News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1898-02-23
HYDE PARK.

Mrs. NJ. Goodhue is absent on a
visit with friends in Richford.
Rollin Cleveland of Claremont, N.
e., is visiting relatives in town.
R. W. Hulburd attended the funeral
of Miss Ide at st. Johnsbury Tuesday.
The bell for the new school building
has arrived, and it's a Jim Dandy"
Mrs. S. B. Waite, who has been very
i'll for several weeks, is now much
better.
Rev. g. L. Story Of Milton, for
mer pastor here. was in to vn a short
time Tuesday.
H. H. Robbius of Cortlatd, N. Y,
was in town one day last week, on
wagon business.
Solon Whitcomb is up from New
Hampshire after another car load of
those famous cattle.
A large number from this place at
tended the Eli Perkins lecture at Nor
risville Monday evening.
Contributions of clothing, &C., for
the Cuban sufferers, will be received at
the church Thursday afternoon.
With the fall of another foot or
two of snow the prospect is good for
sleighing for several weeks to come.
All. Manley of Enosburg Falls
was giving personal attention to his
various contracts in this village a
day or two last week.
Miss Grace Noyes observed Wash
ington's. birthday by entertaining the
little folks Of the primary department
at her home Tuesday evening.
Amateur photographers snapped"
the snow drifts very extensively last
week-presumably for reference dur
ing the dog days next summer.
Misses Dora Fairbanks and Berta
Cheney completed their work in the
village school at Jeffersonville last
Friday and have returned home.
Never before within the memory of
the "oldestinhabitantr were the high
ways and by wavs of the village filed
up with snow drifts as they we're last
week.
Friday evening comes the masquer-
ade promenade, box party, so rec, &C..
at the Town Hall, for benedt of the
Skating Rink. rattling good time
may be expected.
Chester Leach has been home from
Burlington for a few days respite
oopu;nn o-L oELo.
Pleasures ConueC5eu wTrn cne me or
a medical student
Lots of war talk these days about
town. The spirit of patriotism is
not dead by any means. One mer-
chant informs us that Spanish olives
don't sell at all now.
We understand that by special re-
quest "Aunt Hannah's Quilting Par
ty" will be repeated next month with
several new and up-to-date features.
Proceeds for cemetery fund.
The ladies will serve a hot dinner
at the vestry Town Meeting day for
the small sum of fifteen cents. Let
all go and get good square meal
aud help swell the new church fund,
Miss Fannie Cheney, who has been
sick for long time and is still in a
critical condition, seems to gain
rather than otherwise, which fact will
be good news to her large number of
friends.
s. B. Waite received word from his
brother Martin Monday stating that
the store where he is employed in
Worcester, Mass, was destroyed by
fire last Friday. The fire broke out
in the opera house in the same block.
Quite a large number of the acad-
emy students attended the prone
made at No. Hyde Park, given by the
students of the school at that place
at the close of the term last Friday
evening. All report a very pleasant,
social time.
Thereisgreat rejoicing at the home
of Mr.. aud Mrs. James Buckham of
Atlantic, Mass, over the arrival last
Friday, of fine girl baby. "Grand-
pa" Brigham wears an unusually
pleasant smile himself, and "Aunt
Blanche" is all sunbeams.
1t is a somewhat unfamiliar force
of conductors the regular travellers
see on the passenger trains, owing to
a grand sweep made a few days since
by the B. & NJ official decapitator.
Seven conductors, including some of
the oldest and most popular, were
given the sack" with no great
amount of explanation.
Thomas Bristol of st. Johnsbury,
a brakeman on the way freight going
east, fell off the end of a car while
switching in the yard here this morn
ing. Both legs were run over. Both
of the physicians here being away,
an engine was sent to Morrisville,
and Drs. Rublee and Bates brought
over. The injured man was taken to
the Phoenix, and it was found that
the left leg would have to be ampu-
tated. This afternoon the above
physicians, with the aid of DR.. Genge,
performed the operation. 1t is
thonght the right limb can be saved.
The young man was nearer the end
ofthe car than he thought, and that
was the cause of his fall. Jack Sack
EFT saw him fall and pulled him from
under the cars, doubtless saving his