News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-08-01
HYDE PARK.

VIM. Page and wife of Hardwck
were in town short time Monday.
Miss Anna Gilmore is spending
few days with friendsin Cambridge.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. Leach were in
st. Adams recently visiting relatives.
S. C. Noble and wife of st. Adams
were visitors in town the past week.
A. V. Wiswell and wife spent Sun
day with friends at East Hardwick.
A children's meeting will be held at
the vestry Saturday afternoon at 2
o'clock.
Mrs. John Mudgett, who resides
with her daughter, Mrs. j. s. Waite,
is quite ILL.,.
Mrs. j. A. Hulburd was in town
last week visiting at the States
Attorneys.
A handsome Estey organ has just
been placed in Judge Whites resi-
dence on trial.
Mrs. Merrill Hervey and two sons
from Dorchester, Mass, are stopping
at Capt. Slayton's.
The commissioners on the John
Cobleigh estate inventoried the prop
erty last Saturday.
Most of the farmers hereabouts
have finished haying, and nearly all
report good crop.
Mrs. Hattie (Doty) Dexter and
daughter of Milwaukee, Wis, are
visiting at Fl. D. W. Doty's.
Apa1ty ofyoung people, chaperoned
by Mrs. c. S. Page, spent Tuesday
and Wednesday at Elmore Pond.
Mrs. Bailey and son Ned of Mont
pelier were guests at Mrs. A. L.
Noyes' the latter part of the week.
Misses Harmon and Yarrow will
hold a meeting in the school-house at
Battle Row Observation-Disclosures
ming.
The annual Methodist campm ct
ing commences next Monday, with
the usual reduction in fares on the
railroad.
We want six or eight copies of the
News AND CITIZEN of July 25. Bring
them quick to this Office and get pay
for them.
Ed. Stevens and F. r. Child were in
Greensboro Monday to pick out and
purchase the poles for the electric
wires here.
Montpelier, Burlington and st. AL
bans were each visited last week by
Hyde Parkites anxioust to witness the
Wild West show.
States Atty Hulburd, accompa-
MED by his wife, spent several days
in st. Adams the past week. Busi-
ness and "Bufalo Bill" were the at
fractions that turned "Rog" in that
direction.
The rain of Saturday night fresh
ened up nature wonderfully, making
Sunday one of the pleasantest days
of the season. The air was cool and
invigorating and the fields and
mountains never looked finer.
The village trustees, with a few
other interested parties, took trip
to Johnson one evening last week to
view the electric plant and size up the
lghts-both outside and inside. All
we're much taken with the working of
the system.
On the I'd page of this issue may
be found an entertaining account of
the origin of the great Chicago fire
together with some other interest
ing circumstances connected with the
same-handed us by Judge Sherwin,
which is worthy of perusal.
Lost, strayed or stolen !-One E. II.
Kinds, formerly of Hardwick. He dis
appeared recently, but left behind a
board bill and livery account. He
will also be held in remembrance by
several of whom he borrowed small
sums just for "a few days"
The Misses Beede, who have been
visiting their aunt, Mrs. T. W. Hyde,
left for Montpelier last Thursday and
after a few days sojourn there, they
will 90 to the White Mountains and
thence to their home in st. Joseph,
Mo. This was the young ladies' first
visit to Vermont and of course they
were delighted with the Green Noun
tain State.
The annual picnic of Union Sunday
school will be held this week Friday
at Zack Woods Pond, q distance of
some six miles from here. Arrange
ments have been made to have boats
on the pond that day, and Col,
Sawyer has kindly granted the use of
the grounds for the occasion. All
who contemplate going are asked to
assemble at the church at sharp s
o'clock Friday morning. Convey
ances will be furnished to carry schol-
ars not otherwise provided for. All
invited.
1t has been suggested that the
snow fence on Depot street be re-
moved. AS it now is the snow sim
ply rolls up over the fence, dropping
on the sidewalk and leaving the hill
so destitute of snow that it is the
first spot bare in the spring. An or
binary fence would be much better,
letting the road proper get q few
inches more of snow, while the side
walk needn't be buried under from
ten to fifteen feet of snow late in the