News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-06-15
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Mrs. Willard Gray is visiting IN Craftsbury
j. r. Hill has recently purchased McPhai
piano.
Clayton Freeman of Boston, is the guest of
b. S. Fullington.
Mrs. C. p. j. ones spent last Saturday with
friends in Cambridge.
Rev. James Barton and son are spending a
few days at his fathers.
Orange Buck spent Sunday at st. Adams.
Mrs. HartwelI is still quite i'll.
Mrs. Allen and daughter of Swanton is Wis
iting her sister, Mrs. viii Jones.
The ladies will hold their prayer meeting
with Mrs. Jane Davis Friday p. m.
Mrs. Kendall of Enosburgh Falls visited
her friend, Belle Tevyan, last week.
Children's Day will be observed at the Bap-
fist church next Sunday morning.
A large delegation of Masons attended the
grand lodge at Burlington this week
Mrs. Walter Bradley and baby are spending
a week at her former home in Sheldon.
Miss Sayton of Stowe, spent Sunday with
her friends, Misses BarrOws and Bigelow.
Clarence Smith of Winooski, is the new
wool-sorter at l. L. Pearl & CO. factory.
Geo. II. Sargent, a former Selectman, is Sc
riously sick with sore and swollen threat.
1t will soon be farmer instead of Homer
Cause, a new barn, r. B. Bradley, architect.
We are glad to report that May McClena-
than, who has been so very ill, is slowly gain
ing.
Guy Fitch had fine colt severely injured
by its coming in contact with a barbed wire
fence.
Mrs, E. p Carpenter of st. Johnsbury, is
spending few days with her sister, Mrs p.
c. Stearns.
Carroll Drown is spending his vacation at
home. lie is attending school at South Ian
caster, Mass.
The usual Alumni meeting will be held at
the close of the Normal. Full particulars will
be given next week.
Miss Blake finishes her work in the Normal
for this term, and return to her home in Mas
sachusetts this week.
Master Elmer Campbell, who has spent sev-
eral weeks at his unce's in town, returned to
his home in N. Ii. this week.
Oscar Atwood, president of Strait College,
New Orleans, is spending the summer with his
sister, Mrs. II. W. Mcfarland
Miss Blake's reading last Friday evening
was a success. The audience, both in size and
quality, very satisfactory.
Rev. Mr.. Saunders gave report of the S,
s. convention held at Rutland to the s, s. at
the Baptist church last Sunday
Alfred Fay has vacated his room in Hunts
block and now occupies the building owned
by H. H. Bradley, near town hall.
The friends OF H. II. Collins congratulate
him on his granGfatherhOOd. Kate Collins
Sunderland is the happy mother of a son.
All interested in the Baptist church are re-
quested to meet there early Thursday morn
ing and spend the day in making general i'm
prOVemeDts.
The distinction of owning the handsOmest
horse in town, which is also a good stopper,
is given to j. A. Pearl. He was brought from
North Troy last week.
Mrs. Hadeys millinery rooms will be open
Thursday and Friday, June l ) and 10, and
on the 22d and 3d. after which they will be
closed for the summer
Mr. and Mrs. Morse of West Rutland, were
at Mrs. Peck's last Friday. Mrs. Morse will
be remembered as Lucy Wells, one of the for
mer Normal graduates.
Miss Harvey gave very interesting talk at
the NJ. L. church Friday evening. The incl
dents connected with her life in India could
not fail to impress all who heard her to be
more engaged in foreign missionary work.
The advance force advertising Uncle Toms
Cabin for Thursday evening, June 18th, we're
very busy and gentlemanly appearing people.
The street parade is at IL n m. 1t is Tumor-
ed that their tent will be put up near II. A.
Watermans.
Old-timers ond young timers had very en-
joyable halliday at Mrs. Hannah Perkins
last Saturday. The occasion was the raising
of the solid frame of q large barn. An old
fashioned supper was thoroughly enjoyed by
80 men and 20 women.
Dr. John Waters made a flying visit at b.
s. Fuington's Monday. He has resigned his
position in the hospital of the Santa Fe II. X.
system, and will soon settle in Geneva, N. Y.
lie was very successful financially and pro
fessionally, in the west.
The remains of Mrs. Samuel Sargent were
brought from Lowell, Mass, to this place last
Thursday. Funeral services were held at the
residence of her daughter-in-aw, Mrs. ID. S.
Scott. Mrs Sargent's early life was spent in
this town and vicinity Devoted and warm
friends surrounded her wherever she lived and
never forgot her.
Nothing finer in tie way of Children's Sun
day exercises was ever seen in this town than
was witnessed at the Cong'l church last Sun
day evening, 1T showed skillfql, patient work
on the part of planners and teachers and the
sincere desire to do well on the part of the
scholars The contribution by the male quar-
tette would have been applauded on week
day.
Sunday nights rain brought up the water
in the Gihon considerably about nine O'clOck.
Monday morning it was higher for a few mo-
ments at the lower end of the village. Birney
FuIlington had tethered his Jersey COW on u
grass plot at the lower end of his garden. She
succeeded in tying her bind feet to her horns
and so rolled into the Branch. Birney, who
was working hard about ten rods Off dashed
down to the bank and rolled in after her, and
after q five minutes struggle he landed both
himself and cow on dry land, and the water
an hsided