News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-11-03
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having raised more pumpkins this
year than all the rest of the town put
together. and we guess he has, iudg-
ing from the handsome load he
brought to the village Monday.
pumpkins are pumpkins this year,
but Republican prosperity has smiled
on AL and he has a good crop.
Capt. Leach has arranged with the
Ladies Aid to serve an oyster supper
to those who partoOk in the recent
squirrel hunt on Saturday evening of
this week. Feast takes place at ves-
try at $50 O'Clock. Extra plates
will be laid and the general public
may fill themselves with good cheer
and savory stewed oysters at per
capita tax OF % cents. Better come.
The poor old meetin' house sheds
got some pretty severe treatment a
few evenings ago, which makes them
even more wobbly and disreputable-
looking than ever. Why in the name
of common sense and progress can't
this aggregation of worn. out, caved-
in old horse stalls be given quietus?
There ought to be some good, re-
spectacle sheds, but these old "ram-
shackles" have outlved their USE
fulness.
Gov. Pages calendar for 1898
will be somewhat larger and more
elaborate than any previous issue.
Ten thousand is the number, printed
in three colors and requiring 100000
impressions. An idea of the bulk of
paper to be used may be obtained
from the fact that about three tons.
or $50 reams, will be required for
the same. Like last year the entire
work will be done by the News AND
CITIZEN establishment.
C. H. Crane has this week Joined
the ranks of the wise merchants and
placed an adv. in the local paper
where it will hereafter make it's regu-
lar appearance. "Bert" has lust
been getting in a fine stock of winter
underwear and other goods, and in
spite of the fact that Mckinley pros
perity is here he is going to sell stock
at prices that will enable you to get
what you need and have money left
to purchase luXuries with. Read his
adv. and give him a call
Cashier Noyes was somewhat taken
back one day last week to receive a
letter from the proprietors of New
York banking magazine, addressed
to the bank, expressing sympathy at
the death of its estimable cashier and
enquiring who would behis successor.
When e. L. had fully recovered rom
reading his obituary be wrote on the
back of the letter that as far as he
could learn he was still in the land of
the living and hoped to remain here
for some time 10 come. Evidently
the concern had the death of G. S.
Noyes of Morrisville mixed up with
this bank.
4 number of the young misses of
the village were very pleasantly en-
tertained last Saturday evening by
Miss Isadore NOyes. 1t was a regu-
lar girl" party and nearly all the
whims and pranks associated with
Halloween were INDUCED in. Per-
haps the most amusing Incidents were
the ducking for apples and the trip
up to the town pump eating bread
and milk. There may have been 9th
er features, but as our local scribe
was not invited we are able to emu
merate only what we heard men
toned afterward. At any rate it was
very pleasant affair, the girls pro-
nouncing it too goodfor anything"
Another year is fast slipping away
and yet Hyde Park is without any
proper fire protection. Must this be
so? Must there be really serious
confagration before the people will
realize that 'an ounce of prevention"
is a good thing to have in the public
family? Don't wait for the horse to
be stolen before locking the barn.
Surely there can be devised and car
ried into effect some means by which
the villagers may feel that there
would be some protection in case of
fire Talk it up. Almost anything
that will afford even a slight degree
of immunity from the danger of a
widespread cont1agratlon would be
better than nothing.
Mrs. V L. Blodgett, whose serious
illness we have noted the past two or
three weeks, died Tuesday afternoon.
She had been i'll about eight or nine
weeks. The cause of her death was
tumor on the liver Mrs. Blodgett
was the wife of Vernon l.. Blodgett
whom she married about twenty
years ago. She was born in Morris
town, but lived the greater part of
her life in Stowe. Mr.. Blodgett came
here with his family some six years
ago. The deceased was a woman of
many good qualities, activein church
work, kind and considerate to the
poor and a good neighbor Besides
her husband she is survived by two
children-Mrs. j. V. Sturtevant of
Milton, a daughter by a former hus-
band, and Eta May. The funeral
will take place from the house Thurs
day afternoon at l O'Clock, and the
remains will be taken to Stowe for
interment. The bereaved family have
the sympathy of all in their deep
affliction.
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