it is uncertain whether any of
them will go to trial
Mrs. A. B. Noyes and children from
Sc. Johnsbury spent several days in
town last week, visiting cher sisters,
her cousins and her aunts."
Ground was broken Monday for
the first of the several cellars which
are to be built for the several houses
that are to be moved this spring.
Rev. f. C. Taylor has rented apart
ments in the west end ofthe "Alham.
bra and will occupy the same until
the parsonage is ready for him.
One of the many big maps which
Judge Powers is distributing among
his constituents has found place on
the walls of the reading room of the
Phoenix.
"Dea" Wright has returned from
| his winters sojourn in the lumber
camp at Eden, and in a few weeks
will resume his old place on the cream
cry wagon.
Postmaster Hulburd has recently
placed fifteen additional lock-boxes
in the post-office, which viii in a
measure satisfy the increasing de-
mand for boxes.
A paper from Glendale, Dakota,
announces that Sam'l Mecham has
sold out his hotel at that place for
the sum of $4,000. Mr.. Mecham
went west in 1882 and Judging from
this sale, he has made something
there.
The demand for tenement houses is
on the increase. Every nook and
corner in the village is occupied and
many are turned away for want
of places to reside What this place
needs, and right away, is more dwell
lighthouses.
Aunt Mary" Sawyer sustained q
fall last week which was at first
thought to be very serious. She in
iured a limb quite badly and was
considerably famed, but is now much
better and indications point to ulti-
mate recovery.
The mileage tickets on the Mont
pelier & Wells River railroad are
now, like those of the Boston &
Maine, and Central Vermont, trans
ferable; but the public is still wait
ing for transferable mileages on the
st. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain
road.
Mrs. M. E. Bell spoke at the church
last Sunday in the interest of the
Vermont Mercy Home" an institu-
ton which it is proposed to establish
| III blilo oIClbC III HOllCli.
The cause is a worthy one and should
receive encouragement in the way OF
contributions from all.
1t is hoped that the railroad Off
Gals will not overlook the dilapi-
dated condition of the waiting-room
at this depot. That it needs repairs
and a liberal outlay of soap" all
will admit. A lady waiting for the
train last week preferred sitting on
a box on the platform to a seat
within.
The case Of State VS. Henry Stow.
ell, charged with stealing a sum OF
money, belonging to Lot and Lee
Emerson, from the house of Mial En-.
erson last fall, was finished last
! Thursday and resulted in an acquit-
: tai of the respondent. There were q
{ large number of witnesses examined
, and several days were used in trying
the case. Public opinion seems tC
agree with the decision reached by
2 the court.
: A. M. Goodrich, an old resident o.
this town, dropped dead in his sugar
5 place on Hyde Park Plains last Sun
: day. He had been in poor health fol
some time but was able to be about
] Heart disease was the cause. HI
] was about rs years old and leaves &
: wife and seven children, ali of whom
: we believe, with the exception of two
sons living in Montpelier, reside il
this town. The funeral took plac,
: Wednesday, Rev. Mr.. Taylor offici
: ating.
D We are in receipt of Topeka anC
!, Lawrence, Kansas, papers referring
e to the death, at Topeka, of the wifi
s and daughter of Nelson l.. Flintom
J. who was for some time a resident o
i this town. Those who knew Mrs
+ Flinton here, remember her as q kind
s hearted, accommodating neighbor
q one who was always ready to lend {
@ helping hand whenever any one il
e the neighborhood was sick or il
n trouble. The daughter died of con
e sumption; the mother of neuralgi;
q of the stomach. Mrs. FIintom W.