News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-20
Johnson.

M RS. JOHN URlSNOLD AND L AMlL1"
JOHNSON.
F. C. Whiting is in Kansas buying horses.
Jennie Baker has returned from st. Adams.
Lizzie Pearl spent last week in Burlington.
Prof Grout left town last week for short
stay
Dr. Campbell went to Massachusetts last
Friday.
Mr.. Powell, W. H. Nye's clerk, is taking his
vacation.
Mrs R. B. Bradley visited at her fathers in
Stowe last week.
Mrs. Buffers sister and niece from st. Al
bans, are her guests.
Mrs Freeman and son of Boston, are guests
at Il. 5. Fulllngtons.
Mary Hill has finished her school in District
No and is at home.
C. H. Cristy injured his foot quite seriously
last week while haying.
Mrs Jacob Fowler of Brooklyn, N. Y, is
| visiting friends in town.
j. A Pearl was in Orleans county last week
on business and pleasure
Walter Bradley and family visited in Shell
don and Swanton last week
The Misses Robinson of Stanstead are visit
| ing their uncle, A. A. Leland.
Mrs. Bowles, and Misses Cross and Arms
are guests at II. w. Stevens.
A Sunday-school is held in District No. s.
| III. o. Stiles is superintendent
Sunday-school was organized in the Cristy
district last Sunday afternoon.
| Mrs. Orange Buck has returned from st.
! Adams. Mrs. Hartwell is better
| Miss Helen Hill of Boston, is the guest of
| her cousin, Miss Clara Campbell.
/ Dr. Campbell and family, with friends, spent
/ last Wednesday at Gilmore Pcld.
| The friends of Rev. A. A. Smith will be glad
\ to know that he is located in Barre
| Nelson Manor of Tilton, N. H., visited at
/ Charles Thomas the first of the week.
"a good man has gone" is universally the
remark of all who knew John Grswold.
| Harry and Clumie Fuington spent few
! days in Underhill and Jericho last week.
| Belle Butler has gone to New York city,
! where she has position as bookkeeper
| r. C.. Cristy, who has spent the winter in
California. returned home last Thursday.
The ladies' prayer meeting will be held at
Mrs. Davis next Friday afternoon at 2:30.
Rev. Mr.. Howard of Jacksonville, and Rev
| Mr. Donnell exchanged pulpits last Sunday.
Mrs. Hadley is spending few weeks in
| Hyde Park with her sister, Mrs. N F. Keller.
| Mr. Chaplin and family left his sisters Mrs |
o. B. Landon's, last Monday night, for their
home in Nebraska.
The Misses Chamberlain of New York, who
have been boarding at Mrs. Elwood's, have
gone to Craftsbury.
Persis and Win Landon started Monday
evening for a trip west. They will visit the
Worlds Fair before they return.
"An apt pupil under a great master " is a
fortunate condition of student life To at I
tend a great convention, prepare mastery |
and eloquent report, and deliver it so as to |
thrill and enthralI u critical audience, are
somewhat parallel conditions, and equally |
fortunate ones We thinking of the c. E. |
convention at Montreal and the report BIZ |
the Congl delegate Miss May Baker, at The
Sunday evening meeting.
Dril-master K. B. Bradley of Troop A, Seth |
G. Hill Post, by patience and persistence con- |
tributed largely to the Troops success in |
winning the prize OF $50 in gold at the late
encampment. Last week the Troop invaded |
Bradley's home and filed it. fitting speech |
was made by Capt. E. E. Holmes, SO was
dropped into the lap of the astonished host,
and an excellent and characteristic rejoinder
was made. By Il mutual and spontaneous
wish the SO soon became a casket of silver,
which, with its associations, is valued by the
receiver at ST. 900.
THE LEIGHTON REUNION,
A score of years ago seven children were left
fatherlesS in the town of WaterbuTy-five
boys and two girls, the eldest about 10 years
of age and the youngest l months. The
mother was not strong and she found it i'm
possible to keep her children together and so
they were separated. Most of them found
homes with relatives, but so far apart were
they that never from the day the father was
buried have all met
For some years they have talked of re-
union and this year of 1898 seemed q good
time. One daughters home is in Washing
ton, and one in Waterbury, this State. One
son lives in Minnesota, one in Iowa, two in
New York and one in Johnson. The one in
Iowa found it impossible to come and one in
New York did not come, -uuu tne others met
at the home of the youngest July 1lth. A
part of the number had been there for some
time waiting for May, who came across the
continent to meet her brothers and sister in
the State of their birth.
At Mother Fitchs the house was brimful of
echoing voices, as during the days of their
times of their childhood. Story after story
they told of boyish pranks The day two of
the number started a bonfire in one of the
rooms in the old home, just to see it burn
the bean planting under big stone, that
fishing trip might be taken, and the story told |
by the beans as the summer came, and many |
Others called forth merry laughter as the after
consequence was told.
An afternoon was taken for visit to the
graves OF the father and mother in the ceme-
terry at Hyde Park. A picnic at Eden Pond
and "A visit to the old home where three of the
number first saw the light took another day,
and rides in hay-carts, milk-wagons, delivery
wagons, and fun of all kinds possible was in
uuiSeu III: Even the measles c0ulu not SODef
the happy crew, though all thanked God for
the recovery of two from that disease,
Mrs, Fitch hardly knew to what name to !
respond, as mother, Aunt Melissa and grand
ma were heard many times from different
members of the party, but when large will
low rocker was presented by the assembled
Leighton childred she responded with u thank
tul heart. One of the sisters received from
her five brothers at Christmas time a gold
watch, and Leo, one of the brothers, gave to
her nice chain and to the other sister also
a gold watch and chain on this visit
All the boys are merchants but the youngest,
Guy, who is farmer
There is but one child, Willie a stirring
boy of four, but he can count for half a score
IN bright sayings and lively ways.
The weight of the entire party of nine was
1000 lbs, and it is half=ton of solid worth,
for of all the mum Der not one has ever brought
reproach upon the Leighton name. Good
honest boys and girls, and honest and true
men and women are all the seven,
This week most of the number will meet in
Waterbury, at the home of Carrie, and then
they will separate, glad to have met again,
and hoping tor another meeting at some
future day, when not one of the seven shall be
absent, but all with husbands and wives
shall be present and clasp hands in an I'M
broken circle. VINE.