News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-07-23
JOHNSON.

W. D. Welch is having his store shingled.
Mrs. r. C. Benton visited friends in Mont
pelier last week.
Mrs Joel Allen of Burlington is a guest of
Mrs. N. Jones.
Misses Alice and Grace Waite are spending
some time in Stowe.
Lee Hodge visited his sister in Berkshire
the first of the week.
James Newcomb is making extensive re-
pairs on his house.
About thirty new books have been added
to the village library.
Mrs. Avery Holmes is spending the week
with relatives in Swanton.
Sumner Story spent Sunday with his cous-
in, James Stafford, in Berkshire.
Miss Myrtle Bradley of Fairfield is spending
the summer at Mrs. Geo Livermore's.
Miss Hickey of Rutland has been spending
some time at her uncle's James Hickey's
Joseph Odell is making very extensive i'm
provements on his house on Stearns street.
Rev. and Mrs. Cochran and daughter of
Antrim, N H., were guests at j. X. Hills last
week.
Vernon Patch has bought the Leach house
on lower Maine street, and will take possession
soon.
Prof Oscar Atwood and Mrs. R. W. Nc
Farland visited relatives in st. Adams re-
Gently.
Mrs Rice who has been so i'll, is much bet
ter, and strong hopes are entertained of her
recovery.
The barn on the Blake farm, which B. A..
Hunt has been building this summer, is nearly
completed.
Rev. R. F. Low attended the funeral of the
infant child of Will Notemire at Waterville
last Saturday.
Miss Emma Dolloff who has been for the
past year in New Bedford, Mass is guest
at |. l.. Pearls.
Miss Sophia Cowles spent several days last
week in Lancaster. n. H., and Guildhall, VT,
the guest of friends
Mr.. and Mrs Lewis Fletcher are receiving
congratulations upon the birth of a son, born
last Thursday morning.
l.. L. Pearl and Miss Lizzie Pearl attende d
the funeral of their uncle, Frank Leonart IN
Burlington last Saturday.
Mrs. Diana Clement of Chicago is spending
some time with her sister, Miss Jennie Cham
berlain, at Homer Stanley's.
At the corporation meeting last week the
trustees were Authorized to build new hose
house and cover the reservoir.
Handsome pa mphlets for the NormalSchOOI
are being printed by the News and Citizen
folks and will be out next week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. C. Fullington have moved
from tie tenement over e. &. Monteith's
and are now boarding at Mrs. Cyrus Davis
Mr. and Mrs. George Lepper of St Adams
Mrs. Bert Ryan of Georgia, and Mrs. Helen
Blake of Milton, were guests of Mrs. Joel
Partlow last week.
Mary, the youngest child of John Driscoll'
died on Thursday, after an illness of week.
The parents and brothers and sisters have
the sympathy of all.
johnson Grange will hold a special meeting
July 80 to confer degrees. full attendance
is desired. Let every member OF the Grange
strive to be there.
Prof Ranger the new principal of the Nor
NAL, is at Springfield this week, giving a
course of lectures on psychology" at the
Windsor county summer school,
Mrs l. L. Pearl returned on Monday even
ing from Vergennes, where she has spent
some time. Her friends are glad to know
that her health is much improved
B. S. Fullington is making extensive re-
pairs upon the house near K. o. Story s
owned by him. The village water is being
brought to the house and other needed i'm
provements made.
School closed in district No. 1, last Tues.
day with a picnic in Mr. Story's orchard,
which was much enjoyed by ALL Record of
attendance is as follows Those having no
absence were Clayton Stinson, Hanna Prince,
Wilmer Prinde, Stanley lockwood and Lila
Holiday. Those having none, except from
sickness, Will Sargent, Lena Story, John
Prince Albert Atwell, Grace Sargent, Anna
Courser Lena Patterson and Rollin Sargent.
Mabel Rogers, teacher.
In congratulation to the friends of the Nor
NAL school, the Trustees and the Principal
announce, with great pleasure, the engage
ment of Mr. j. B. Ham, A. M, as teacher
of the natural sciences for the coming year.
Mr.. Ham was formerly student in the New
Hampshire State Normal School at Ply
mouth, is graduate of Bates College, has
pursued postgraduate courses at Harvard,
and has been the teacher of natural science
and mathematics in Lyndon institute for nine
years. Mr.. Ham is a Christian gentleman OF
sound scholarship, true refinement, and OF
marked ability and skill in his profession.