News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-05-26

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Lamoille County Y. p. S. c. f. will
be held at Waterville Friday of next
week. Programmes will be out in a
few days.
The Board of Trustees held a ses-
sion in A. A. Niles office Monday eve
ming. 1t is quite likely, if not entire
ly certain, that the corporation
walks and streets will be placed in
care of James T. Jewett.
The Congregational church elected
as delegate to the County Conference,
held yesterday, Mr.. G X. Currier,
and as delegate to the State COnven-
ton to be held in Middlebury, in
June, Mrs. D. W. Tenney.
All members of the organizations
more directly interested, as well as
all Others who listened, are speaking
words of kind appreciation of the
patriotic sermon by Rev. Mr.. Kel-
logg on Sunday afternoon.
Clayton, son of George Mower. who
has been in Superior, Iowa, for a
year, has been promoted by the com
pany for which he is at work. His
pay is advanced and he moves from
Superior to Meriden, Iowa.
All persons interested should note
the fact that the time for holding the
annual Academy alumni banquet
and reunion, has necessarily hpen
changed TO Monday evening, May
81, from Tuesday evening. June l.
Lewis w Wakefield starts out for
another seasons engagement with
the ChIds Co. of Utica, n. Y, as tray
cling salesman, about the 1st of June.
Carriages, sIeighs, harnesses, robes,
and farm implements are the lines he
sells.
The hi-weekly suppar and sociabIe
at the Cong'l vestry Friday evening
was we'll attended and furnished a
pleasant occasion. The banjo and
guitar club, eight in number, were
present and did themselves great
credit.
Rev. Alfred +. Booth, pastor Of the
UniversaIist church at St. Alhans, n
son Of Rev. DR.. LP Booth, will, it is
feared, have to resign his pastorate,
because of a lung trouble. HegOes to
the Adirondack mountain region
soon tor his health.
Prof. and Mrs. Beebe were receiving
the congratulations of their many
f lends on Sunday, upon the fact that
a son was born to them that
morning. Condolences followed con-
aratulatiOns very quickly, as the lit
tie one died at half past ten Sunday
night.
Rev. l. P. Booth is to preach a
sermon before the annual meeting of
the Central Vermont Association of
Universalists, to he held in Williams
town on Wednesday and Thursday
of next week, June and 3. His SER
mon is to be delivered Thursday
forenoon.
Electrician Dow has placed 65-
candle-pOwer incandescent light at
the upper end of Academy park light
ing the front ofthe Academy building
and the upper portion of the park,
which is somewhat shadowed by the
trees from the arc light below the
band stand.
The recent purchase of the wood
and pasture land from the Luman
Wheeler estate was a personal invest
ment by Mr.. Henry NJ. Gordon, the
superintendent of the National Fibre
Board Co.'s works here, and was not
a transaction in which the company
was interested, so says Mr.. Gordon.
The date of the iDterscholastic
prize speaking contest at Burlington
has been changed to Friday, June 4,
from Friday, May %. On the for
mer date Melvin Morse, of the
senior class, represents Morrisvlle
Academy in the contest, participated
in by several Academies and High
Schools.
A sharp thunder shower passed
over us at about eight O'Clock, last
Thursday night. A bright flash and
as quick as a flash out went the
lights ia the incandescent system.
The switch board at the light sta
tion was burned out and quite a
blaze resulted. The arc system was
not affected.
The annual meeting of the Ladies'
Circle of the Universalist parish will
be held in the church parlor on Thurs
day afternoon of this week. The busi-
ness meeting is appointed at three
o'clock, and the ladies are reminded
that matters of Importance are to be
considered at this time. Supper will be
served at six O'Clock.
The Teachers Association met
Saturday, May %, at the home of
Miss Agnes Mower. The following
subjects were discussed Thoughts
about Grading District Schools"
DR.. Booth; Reading" Mr.. Dodge;
"Value of Teaching Physiology"
Miss Strong. The meeting was a
very profitable one, and was ad-
iourned until Saturday, June II.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Churchill and
Frank Jackson went to the summit
of Mount Mansfield the first of the
week to open up, for the season, the
hotel. Miss Daisy LeBaron, Miss
Titus, who has been at Mrs. A. M.
Churchill's, Mrs. Gates, who resides
over in Brooklyn, and Miss johnson
of Stowe, will 90 up for the season to