News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-07-25
MORRISVlLLE.

Some people are already putting in
their winter coal.
Round trip tickets to Queen City
Park are 81 90 from Morrisville.
Walter Gilbert of St. Johnsbury is
spending a portion OF his vacation
with relatives here.
Supt. Gordon and Landlord RAN
dali were fishing in Eden Tuesday.
Besides getting fair stings of trout
they captured woodchuck
Ellis Foster expects to leave the
last of next week on q vacation trip
to New York City, by way OF Lake
George and Glenns Falls, n Y, where
he will spend few days with his
father.
Mrs. Rice of Canton, n Y, mother
of L. F. Rice, was called to town last
week by the serious illness of the in
FAINT child of Mr.. and Mrs. L. F. Rice,
and as a professional nurse soon had
the child out of its critical illness.
Mrs, Rice returned home Monday
and was accompanied by the mother
and child who will recuperate in the
balmy breezes of northern New York
until the latter part OF September.
Numerous inquiries are made as to
stage of proceedings at the new sum-
mer hotel site in Mr.. Choat's grove,
and in partial response to such it is
we'll to say, that work on the struct-
ure will be taken up and carried for
ward through the fail and winter, COM
pleting it ready for an early season
next spring. 1t was found impos-
sible to get ready for any part ofthis
season, so the work will be done more
leisurely.
E. G. DarliDg's double team ran
away last Thursday forenoon from
the Stafford wood working shop down
on Mill street. The horses with
heavy wagon attached passed up on
to Main street, up Union street, COM
ing in collision with the tool house of
the Water-work's contractor Here
the rear wheels were left and the
horses dashed out Congress street to
Main street and up to Court street,
without further damage.
The Idlewild Club have been busily
at work on the reconstruction OF
their boat house at EImore, which
was quite badly wrecked by the wind
and ice last winter. The old yacht
will probably be tOHed out into the
lake and furnish material for a rous-
ing good bonfire, thus making room
efof En1 launching and housing of the
new steam launch, which will go up
to the lake this week. The club have
had some thought of taking their
craft down to Lake Champlain by
train with a view of taking a cruise
about the lake, but such a trip will
not be undertaken at present.
The semi-annual statement of July
1, 1895, for the resources and liza
bilities of the Union Savings Bank
and Trust Company makes a most
excellent showing. The statement
shows the total resources of the bank
including loans, accrued interest,
house and lot, safe, furniture and
fixtures and cash on hand and in
other banks, to be $3.50, 959.49. The
deposits in round numbers now
amount to over $330,O0O.OO. The
undivided profits to $4,000 90. The
business of the bank is done on
strictly sound and reliable principles
and the loans are on gilt-edged sc.
curities.
The Odd Fellows lodge at Water.
bury, which entertained Hyde Park
and Morrisville Odd Fellows last
week, is but two years of age, has
sixty members, has a Rebekah lodge
and a camp in connection with it
and has recently completed a $14, OOC
block in which is located their lodge
rooms, banquet hall etc. The block
has a very attractive post-office and
a store on the first floor, and on the
second, a tasty up-to-date opera hal
neat and complete in all it's appoint
ments, and all under control of the
lodge, which is certainly to be con
graduated upon their evident pros
perity.
A corner in real estate was effected
last week by c. +. Randall who's
purchases together with his hote
property, go to cover one of the bes
and largest corner holdings in tn,
wills ge. He bought of G. X. Currie
the lot and building next west of tn
hotel, occupied by j. H. Warren
meat market, and the building
ATTACHED to it in the rear. OF C. II
Slocum he purchased the large 10
and livery barns now occupied b,
Smith & Barney. This gives clea
sweep from DR.. Holbrook's on Con
gress St., around to E. E. Foster,
place on Main St., embracing "a val
uable piece of property.
Congratulations, numerous an
most hearty, are coming to Mr.. an
Mrs. George M. Powers, now tn
happy parents of a nine-pound boy
born at O'Clock last Thursda.
morning. To say nothing about tn
difficulty G. M. has in attempting t.
smooth his face out enough for
shave, the smiles which iIumine tn
faces of the Granddaddies are quit
as large. This newly arrived heir i
now rocked in an old-fashione
cradle, now spotless in white enamt
and gilt decorations, that has com
down through the Powers famil
I'll L..