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


days of last week in Burlington visit
ing friends and taking in the Wild
West.
Miss Sadie james goes Thursday to
Fred Chase's summer hotel at Loon
Lake, n. Y. where she will do din
ingroom work.
T. John and Clarence Moulton, with
their horses, are at the Whitefeld, N.
H., races this week, and will go from
there to Littleton.
Montpelier crackers are the favor
ties here-judging from the number
of orders Stevens took while here to-
day. They are fine crackers, sure.
Mr.. George S. Hall of LyndonviIle,
formerly of Massachusetts, has been
, in town the past week for the purpose
of organizing a local council of the
A, P. A.
Lamoille Grange met on Thursday
afternoon in the Cong'l vestry,
good number being present. The
next meeting will be held on Thurs
day August 8.
Henry Campbell like many another
attendant of the Wild West Show,
suffered the loss of his pocket book,
containing something like ten dol
lars, while at Montpelier on Wednes-
day.
Miss Mary Gleed, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Willis Gleed of Topeka,
Kansas, celebrated her eighth birth
day and entertained eight of her
young acquaintance here on Satur-
day afternoon.
Miss Lillian Palmer and Raymond
Palmer of Mystic, Quebec, sister and
brother of Bloomfield Palmer, the
Tightening operator at the station,
have been spending the past three or
-four days in town.
Last week proved just moderate
summer weather. Until Saturday
there was scarcely any rain, the
highest temperature was SO, and
450 the lowest Not so per cent, of
sunshine prevailed,
Mrs. D. A. Gilbert, who has been in
Boston and vicinity since the Chris
tian Endeavor convention, is expected
to return this evening, accompanied
by her daughter Katie, who has a
position in Taunton, Mass.
Mrs. Frank Kenfeld left for
Boston, Saturday, where she was
met by the Captain, who went to
Boston with stock Friday morning.
They will spend some time in Boston
and vicinity and at Old Orchard
beach, Maine.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chambers and Mr..
and Mrs. F. F. Learned of Provi-
denCe, R. l., arrived at the Randall
last Thursday evening and will stop
for time in this best portion of Yer
mont, with which so many Provi-
dence people are. becoming familiar
In the 1926 class race at Nashua,
N. H, last Wednesday, Clarence
. Nloulton drove "Mamie o." to second
position and money in a field of eight
starters. In the 2;23 class, the
horse "Gov. Hendee," formerly in
John Utton's stables, Won second
money the same day.
Strayed from their homes Wednes-
day morning, two well-kDown Port
land street merchants-one tall, and
extra good looking, the other fat,
short and still better looking. Any
one getting trace of the aforesaid
gentlemen will please report to their
widowed wives, who are now reioiC-
ing in consequence.
When you go to shipping, Morris
town or Morrisville hogs by the two
or three car load lots as Capt. Kenfeld
did last Friday, it would seem as
though the community would soon
be devoid of squalling propensites.
Happily the shipment was entirely
confined to the four legged variety
of hogs, for of course we have none
of the other sort on hand.
H. E. Whtcomb went to Johnson
last Monday morning to begin his
duties as foreman in charge of the
construction of the new school-house,
to be erected there. Mr.. Charles Hay
ford being the contractor. Mr.. Whit
comb goes on to any job he under
takes without great deal of "fuss
or feathers" but he is a faithful,
competent workman, and keeps
things on the hustle.
Water in the river is very low in
deed, but does not visibly effect the
power at the electric light station,
and if it is all smooth sailing with
the water in its present condition it
is safe to say that our power station
is sure never to run dry, so the
prophets who foretold dismal failure
in this line from the very first must
turn their prophetic vision in some
other direction. The volume of water
is noticeably less Sunday nights, be-
cause of the closing down of mills up
the stream. Work at the Fibre board
factory is frequently interrupted by
the low water.
A visit to the site Of the new reser-
voir shows the work to be we'll adj
vanced. The plot of ground was at
first cleared of the thickly set maple
trees and the stumps, covering an
area somewhat larger than the reser-
voir itself. The excavation of a hole
in the ground one hundred and
twenty feet long and forty feet wide