News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-02-16
HYDE PARK
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Banjo Club concert next Wednesday
evening.
Miss Carrie Cobb of Wells River is
stopping in town with her sister, Mrs
G. w. Brown.
Mrs. S. J. Nichols. of Braintree, is
spending few days with her niece
Mrs. A. J. Sackett.
The Town Auditors will meet al
the Town Clerks office Monday, Feb
20, at 10 o'clock a. IN.
Mrs. W. Ell. FL. Kenfeld has re
turned from Craftsbury and is now
stopping at the Phoenix.
DR.. E. B. johnson, of the we'll
known Henry. Johnson & Lord drug
firm of Burlington, was in towr
Monday.
Louie C. Strong, who has been very
i'll for the past five weeks, is now
slowly, yet we hope surely, on the
road to recovery.
Geo. D. Sherwin of Burlington was
in town the past week, wiring Gov
Pages house, preparatory to put
ting in the electric work.
Rev. A. E. Winship left immediate
ly after his lecture Saturday evening
for Waterbury, where he took the
midnight train for Boston.
Gov. Page contemplates putting in
at the hide-house some machinery
for the purpose of doing a part Of
the work now performed by hand.
Owing to the entertainment by the
Z. V. M. Glee Club next Wednesday
evening, the lecture by Mr.. Max Pow.
ell, of Burlington, is put off until
some future time.
The marriage of Lena Currier and
Frank Sargent is announced. The
event came off at the Valley House
No. Hyde Park. last week, and was
performed by Rev. Mr.. lockwood.
Sheriff Stevens has increased his
list of Deputies by appointing Ed
Mann of Waterville. The selection is
a good one and with a little training
Ed. will be we'll fitted to take the pc
sition of High Sheriff.
A gang of plumbers and steam-fit
tiers from A. B. Noyes & Co., of st
Johnsbury, are here to complete 6
job of work for II. NJ. Mcfarland
and also to do some other jobs
They are gentlemanly crew.
The Academy mid-winter exhibi
ton comes off Friday evening o
this week. An excellent program has
been prepared and we can assure al
that the entertainment will be a very
interesting one. Admission, Is cts.
proceeds for benefit of the institu
ton.
If everybody's door-yard is not {
blooming flower garden" next sum
mer it will not be the fault of Con
gresham Powers. He has remem
bered almost every lady in the plac
with a nice package of government
flower seeds. In their behalf we eX
tend thanks to our worthy Con
gresham.
County Clerk Waite has receives
notice from the Supreme Court tina
in the case S. B. Waite, Collector, VS.
The Hyde Park Lumber Company
involving the validity of certain
taxes; and the right of the town t.
County Court, giving judnman+ =,
the defendants, is affirmed.
Parson TayIor's method of twin,
matrimonial knots is evidently be
coming quite popular. We recor
this week another event of tina
kind, which occurred Tuesday even
ing, at the parsonage, the contract
ing parties being w. H. Mack, O
Hardwick, and Miss Ella Heath, O
this town. The young lady ha
many friends here who trust that he
new life may be full of Joy and hap
piness.
The town of Cambridge will hav
an article in it's warning to see
that town will make arrangements t.
enter the Morristown-Stowe-J ohnsol
poor farm combination. These tire
towns certainly have the correct wa.
of taking care of their poor, and a
they do it at a low figure it is no
surprising that other towns ar
anxious to join this syndicate. Pei
haps this town might do well to con
slider this arrangement,
As the sea ting capacity of the Tow
, Hall is limited, it will be well 70
those who do not hold season ticket
to secure their seats for the concer
next Wednesday evening at the post
office at once. Orders by mail o
telephone will receive prompt atten
ton. This will be one of the best en-
tertainmpnts ever given in this vicin
ity and it will call out a packeC
house. Admission, % cents.
Who will be Road Commissioner
or rather who will take the job, i
the question just now. We hear O
no one who is anxious for it, but sew
eral names are suggested, among
them being C. NJ. Strong and Sila
Whitcomb. Both of these men hav
had considerable experience in road
building and the management O
highways. The town would be wei
served in the selection of either
There is at least one office TO
which q new man will have to b
selected at the coming town meeting
and that is first Selectmap--the pres
ent occupant, John Kelley, having
moved to Albany. This is the frs
time in many years, if ever before
that an office-holder has moved ou
of town; they always stay as Ions
as they can hold on to the office
But John "isn't built that way.
We are sorry to have him leave anC
hope we may see him in these part
frequently.
The lecture last Saturday evening
by Rev. A. E. Winship of Boston, OIL
"The Young Man of Tomorrow,
was brilliant from beginning to end
Americas future depends upon tn
young men, in whom the speaker haC
great confidence, and who, he believed
would successfully grapple with TIN
great questions so soon to come be
fore them. To the young men o
pluck and go=aheaditiVeness hespok'
encouragingly, urging them to maxi
the best of their surroundings. Thu
lecture was full of good advice anC
bristled with splendid points. Ever,
young man who heard it, and in fac
all others, must derive some gooC
from it. Mr.. Winship is fluent anC
pleasing speaker. We hope he ma,
again appear before a Hyde Parl
audience.
The fifth and last entertainment il
the Hyde Park Lecture Course TO
this season comes off next Wednes
day evening and will be a concert b.
the U. V. M. Banjo and Glee Clul
quartets. Wherever these clubs
have appeared they have given first