News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-05-14
HYDE PARK.

Mrs. r. W. Hulburd and daughter
Emily are visiting relatives in st.
Adams.
The young people will hold cotil-
lion party at the town hall Saturday
evening next.
Prof. H. B. Chittenden of the Uni
versity of Vermont, was in the village
the past week.
H. j. Lilley & Co. have fitted up
an office in their building opposite
the postoffice.
Mrs. Sophia Bishop and Mrs. NAL
vina Cannon of Franklin are visiting
relatives in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Buckham of
Atlantic, Mass, are guests at Hon.
Waldo Brigham's.
Charles Riley left to-day-Wednes-
day-for Proctor, where he has a
position in a drug store.
Mrs. Sarah Jones and daughter of
Bakersfield have been visiting Mrs.
Jones' brother, L. W. Minor.
One of the cosiest cottages, as well
as most conveniently arranged, is
that being built by F. Collins.
Fri ElIinwood is very poorly. His
daughter, Mrs. Jennie Forester, has
come here to take care of him.
Mrs. Vina Taylor and children of
Shelburne and Miss Nina Taylor of
Boston we're recent guests of W. II.
Pease.
A. J. Sackett, for a long time Sec
tion boss on the railroad here, left
Monday for Carver, Mass, where he
has a similar job.
DR.. Fred'k Page was up from Rut-
land for a few days the past week,
aud while here enjoyed bare back
ride on the Odd Fellows goat.
Miss Fannie Cheney is teaching the
young ideas at the Centre and Miss
Anna Lilley is engaged in a similar
occupation on Mckinstry Hill.
The genial J. H. Drew of st. Johns
bury was in town last week in the in
terest of that sterling life insurance
company, the New York Mutual.
A Democratic caucus for the pur-
pose of electing delegates to the con-
vention to be held at Montpelier
May "a will be held at the town hall
Saturday evening next.
II. J. Lilley took a day off last
Saturday and went to Greensboro
fishing. Evidently he didn't have
his usual good luck, for he brought
back bit few-s. the speckled beau
ties.
Rev. F. c. Taylor and family leave
next Monday for Cranky, Mass, for
vacation of a few weeks. Miss
Mary Taylor goes at the same time
and to the same place, where she will
spend her summer vacation.
Tuesday evening there was a run
away on Ellinwood Avenue, starting
from Jones' meat market and cul-
minating in a grand double somer-
sault and rolI-over, involving both
horse and wagon, into the ditch at
Lanpher's corner. The wagon was
somewhat demolished, but other
than that no damage was done.
Business in this berg is unusually
lively at present. The May receipts
at ex-Gov. Pages hide house bid fair
to exceed those of any previous
month in the history of his business.
Among the orders received last week
was one by cable from German
tanner for 10000 skins, making 49,
600 from the same source this month,
George Perry, aged 40 years, who
during the past ten years has been
cared for in the family of John Hub
bard at Centreville, died at that
place Saturday morning of heart
disease. The funeral service was
held Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock,
Rev. f. c. Taylor officiating. The
remains were inferred in the Centre
cemetery.
The U. S. mail authorities have
posted notice asking for proposals
for carrying the mails from the post
office to the depot. Cushing Nichols,
an old soldier, has carried the mail
for the past twenty years and de-
pends largely upon the little remu-
neration received therefrom for his
subsistence. A petition asking for
his retention is being numerously
signed.
N. II. Earle of Manchester, N. H.,
was in town the past week visiting
at J. S. Leach's. j. S. and his guest
spent one day in angling for trout in
Hyde Pond-C. M. Strong & Co..
private preserve-and captured two
that tipped the beam at four and
one-half pounds each. They also
brought back a fine assortment of
smaller ones, running from a quarter
of pound up.
Our esteemed townsman, William
Crowel, met with an unfortunate
accident Saturday afternoon as he
was about to leave Denio's shop. He
had O. clock under one arm, and
when getting into the wagon was
giving no particular attention to the
horse, which "cramped " the wagon SO
as to overturn it and Mr.. Crowell was
thrown out. The horse came down
Church street at q rafting pace,
turned Pages corner at a 2:30 clip,
leaving the wagon with the exception
of the forward wheels, and continued
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