News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-01-24

to be held at the church and vestry
at an early date.
The masquerade promenade booked
for last Friday evening failed to ma
terialiZe, on account of numerous
other attractions and lack of interest
in such an event.
Mrs. G. NJ. Powers returns Thurs
day from two weeks stay in Bur-
lington and Boston. Mrs. G. H. Al
mon will return here on Saturday
from New York City.
Rev. Mr.. Nanton's topics for next
Sunday at the NJ. E. church will be,
" Problems How Solved ?" and
" Shall Woman be Equal with Man
in Church and State %
V. C. Heath finishes the decorating
of the interior of c. II. Slocum's new
residence this week. The work has
been done in an excellent manner and
would be hard to beat.
George Bates, who has resumed his
studies at Burlington Medical Col
lege, is accompanied by his wife.
They will keep house." and Lewis
Marshall will have home with them.
Rehearsals for "The Hidden Hand"
are progressing in good shape, and it
is now expected that the drama will
be presented on the evenings Of Feb.
7 and 8. Announcements will soon
be distributed.
The last quarterly conference of the
year will be held at the Methodist
church one week from Saturday.
Presiding Elder Sherburne will be in
attendance and will preach on the
following Sunday.
The five-months- old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Carroll Harris died at midnight
Thursday, of membranous Group, af-
ter "a hours illness. The funeral was
held at II O'Clock Sunday forenoon,
Rev. DR.. Booth officiating.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. X. Currier start
for Boston Saturday, where they will
remain until the next Thursday, and
then leave for Melrose, Florida They
will be accompanied by a few friends
and expect to remain until about the
first of April.
Three new local enterprises are
claiming attention, namely: Cheney's
Cough Cure, put up by Hall & Cheney
Dwinell's Nerve Tonic, bottled by II.
j. Dwinell, and the Satin Gloss Stove
Polish, to be put on the market by
George Houghton. 2
1t has been found necessary to do
considerable more blasting al tae
electric light station to make room
for the wheel. 1t was also found
necessary to raise the foundation wall
about two feet after the bed frame
and wheel settings were in position.
The News AND CITIZEN lob Office, al
though well equipped now, is to have
additional machinery and better fa.
cilities for doing work. With more
help and these improvements we will
be enabled to do work even better
and more promptly than heretofore.
The Academy students have a ly.
ceum on the program for Friday
evening. Among other things they
will discuss the relative merits ol
preaching and reading. This will be
followed by q social given by the
young ladies, the proceeds to go into
the piano fund.
The report quite generally circulat
ed Monday, to the effect that the
shippers of the aforementioned and
much talked of ''maple syrup" had
brought action against the town o.
Morristown to recover the aforesaid
syrup, orits value, seems to be with
out foundation. ,t... .a.
Action upon the Round the World
Temperance Petition" of the W. G
T. T., has been taken by the three
churches here, with a unanimous
church vote in its support. This
mammoth petition is addressed tc
rulers of nations, and is already sale
to be three miles in length. =.
In the absence of Rev. DR.. Booth
Miss S. Carrie Chase read an interest
ing address by Rev. George W. Gates
former principal of Peoples Acad
envy and now located in the west, a,
the Universalist church last Sunday
morning. DR.. Booth went from th'
funeral service at Carroll Harris tt
his Wolcott charge. ,artt1 apn..
In the coming 2Sth annual encamp
ment of the Department of Vermon'
g. A. r. at Brattleboro, Jan. 80 anC
81, Col. G. w. Doty will serve on th,
Committee on Resolutions, and A. A
Niles will be a member of the Com
mittee on Report of Department Com
mander and also on the Committe,
on Reception of the Commander-in
Chief. 49,.
The Epworth League will hold {
social at the M. Z. church vestry
Friday evening of this week, com
mencing at 7 o'clock. A pleasan
occasion is anticipated. Admission
10c. Refreshments will be served
, Why not make this the begin
ming of n more general attendanc
at these socials by members of th
League and others? lad 4 .l}.
Do Probably the largest load Of lum
T Der ever brought into this place wa
J that drawn here last week Wednes
day by W. N. Jones four-horse team
from Swift's mill at Garfield Their
were 5000 feet in the load--half
car load. Cutler photographed th'
i load, and it will make a good show