News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-05-11
HYDE PARK,

HYDE PARhI
! Landlord Keller went to St
Johnsbury Tuesday.
H. A. Noyes, of the I. V. NJ, was
in town over Sunday.
The new drug store was opened
to the public Tuesday.
NJ. B. Eaton has moved into Widow
: Halls house, on Eden street.
r. w. Hulburd is to deliver the adj
dress at Wolcott Decoration Day.
Mrs. Eos ter randall las returned
from a few weeks absence at Centre
vile.
E. H. Farr, of the .. V. NJ, brother
of Principal Farr, was in town last
Friday.
The Selectmen commenced meas
uring the highways of the town
Tuesday.
H. C. Lanpher has moved to the
house he recently purchased on Ell
linwood Avenue.
The steam-mill was shut down last
week for lack of orders, but started
up again Monday morning.
James Lucas, Jr., of Montpelier,
has been in town a few days the past
week on IA visit to his parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. s. Leach went to
Fletcher last Saturday to attend
the funeral of Mrs. j. B. Leach.
Fred Lilley, accompanied by Homer
Lanpher, went last week to Barre
on business, returning Sunday.
G. S. Page wants few more good
men in his hide-house See adyer-
tisement among business notices.
On Thursday and Friday of last
week the water in the Lamoille was
the highest it has been this spring.
Mrs. Spiller, of Morrisville, is
keeping house for her sister Mrs.
S. b. Waite, who is at the Worlds
Fair.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. F. Kelley are Wis
iting in town, ere leaving for Rich
ford, which is to be their future
home.
Any one wanting horses or cattle
pastured will do well to see B. J.
Taylor, of Garfield, before looking
elsewhere See business notices.
: change in the time table on the
Boston & Maine goes into effect next
| Monday, by which the moring mail
will arrive about two hours later.
The Sunday evening meetings at
| the vestry now commence at 7:30
O'Clock. They are well attended
and considerab BILE interest manifested.
Frank Rooney is home from ST.
! Adams for the week, on a visit to his
parents. He returns Saturday, and
will work at his trade there this
season.
Some of our farmers are consoling
themselves in the belief that the
grass crop will be greatly benefited
by the wet, cold, damp weather of
last week.
Messrs. Hayes and Loverin, from
Montpelier, inspectors for the Yer
mont Mutual Insurance Company,
were in town and vicinity a few days
last week.
On Saturday last the Selectmen
appointed II. C. Lanpher and S. W.
Kinds, truant officers, and E. B.
Sawyer, fish warden, for this town
the coming year.
F. L. Slayton has rented his house
to Vernon Blodgett of Stowe, and
Mr.. Blodgett took possession last
Monday. Mr.. Slayton has moved
to the Crane house.
In our report of the Rocks Kelley
case last week, we made a slight mis-
take as to the total amount Of the
fine and costs. 1t should have been
$419.71, instead of 1925, as re-
ported.
1t is quietly whispered that ere this
issue shall reach many of it's readers,
Miss Jessie Wright, eldest daughter
of V. R. Wright, of this place, and
Al Grant, of Morristown, will have
assumed the nuptials.
A service of the Episcopal church
will be held in the Cong'l church here
on Sunday evening, May IA, by the
Rev. VIM. j. Harris, d. D., General
Missionary of the Diocese of Vermont.
All are cordially invited.
F. A. Folger, Superintendent of
the Kingston 4 Pembroke railroad, !
who with his wife and daughter and
Miss Maud Walsh have been spend
ing several days with Dr. Genge's |
family, returned to their home i'll
Kingston, Ont, Saturday.
The editor, accompanied by Mr.
and Mrs. H. NJ Mcfarland, Mr.. and |
Mrs S. B. Waite, and Russell Page, |
I'd, left Saturday for the Worlds |
Fair at Chicago. They joined the
press excursion at St. Adams, which |
left that point Saturday evening,
and expect to be absent a few weeks. |
The committee appointed by |
school district No. II to settle the |
matter of taxes against the Hyde |
Park Lumber Company have per-
formed their duty and the same was
compromised by the Lumber Co.
paying one-half the tax and interest
thereon.
Communion services were held at |
Union church last Sabbath, when
Mr. and Mrs. Boomhower, from the
Methodist church in Eden, and Miss
Bertha Minor, from the CongreGa-
tional church in Eden, were admitted
by letter as members of the Second
Congregational church.
J. F. Kelley has traded his proper
ty here for the American House, at |
Richford, with Bliss & Jones, of Brad
ford, and will take the personal
management of the house in about
two weeks. There are few better
hotel men in New England than Mr..
Kelley and the American House has
fallen into good hands. Fred Kelley,
son of the proprietor, who is very
popular among the travelling public,
will act as clerk, and under the man.
agement we bespedk for the house a
success it heretofore has not enjoyed.
Richford is to be congratulated.
Ex-Gov. Page has started in
again on the further enlargement of
his hide-house. Last season he
made quite an extensive addition,
but no one expected then that he
had got through, for since he built
his new hide-house, in 1880, there
has been only one year that he has
not enlarged. The extreme length
of his "skinnery" when he gets
through this spring will be 34S feet.
This time the enlargement is made
to enable him to put in an engine
and one of Vaughan's patent flesh
ing machines. He contemplates the
installation of an electric light
plant to supply our village, and in