News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-03-05
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is turning out a pretty black sheep.
School at the Academy closed Fri
day of last week. The vacation ex-
tends one week.
Fred LilIey is in Portland, Me-,
this week, where he is taking instruc-
tions in the ar6 of embalming.
Kinney, the electrician, fell against
a belt at the electric light plant Moni
day, injuring an arm quite badly.
Sociahle at the vpstry Friday eve
ming. Good supper and more fun
than the Injuns." EVERYBODY invited.
Mrs. Elmore Grimes and her two
daughters leave Monday next fora few
weeks visit with friends in Bellerica,
Mass.
j. s Leach and wife we're in Cam
bridge q few days lately, where Mr..
Leach was looking after his farm in
tprpsts.
The second social chop" for the
benefit of the orchestra piano fund
occurs at the Town Hall Saturday
evening.
Mrs. James Buckham, who has
been visiting her parents here, re-
turned to her home in Massachusetts
last Friday.
Round trip tickets from this place
to Hardwick are sold during the mu-
steal convention now in session at
the latter place.
The young friends of Alice God
dard gave her pleasant surprise
party last Friday evening in honor
OF her 18th birthday.
Keller, the hardware man, is al
ready scoring up" on bicS clps for
the coming season, and now has a
fine "Euvoy,' a western wheel, on
exhibition.
Notwithstanding the freshets and
bizz4rds the Centrpville mail came
through on time Monday and Tues
day. The northern stage was cam
celIed Monday.
Many in this town who knew Ethan
A. Allen in former years will regret to
learn of his death from pneumonia,
where he had gone on visit.
A freshet, with its attendant wash
outs, on one day, followed by snow
fall, wind storm and blockade the
next, show some of the acrobatic
feats Vermont weather can perform.
About twenty of the young ladies
and gentlemen of the village met
with Miss Amber Whitcomb last FRI
day night and passed pleasant
evening, the entertainment being
drive whist.
Those interested are considering
the idea of leasing the corner lot be-
longing to the Congregational So
ciety and putting it in first-class
shape for a tennis court next summer
and a skating rink next winter.
The ice jams that occurred on the
river at several points Sunday pre-
spnted quite a picturesque spectacle
and attracted various Onlookers,
who gazed on the scene with aWed
admiration from their points of
vantage.
All communication by rail with the
outside world was cut off Monday,
owing to washouts both up and
down the line. No trains got through,
except between some close local
points. No Boston or New York mail
here from Saturday night until Tues
day morning.
Ezra Brown, who lives with his
brother-in-law, AlphonzO. Boyes, on
Creamery st., chopped off the end of
his left forefnger last Thursday while
cutting wood. DR.. Slayton was called
and found it necessary to amputate
the finger just above the knuckle
Joint.
The Boston dailies failed to make
their appearance here on Sunday,
owing to the impossible condition of
the roads. Since the Inauguration
something over a year ago-of bring
ing the Boston Sunday dailies over
land from Waterbury, this is the first
time they have failed to reach the
place.
Judge Powers has kindly remem-
bered the Hyde Park Library by ask
ing the Department of the Interior to
send to us a compendium of the 18th
census, and asking the Navy Depart
ment to send a set of navy war rec
ords. The Judge does not forget his
old home.
The many friends of W. NJ. Batchel-
der, the well-known travelling man,
will extend to him their deepest SYM
pathy in the death of his wife, which
occurred at their home in Newport
Friday, Feb. 81, of typhoid pneumo-
MIA after an Illness of only seven
days. She was woman of rare
Christian graees and held in high re-
gard by all. She leaves two children.
A section of Chapter 3, Article 1, Of
the Village Bylaws, reads as follows:
Nor shall any coal ashes, or filth of any
kind or in any quantity, be dumped or left
| on the sidewalk or in the streets, on pain of
] forfeiture to said corporation of n sum not
exceeding five dollars for each otfense, with
costs of prosecutions and the said Trustees
may cause such nuisance to be removed at
the cost of the person causing the same.
This bylaw in several instances is
being violated, and while we hardly
think extreme measures would be
necessary to stop the practice, we
| mould oolI tha attention nf tho