News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-10-04
STOWE.
See Mrs. Jenney's business notice.

Edwin Bigelow is attending the U. V. NJ.
Mrs. B. E. Stockwell is quite i'll with typhoid
fever.
V. A. Billiard of Underhill was in town over
Sunday.
Nellie Mum is at home from Saranac, MY,
on a two weeks vacation.
Mrs W. A. Tinkham and childle en- are visit
ing relatives in Rochester.
X. W. Hulburd of Hyde Park was looking
over Stowe one day last week.
After nearly six weeks of confinement, G. j.
Shepard is again on the street.
The Burt Bros. are extending their water
main through School and Back streets.
A birthday surprise party was held at Mrs.
C. l.. McMahon's last Saturday afternoon.
G. A. Lamson and Walter Benson started
late Saturday night tor a business trip to
Boston.
Miss Anna c. Bracket and her retinue of
servants returned to her New York home last
Wednesday.
Mrs. Pottle has reopened her millinery room
at the head of Main street. See business no.
tice this week.
Frank Rock has returned from a trip to
Ireland where he has been on q visit to rela-
tives and friends
Prin. C. L. Perver, and Miss Haley of the
intermediate department, visited their homes
during the Saturday vacation.
The many friends of Gov. Bingham were
pleased to see him taking the air, on the YER
anda Of his house last Saturday.
Several of our young men took trip over
the new road leading through the Notch"
one day last week, AID report the road in fine
condition.
A term of singing school to be taught by
Prot, A. H. Cheney will begin Friday evening,
! Oct. s. at town hall A large attendance is
hoped for
The Summit House on Mt. Mansfield closes
this week. after very prosperous season.
Mine Host Churchill has proved himself very
popular landlord and has gained many warm
| friends during the past two seasons.
Rev. J. j. Lewis of Boston will give his illus
| trated lecture on the Passion Play at Unity
church Oct. 9th. The lecture will be free, but
all who desire will have the privilege of con-
| tributing, as a silver collection will be taken.
Postmaster Luce is now on trip to Cuba,
to which place he has gone for the benefit of
his health, accompanied by o. NJ. Waterman
of Morrisville. 1t is suggested that the recent
elections may have had something to do with
the ttate of Mr.. Luces health.
The village school is in a very Furnishing
condition, having an attendance of l > schol-
ars, in all departments. Some improvements
| have been made this season, among which is
| the building of q new recitation room, and
supplying the building with running water.
Several Stowe people are taking in the ex-
cursion to New York this week, among them
being Blanche Atwood Mrs. Sarah Raymond
Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. Adams, Dan Moody,
Frank Smith, H. Mayo, L. A. Pike, and also
Mrs. M. A. Jenney, who goes to purchase mil
linery goods.
| UNION OF CAMBRIDGE AND STOWE.
In accordance with The notice in the last
issue of the News AND CITIZEN the inhabitants
of Stowe and Cambridge assembled on the
Doth of last month in what is commonly
! known as "Smuggler's Notch" for the pur-
pose of celebrating the opening of the road
| that has been recently built the Notch by
said towns, so that from Jacksonville
through the deep gorge of Mt. Mansfield to
s owe is distance of about fourteen miles
| While the selectmen OF the two towns had
general supervision, the builders of this new
highwaywere Merritt Wilson on the Camb bridge
| de, and M. A. Chaffee and A. F. Harlow on
the Stowe side. Good judges claim the work
was well done, and although some changes
| may have to be made in the future all seem
to rejoice over this oLening and good social
time was had by all.
In point of weather a more glorious day
| could not have been selected than the 29th
proved to be. There was little il any dust,
and old Sol seemed to send down his most
friendly rays, as if Turing the people Of both
towns to the place appointed for the celebra-
| ton. At an early hour teams began to ar
rive and although the crowd was not fed by
five loayes and two fishes, " yet judging from
| the number and size of the lunch baskets and
| boxes on every hand, it seemed as though
the wants of the inner man would be amply
met, while all who have ever visited this
spot know that colder, purer water was
never quaffed than that which gushed forth
| in abundance from rock near by.
About midday little groups might be seen
scattered here and there in the many coy
hooks and romantic spots to be found on
every side, disposing of the contents of their
lunch baskets in such manner as their fancy
dictated. A little later in the day strains OF
music from the Cam bridge band quickly call
ed the crowd together in the shadow of q
friendly rock, where attorney Leonard s.
| Thompson, in the name of the citizens oil
Stowe, extended hearty greeting to those
of Cambridge, this being followed with an
| appropriate response by Ira Powell of the
latter place. The crowd then awoke the echoes
of the surrounding woods and hills with the
| strains of "Nearear my God, to thee" and
the band played some national airs dear to
| every loyal heart, well earning the hearty
| vote of thanks given them at the close of the
exercises, as a small indication of the hearty
good will and appreciation intended to be
conveyed to them for the large share they
had contributed toward the enjoyment of all
present. 1t was estimated that from two
hundred and fifty to three hundred people
were present
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