News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-10-04
TERMS, $1.25.
and this week they are doing the
Tunbridge fair.

South Superior, Wis, have returned
east. They are at present with his
sister, Mrs. j. S. Waite, while Mr..
Mudgett is looking around for a de-
sirable location.
Rev. F. C. Taylor and family have
gone to Massachusetts for a few
weeks. A sermon will be read at the
church next Sunday and if the pastor
does not return the following Sun
day, supply will be provided.
Good dry hard wood is being
brought into the village in consider
able quantities. The approach of
cold weather makes a demand for it
and it goes at $1.75 to $500, ac-
cording to the amount bought.
Walter Keeler of Boston, who has
been spending a portion of his vaca-
tion with relatives here, returned to
duty Monday. Last week. in COM
pany with his father, D. Fl. Keller,
he visited relatives in Prescott and
Toronto, Ont.
At st. Teresa's church the forty
hours devotion begin next Sunday,
opening with high mass at 1870 a.
M, followed by beads and benedic-
tion at 730 p. m. Mass Monday
morning at 9 with beads and benedic-
tion at 730. Mass Tuesday at $50.
A very handsome monument has
been set up on the A. P. Smalley lot
in the village cemetery. 1t is from
H. r. Mack's shops in Hardwick and,
like all other work from there, is
first-class. A stone has also been
placed on the Lewis Boyes lot, from
Lancaster, N. HI.
Ira c. Fleming, who has been con-
fined in the county Jail for several
weeks on a charge of incendiarism,
has secured the required bondsmen
and was given his liberty Saturday
night. Philip Peterie, the attempted
wife murderer, is now the only occu-
pant of the jail.
The work OF plastering the new
church is now going on. The vestry,
ladies parlor and ante-rooms have
been given the first coat and the
main auditorium is now receiving at.
tention. The painters are printing
the exterior, which is the only atten-
tion the outside will receive this fall.
Ira G. Blake of Worcester, Mass,
was in town the first of the week to
make his annual inspection of the
locks in the bank vault. Mr.. Blake
is the possessor of a keen intellect
and is an excellent conversational
ist. He gave brief but interesting
talk in the Sunday evening prayer
meeting. 4,
The Buck & Stevens mills at South
Troy were completely destroyed by
fire Monday night. The property
buried comprised grist mill, saw mill,
store, boarding houses, etc. The
concern is now in bankruptcy, but as
one time the property was valued at
$4,000 to $4,000. The loss will
probably be in the neighborhood Of
500, ,000 partially insured. The fire
was seen from here and also at Stowe,
forty miles from the scene.
Walter Strong is earring potatoes
and the current price Is 25 cents per
bushel. Many of the farmers will
probably hold their product for an
advance in price, but a considerable
quantity has already been placed
upon the cars. Will Grimes thinks
he has the record for the largest load
drawn, bringing down 50 bushels
at one time, which would aggregate
more than a ton and a half of pota-
toes, and with a pair of light horses
too.
With their seemingly inexhaustibie
wealth of new ideas the ladies of the
village have concocted another
scheme whereby they will assist In
defraying the expense current upon
the building of the new church.
About 200 diminutive barrels will
be distributed among the parish.
toner's, with a slit in each barrel
into which each individual is ex-
pected to drop at least a penny @
day until Oct. 31-Hallowe'en. At
this time an entertainment will be
given which will be well worth the
amount in the barrels, and holders
of these will be entitled to admission,
so that good value will be received
to each contributor aside from the
benevolent purpose to which the pro-
ceeds are applied. The barrels have
been so readily taken that the sue
cess of the plan is already assured.
Philip Peterie, who has been feign-
ing insanity for some time, has come
to his senses and is now behaving
himself like man." He has given
Sheriff Stevens quite a little trouble,
but Jonas has all along believed he
was fooling, Monday night he was
given his supper and the next morn
ing was told that he could have moth
ing more to eat until he bad passed
out the dishes-a rule which is
always adhered to. He was morose
and sullen and Jonas again told him,
mo dishes, no food" Peterie kept
up his sukiness until along in the af-
ternoon when he raped on the door
and told Mrs. Stevens he would give
up, that Jonas was too smart for
him." He passed out the dishes and
slicked up his room and is now on
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