News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-04-27
AXnE RARK-

V. A. Gilmore lost a good COW last
week - L1l-3
Geo. Parker has gone toMontpelier
to work.
Three more weeks of school at the
Academy. ,
House-cleaning, with all that the
word implies, is near at hand.
Chas Cramer and family returned
to their home in Boston Monday.
A few sunshiny days and the trail
ing arbutus hunters will take to the
woods.
Louie Strong's many friends are
pleased to see him on the streets
again.
Hiram Bishop, who has been con-
fined to the house several weeks by
illness, is now on the gain.
c. H. Crane moved into his hand
some suite of rooms over his store
last week and the latch-string" is
now out.
j. Willis Sherwin and son of Chico
pee, Mass, are in town for a few days,
called here by the death of g. NJ
Sherwin.
Child & Waite lost horse last
Monday. Too much clean" upon
it is said to have been the cause
of its demise.
Hon. Horace Waite, who has been
spending the winter in Maine with
his daughter, Mrs. Abbott, returned
home last week.
Rev. Mr. Donpell, of Johns ION,
preached here last Sunday, in eX-
change with Rev. Mr.. Taylor, giving
a very interesting sermon.
Now slick up the door-yard and
cart off last winters debris; not
only will the premises look better,
but the sanitary condition of your
home be improved.
An apple, which had lain out of
doors all winter and yet did not
freeze, was picked up by a resident
of Church street Monday. 1t was
quite sound and of IA good favor
The record for April may be sum-
med up as cold and windy with an
with an occasional warm day in be
tween. The season is from two 30
three weeks behind last year
Schools, with one or two excep-
tions, in this town will begin next
Monday. Grace Noyes will teach at
Centreville. Myra Keller in Wiswell
District. Fannie Calkins at Battle
Row, Wilma Leach in Edgar Noyes'
District, Bertha Minor on Mckinstry
Hill, Katie NewComh in Albert Whit |
combs District, a Miss Douglass in
Garfield District, Mrs. J.. c. Bean in
Bundy District, Miss Warren in
Greenfield District, Miss -GriswOld |
in R. C. Barnes District North |
Hyde Park District not reported.
Upon invitation we accompanied
the postmaster and the village pap
son to H. F. Putnam's sugar place
last Thursday afternoon and par
took of sugar fresh from the pan"
The contest between the trio as to |
who could dispose of the largest |
amount of saccharine was somewhat |
interesting, but as our climate mod |
esty' kept US from entering very
earnestly into the race the struggle |
was really between the p. NJ. and the |
dominee. For awhile it looked |
as though the parsOn would be
the victor, but the p. Ms experience
in licking postage-stamps the past
four years was to his advantage and |
showed that his sticking qualities
were the greatest. He distanced all
competitors WITHOUT much of an
effort Not only were many pounds
of No. l sugar disposed of, but a
large number ofdoughnuts, such as no
one but Mrs. Putnam knows how to
make. disappeared without much cere-
monY. Nearly a hundred have visit
ed "Roh's" camp this spring, and if
the appetites of all have been equal
to that of the last party, many
POUNDS of sugar will fail to be in
spected by the weigher Mr., and Mrs.
Putnam have happy faculty of en-
visitors and it Is no won
der that the Knickerbocker Camp
Is visited annually by nearly every
body within a radius of many miles.