News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-02-15

several days.
Fred Smalley expects to start for
Iowa in about ten days for another
lot of horses.
Yesterdays mails were large
freighted with missives prompted by |
st. Valentine.
Rev. NJ. S. Eddy presented aninter-
esting discourse Sunday evening from
Psa. lst, 3rd.
Very few people in town last Fri !
day. Most of the stores closed at an
unusually early hour.
The Morrisvile Sunlight Gas CO..
put in an Illuminating plantinCratts
bury few days since.
The topic for tomorrow evenings
service in the Congregational vestry
is Christian Courage"
Postmaster Spaulding has just ac-
| Quired some new horse flesh by the
"swap-de-bors6' process.
Thos J. Stewart was at home over
| Sunday from Barre, where he has
been teaching for some time.
H. E. Cowles and his father, A. r.
COwIes of Newport, have opened a
branch music store in Richford.
A handsome specimen of deer,
killed by the cars down south of here
somewhere, went east on the mail
train few days since.
Mrs. Emily Hartson's children were
all at home over Sunday, called here
by her illness. She is now doing as
well as could be expected.
Two weeks from last night the win
ter term of school will close. As
usual, there will be no exhibition at
the close of the winter term.
Miss Agnes Woodward has been at
home from Berlin, N. H., for several
days on visit to her parents, Dr..
and Mrs Geo E. Woodward.
Harry Hardy is vacating tbes second
floor in Dr.. J a. Robinson's residence
He has moved a portion of his
effects to a room in the Randall.
Last Thursday was a day to be re-
mambpred. We got little taste of
the gale and low temperature prevail
ing in various parts of the country,
Geo. F. Earle this week speaks of
muslin underwear and separate skirts
that he has in stock, and hints of the
good things coming in the shape OF
dress goods tor spring wear.
In the Office room off from Hail 81
Chenpy's drug store the town Audi
tors have been wrestling for several
days with the accounts in various de-
partments of town business.
There will be no preaching service
in the Universalst Church next Sun
day morning. Sunday-school and Y.
p. c. I. will meet as usual. Rev. DR..
Booth will hold services in Fletcher.
Orrin Warren returned last week
from Belvidere, where he taught
winter term of school. Richard
Leach will close his winter school at
Belvidere Junction next week Friday.
Our genial telegraphist, Bloom A.
Palmer, has been obliged to do a
large amount of night work at the
station lately, because of the contin-
uOus performance in storm, which has
made railroading terror.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry E. Cowles
have taken rooms and board with
Mr.. and Mrs. b. j. Fisher. They oc-
cupy the rooms vacated by DR.. L. j.
Marshall. They have purchased a
part of II. H. Hardy's furniture.
Friday afternoon at six O'Clock the
United Workers meet and serve dime
supper in the Congregational vestry,
to which general invitation is ex-
tended. The three and four O'Clock
missionary and business meetings are
to be held as usual.
Mrs. Daniel Healey returned from
her home at White River Junction
Saturday, much sooner than she had
planned. Because of her parents
moving back to the farm, Miss Edith
Dodge is away from assisting in the
telephone central in the evening.
Morrisvile basket ball players go
to st. Johnsbury on Friday of this
week, Feb. II, to play a return game
with the st. Johnsbury Y, M. G. A.
team. The Morrisville gymnasium
team will be the same participating
in the first game here, and they hope
to meet the same players over there.
1t of course goes without saying
that Morrisville Methodists will ex-
pect, at the hands of the coming ses-
sin of the Vermont Conference. the
return Of their pastor, Rev. NJ. S.
Eddy, for his second year. The most
interesting question just now prom
ises to be, who Tor the new Presiding
Elder?
The Elmer Smalley property on
Congress street is now owned by
A. II. Campbell in exchange for the
latter's place on Maple street. The
late William Utton, at the time of
his death, owned the Smalley place,
and Mrs. Utton would now find it
pleasant to be as near her sons on
Maple street as the Campbell place.
The record thus far of this lovely
month of February has been almost
beyond comparison. The snowstorm
at al most zero, which continued all
day and night Monday, gradually
slipped into blizzard, and thestorm