News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-08-13


F. C. Waterman and wife spent
Sunday with friends in st. Johnsbury.
A. q. Valleau of Hartford, Conn,
visited relatives here the first of the
week.
Mrs. George Stratton and children
of Burlington visited in town last
week.
Geo. Gale and Miss Belle Scribner
have gone to Old Orchard to spend
week.
Miss Lima Cook of Portland, Me-,
is the guest of her friend Miss Alice
Page.
Miss Alice Eastman is spending a
few weeks with relatives at Woods
vile, N. H.
N. G. Wood and Geo. Gale made
a trip on wheels to Willoughby
Lake last week.
A. E. Walden, who now has an
electrical job in Boston, was in town
part of last week.
Miss Bessie Abbott, who has been
visiting relatives in this place, re-
turned to her home in Boston Mon
day.
Judge and Mrs. E. G. White returned
from Rhode Island Saturday evening,
and business at the Probate Office is
once more resumed.
H. NJ. Noyes is making extensive
repairs on his house and during the
renovating himself and family are
dining at the Phoenix.
The ladies of the Home Culture Club
are requested to meet in the parlors
of Hotel Phoenix next Saturday after
noon at three O'Clock.
Master Arthur Sherwin and sister
Edith are up from Burlington on
visit to their grandparents, Judge
and Mrs. l.. B. Sherwin.
E. H. Crane of Ludlow is a guest
at H. G. Cranes. He was accompa-
MED here by a friend, Winifred Lane,
who has since returned home.
Pixies new telephone line has been
put in at this place, giving us com
munication with both Morrisville and
Cady's Falls. Its a good system.
Miss Mamie Boomhower, who has
been spending her vacation here, re-
turned to her position in the indus.
trial school at Howard, R. L., last
Saturday.
Lester Boomhower left Saturday
for an absence of several weeks, dur
ing which time he will visit relatives
aud friends in New Hampshire, Mas
sachusetts and Connecticut.
In spite of the hot weather, twenty
-four from this place took in the circus
at st. Johnsbury Tuesday. Although
the day was "scorcher' they report
a big crowd and great circus.
A camping party, composed of
twenty or more young ladies and
gentlemen, duly chaperoned, will go
on the 18th inst. to BacOn's Land
ing on Lake Elmore for short stay.
DR.. E. E. Vaughan arrived from
Chicago Monday for his annual va
cation. Mrs. Vaughan and little girl
came on some time ago and have
since been at her fathers in Johnson.
Judge Sherwin fell down stairs last
week Tuesday, sustaining severe in
iuries. Although no bones were
broken, he was badly shaken up and
badly bruised. He is getting along
comfortably.
If the party who took the whip
from a buggy under the meeting
house shed last Monday afternoon
will leave the same at the postottice,
no further questions will be asked ;
otherwise, look out.
The board of Civil Authority meets
at the Town Clerks office Saturday,
the 18th, at 2 o'clock p. M, for the
purpose of making corrections in the
checklist. See if your name is there,
and if there correctly.
The water house and tool house
at the depot have been painted in
the Boston & Maine regulation col
ors. This looks as though the Off
cials will allow no more circus bills
plastered thereon. Good
Geo. Gilmore of Cambridge was in
town the past week, and while here
closed a trade with Geo. Brown, by
which the latter becomes the possess.
or of the formers farm in this town
We understand $1,000 was the price
paid.
The latest up-to.date bicycle suit is
that recently imported by F. p. Hill
Its a dandy and no mistake. Frank
takes great pride in wearing it, and
when he perambulates about the vii
lage he huns Just tell them that
you saw me.
Prof. Sturtevant and family, who
have been stopping a few weeks witt
Mrs. Blodgett, Mrs. Sturtevant's
mother, left Tuesday morning iol
Burlington and other places. Prof
Sturtevant has engaged to teach il
Milton the coming year.
The heat of the past week has beer
something unprecedented in this sec
tion, and in fact all over the country
Showers were frequent and the at
mosphere charged with electricity
The display of forked lightning tina
illumined the heavens Friday nigh
was a grand sight.
i Couillard of Boston. electsica