News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-05-04


j, opening Friday and Saturday o.
: this week, to which the ladies of this
, town and vicinity are cordially in.
yited.
An entertainments, consisting of a
musical and literary pros ram, par.
ticipated in by local talent, is to be
at town hall on Friday evening oil
this week. A small admission will
l be charged for the benefit of the
Academy ball team. A promenade
will follow.
One of the acts of the last Logis-
lature provides that during 1898
and in every third year thereafter,
the trustees of savings banks and
other institutions of saving, shall
call in the books of deposit of their
depOsitors, for examination and YER
ificatiOn by some person other than
the treasurer of his clerks The
books of the Union Savings Bank are
verified by C. S. Noyes, who is at the
bank Wednesday and Saturday af-
ternoons for that purpose.
And still another change in bust
ness is to be made c. H. Slocum,
for eleven years one of Morrisville's
most substantial dealers, is selling
out his business to L. B. BoyntOn.
Mr.. Slocum drops the retail business,
but will remain here and continue to
handle butter, eggs and sugar, with
an office in the same place as now
Mr.. BOyntOn has returned from the
south and will continue the same
line of trade as carried by Mr.. SlO-
cum. He brought with him a large
stock of boots and shoes, which
line will be a special feature of his
stock.
The following were among those
were at The Randall yesterday and
day before Hon. Frank Plumley,
Mortified, H. W. Stevens, Johnson,
]. T. Flanders, Montpelier, B. j. Dill
lingham, Moscow, E. F. Burdick,
New York, H. j. Colby, Burlington,
Geo. A. Riley, N. H., Charles Hall,
Winchester, Mass. L. 0. Stocker,
Boston, W. S. Bailey, Hardwick, A,
W. Livingston, Swanton, A. R. Reed,
Boston, T. D. Fisk, Utica, n Y, g.
A. Hall, Boston, j. 2. LamsOn, Cab
OF, E. L. Prouty, Boston. B. Dag
gett. Bristol, A. H. SERVER, Burling-
ton, C. H. Wallace, Cambridge.
The Gentlemen's Aid" of the Uni
versalist Society and their friends
will hold "circle" in the Matthews
block on Portland Street Saturday
afternoon and evening of this week.
The usual Git may bean unusuaD pic
J. h. =
o'clock. There will be an abundance
of ice-cream and cake to be had for
consideration. The ladies have long
had a monopoly of circle affairs, but
the men now propose to try their
hands at entertaining by feeding.
Everybody and his family and his
"best friend" invited. The ladies
are sure to be there. Come and see
them eat.
The sad end has come; that which
to human eye seemed SO full of prom
Use for the future is now no more; its
work here is done, its possible mis-
sion ended, and who shall speak but
words of regret as we look upon the
sad wreck of what might have been ?
With an existence short in mere
count of days, it has nevertheless
done something for the cause or pro-
gress and the popular benefit of the
community in which it has been al
lowed an untimely death and quite
unrecogniZed by some. The immedi
ate friends lowered about it and with
bated breath hoped for new signs
of life and activity, but all to
no purpose. The disease was a fixed
thing and the doctors were perplexed
and the family circle tried hard to
study out what might be the possible
remedy for the poor thing that suffer-
ed so much from neglect, non-sup-
port, ridicule, no interest, no push
and do-nothing-tiveness, any one of
which was a disease able to crush
out it's frail life. The doctors sug-
gested making things easier by re-
ducing the fee for their prescriptions
but none outside the family circle
would ever pay that: Others proposed
advertising for more nurses to make
possible d further existence, but
twas no use; the feeble existence, baf-
fled in it's ambition in life, starving
for proper nourishment, fiickered out
with but few willing even to watch its
last spasmodic efforts. There are
many achievements recorded to it's
credit, but few however had any
faith in it; this of itself was enough
to discourage the patient. The estate
will be settled by the immediate rela-
tives or friends-who will proceed to
demoralize the surplus by advertising
to the world, in a judicious manner,
that MOrrisville is still in this quar-
ter of the globe and that some few of
it's people are still anxious to i'm
prove and enlarge her possibilities
for the future; but, for now at least,
the life of Morrisville's Improvement
Association, it's Board of Trade under
another name, has got up and dust
ed. In other words, the thing is bust
ed; take it up tenderly, hist it with
care; started out so beautifully,
gone, no one knows where. Q
MORRIsvILLE. Vt,
Sunday, April 30, '93.
Mr.. EditOr:-
The old town clock had struck
twelve, and, as some of our people
were going home from church, sud
denly an apparent hrilliancy appear
ed from AIN easterly direction; but
when contemplated more closely,
imagine the aversion of our ladies,
who were confronted by a full-grown,
male person riding upon a bicycle.
The ladies filed into line, while the
brave bicyclist pushed malestically
onward, meeting Others, who were
obliged to get out of the way or suf-
fer consequential and consummate
disaster.
Common sense is one of the richest
blessings vOuchsafed to humanity
and although a new bicycle may at
ford much pleasure to it's owner, it
requires some development of intel
lectual capacity to successfully enjoy
their use, without a continual in.
: tringement upon the rights of other
who are continually perambulatine
our sidewalks. The use of the bicycle