News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-05-29

meeting with Mr.. and Mrs. A. Ell.
Calkins at Cady's Falls, Saturday,
June Is, 1901.-Per order of Com
mittee.
MIR. and Mrs. Fred NJ. Gale of Chi
cago, announce the engagement of
their niece, Belle Gertrude Scribner to
Herbert Eaton Skinner of Kansas
City. The wedding is to take place
in June.
About forty from this place attend
ed the Business Mems entertainment
at Morrisville last Thursday evening.
Opinion is somewhat divided as to
the merits and demerits of the enter
tainment.
A letter from Geo. f. Parker at the
hospital in Burlington to friends here
states that he is able to sit up in bed
a short time each day and hopes to
be able to be up and dressed in few
days more.
The "opera house" has been clean
ed up for to morrow. S5lectman
Noyes has put it in the best shape
possible. Perhaps sometime this
town may have good place for pub
lie gatherings.
G. NJ. Wiltshire of Barre was 10 this
place Tuesday, calling on old friends
and looking over the scenes of his
youthful days. Millard now holds
lucrative position in a dry goods
store at the "granite city"
The Rebekahs had very interest
ing meeting last night. Mesdames
Waite and Denio were present and
gave detailed reports of the recent
Rebekah assembly at Bradford. Miss
Dora Fairbanks was installed Sec'y.
Fred Keller and Enos Sherwin at
tended meeting of the "Mystic
Shrine" at st. Johnsbury last Friday
night. The camels were in good trim
and meandered over the hot sands of
the desert with just the same alacrity
as of old.
F. L. Temple of Westminster, land
scape gardener, is here for the pur-
pose of "beautifying" the grounds
about various residences. Mr.. Tenn
pile is an artist and under his skillful
manipulations makes the waste places
beautiful.
Hot dinners at the church dining
rooms tomorrow Decoration Day..
Let the village folks all go in and dine
with those from outside and make
the occasion social one. The ladies
Z viii give YOU q r3using good mAal
} for only fifteen cents.
Rev. Mr.. Hagar will arrive this
week and next Sunday morning as
sumo his duties as supply at the
j Congl church for the next two
months. In the evening he will
preach the baccalaureate sermon be-
fore the L. c. A. graduating class.
Annual village meeting occurs Tues
day evening, June 4. The warning
( contains various articles, among
, them are sewerage, water works,
r metering the day electric power, etc.
The meeting will no doubt be an i'm
portant one and every taxpayer in the
corporation should be present.
r Chas. Cooper, who fell thirty-two
feet through a bridge at Swanton
some six weeks ago, breaking two
J ribs and receiving other injuries, is
J still at Swanton in the care of that
town. He expects to go back to Eng
: land as soon as he can. The hide
q house boys here have made up a
! purse for him.
The case of Jane Noyes vs.. the Viii
. lage of Hyde Park was argued before
: the Supreme Court at Montpelier last
Friday. W. l.. Burnap appeared for
Noyes; Hulburd and Powers for the
village. This is the famous case
. brought by the Noyes people against
having their property placed in the
J village. The decision of the Court is
anxiously awaited.
The Memorial Day exercises will
: begin at 10 a. M, at which time pro-
: cession will form and headed by No.
Hyde Park Drum Corps march to the
: village cemetery, where the graves
! will be decorated. Returning to the
# Town Hall, Lincoln's Gettysburg ad-
dress will be delivered and adjourn
t ment taken for dinner. At l. 80 the ex-
: ercises in Town Hall will take place.
y Besides the Grafton by G. M. Powers
e an interesting program has been pre-
pared and indications are that it will
9 be the best observance of the day
= this day has ever had. Everybody
], earnestly invited to attend.
n The estate of Peter Agan was
closed up Saturday and the So, ,673.'
!. SO has been divided as follows :
n $4,000 to f. L. Noyes for looking
!, after Peters finances several years
4 $500 for various claims presented
and $4,000 to the town. This latter
J.. amount must by law be used foI
. school purposes. The claim of Mrs
! Della Hassam and Mrs. Ella BLY, o.
= Northfeld to be nieces of Peter were
. found to be untrue, and that Peter
had not relative in the world was
u a settled fact. Mrs. Hassam appears
e to have been inveigled into the casC
It through Misrepresentation and has
t so stated to Col. Sawyer, the attor
ney for the town. The case has beer
Ie an interesting one throughout anC
1t for its successful termination mucl
y credit is due the Colonel, who has haC