News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-10-04
MORRISXlLlE.

Ensilage cutting and the filing of
silos is in full blast these days, among
our farmers.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. N. Hutchius left
Monday for New York City, intend
ing to be absent week or ten days.
A. C. Littel, who has had charge OF
Dykes bicycle shop during the sum-
mer, has purchased the business. See
annOunCe nent.
Regular meeting OF Warner Post
next Saturday at 2 p. n. Let there
be full attendance, as new men,
Der is to be taken into the Post.
A. F Bowen was the first of the
New York excursionists to return
home, reaching here Friday night.
He saw Dewey, and that was part
of what he went for.
The work on George NJ. Powers
new residence is being pushed with
vigor. George is commander-in-
chief, and gives bis orders with the
precision of veteran builder,
An effort is being made by the
young people of the Methodist church
to secure the Rev. c. S. Nutter D. D. ,
of st. Adams to give his lecture
''Christ in Art and Song" The eff
fort bids fair to he successful and the
lecture will probably be given in the
NJ. E, church October 10.
Mrs. A B. Strong and son, Arthur,
left Monday for Newburyport, Mass,
to visit Henry Strong. Her daugh-
ter, Miss Mary Strong, a teacher on
Thompson's Island, will meet her
there. Later Mrs. Strong will go to
Boston and Thompson's Island, be-
ing absent from here about ten days.
Mrs. Simon Best is noted for the
raising of fine flow ers and remember
ed the Ne Us AND CITIZEN with a fine
bunch last Saturday. Her daughter,
Miss Elna, not to be outdone, con-
tributed quite as large a bunch of
raspberry branches filed with ripe
berries. Two crops of ras pberries in
one season is doing extremely well
for Vermont.
The Harvest Concert at the NJ. E.
church last Sunday was an affair to
be gratefully remembered by those
who witnessed it. The church was
very prettiIy and appropriately dec
GRATED for the occasion. The pro-
gram was very finely carried out by
the members of the Sunday school,
in which the younger portion well
bore their part,
Don Sanders has achieved remark.
able proficiency, considering his store
duties at Dwinell's, in the writing of
cards for advertising purposes, both
for his employer and the ladies get
ting up local entertainments. 1t is
needless to say that he has become
a favorite with both parties, whether
IN waiting on Gust omers or doing the
class of work referred to above.
W. M. Clark, one brother, and
three sisters, held, at Meredith, N. H.,
last week family reunion, at which
numerous relatives and friends we're
present. 1t was the first event in
years when all the brothers and SIS
tiers had met each other at one time,
and if the CLEAN in "Barb's" eyes is
any indication, the affair must have
been a very pleasant one to him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. F. Earle went to
New York Monday to catch view
of the business side of the great city,
for the benefit of the patrons of the
Portland Street Store, and it may
he presumed that they will not come
back empty handed OF many fine
things to please the practiced eye.
The store is in charge of Miss Ellen
Cram of Burlington during their
absence.
By the change of time on the st.
J. & l.. G. railroad, taking effect
Monday, there is quite radical
change in the arrival of the east
bound mail train, it reaching here at
9:54 a. m. There are no material
changes in the other trains, except
the Hyde Park one, which now leaves
about an hour earlier in the morn
ing; in the evening it reaches here a
good deal earlier, resuming the
usual winter schedule of 500.
The telephone requiring work in
this vicinity has been completed as
far as planned for the present and
the force has gone to make a new
line to Waterville, leaving the main
line at the old Columbus Chadwick
farm now occupied by Julius Green,
this side of Cambridge Junction.
This makes a more direct line and
will give better service. There is a
prospect that the work may be car
ried through to Belvidere if the work
ing weath her holds out long enough.
The poles we're shipped from here.
Sunday evening, at The Randall,
was given up TO party of travelling
men whose birthplace was in the
South or their home had largely
been there. Of course the race ques-
ton was a portion OF the topic
dwelt Apon and the description given
OF some of he recent lynchings was
quite thrilling, though repulsive to
our mode of thinking Though some
rather pointed interjections were
thrust into the narrative, they were
good-nuture1lv received and replied