News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-01-17

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earnest. The ice is of a prime quality
and about IA inches in thickness.
E. E. Harris had New England
Telegraph & Telephone Co., phone
placed in his store last Saturday.
Another car of leather was received
at the tannery Saturday night from
G. c. Warren to be finished for mar
ket
w G. McClintock, Supt. of the For
est Park Stock Farm at Brandon was
in town Thursday and Friday of last
week.
Mrs. W. F. Churchill and Mrs. Ida
Churchill went to New York Monday.
and expect to be absent about two
weeks.
A. A. Pike and Walter Benson, the
parties who make up the Stowe firm
of FIEe q Benson, we're in town yes
terday.
Addison Hill, while at work in the
woods last Thursday, had his right
foot severely injured by a log falling
upon it.
Walter Hill is clerking in Geo. S.
Houghton & Co.'s grocery store, and
seems to fill the position very ac-
ceptably.
Miss Mary Minott celebrated her
ninth birthday last evening, being
assisted by quite a large gathering
of her young friends. The evening
passed very pleasantly.
That dinner set and table cloth
that figured at Gould Camps birth
day feast, several weeks since, has
been presented to his cousin, Mrs.
Frank Arms of Hardwick.
Claude NJ. Fisher was inducted into
the behind the scenes mysteries of the
Morrisville post Office Monday, and
will be kept busy for some time in
getting the boxes located.
Tue Portland Street Whist club
held their first meeting in the N. E.
O. ?. hall Thursday evening, there
being y present. This club will
meet every Thursday evening for II
weeks.
W. z. Flanagan wears a pleasant
look these days, Indicative that the
laundry work is coming his way all
right. Home industries should be
looked after first, the rest of the
world afterwards.
Early next week Mrs. C. Il. SIocum
aud Miss Carrie Powers go to New
- ana thence to Washington.
May the trip be a pleasant one to
them is the good wish extended by
Morrisville people.
On Thursday afternoon, Jan. IS,
the ladies of the Universalist society
will meet in the church parlors. The
usual dime supper will be served at
half-past five. Everyone cordially
invited to be present.
The remains of Mrs. Horace Grout,
who died at the home Of her daugh-
ter in Randolph, were brought here
last evening and placed in the Pleas
ant View receiving vault. The fun
eral was held at Randolph.
Call on Col. Doty. He has "some-
thing" 10 business way,"|to un-
fold" We. are not going to give it
away, but simply say it will give you
a better nights rest. That is agood
deal. Speak to him about it.
Harry Smith and Clayton Baldwin
of Cady's Falls are the proud posses
sors of the pelt of the grand patri-
arch of the fox tribe, which weighed
1Sa pounds and measured five feet
from tip to tip before stretching.
The Duplicate Whist Club met at
Hotel Lamoille hall last Thursday
evening, thirteen tables being neces-
sary to accommodate the players.
This week Mrs. 6. W. Doty and Miss
Alice Doty act as entertainers. The
place of meeting will be the same dur
ing the whist season and Thursday
evening the time.
The Woman's Club met Monday
evening, January Is at the Library
rooms. A paper on Louis XVIII"
was read by Miss Thompson and one
on Charles X" written by Mrs.
Henry s. George, was read by Mrs.
W. F. Steel4. Mrs. II. p. Muuson
presented an excel mt paper on "Tol-
eration," which was followed by an
interesting discussion.
The tannery at Bethel has been
burned. The Morrisville plant so far
has been able to care for the Water
bury plant, and if necessary will look
after the Bethel interests, if it so
elects. "Ned" Webster's shoulders
are broad and able to carry any load
that fellow tanners mayimpose. The
News AND CITIZEN has not consulted
him in the matter, but knowing his
generous spirit, freely vouches for
generous response to an appeal for
aid. That is the Morrisvlle way of
it.
By the will of tie late Col. Darius
j. Stafford his daughter, Mrs. Cora
Stafford Agan, had life use of the
estate, the residence going TO bis
heirs, after the payment of $1,000 to
the Congregational church and $500
TO the Centennial Library of this
town. A settlement was reached
Yesterday. by which the church and