News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-02-20
LOCAL NEWS.
MORRISVILLE.

dU 1OWh 11dll W.
night and to- morrow night.
W. W. Peck was in Montpelier
Thursday and Friday last transact
ing business.
By reading all of the ads in this
paper to-day you may learn some
thing to your advantage.
81. M. Rich is instructor of Dumb
Bell class formed at the Gym to meet
every Tuesday and Thursday even
ing at s O'Clock.
Prof. and Mrs. W. A. Beebe will
give a reception to the students OF
Peoples Academy next Friday eveni
ing at their residence.
Geo. Tillotson returned home from
Pike Station, N. H., last Thursday
called here by the illness and death OF
Mrs. Tillotson's father.
The fifth number in the Business
Mems Course of Popular Entertain
ments at Town Hall, Morrisville, will
be lecture by Thomas Dixon Jr., on
Monday evening, March 18th.
The grip and kindred troubles have
made business brisk for drug stores
and physicians in Morrisville during
the past few weeks, with resulting
fatalities comparatively few.
G. S. Gooding of NEWS AND CITIZEN
last Thursday received a dispatch
containing the sad news that Mrs. M.
s. Davenport, his mother-in-law, at
Geneva, N. Y, had died that day,
The Gun Club held another long
range rife practice shoot Saturday
afternoon. The scores were nothing
to mention" but the fun of pulling
the trigger" was enjoyed just the
same.
Charles E. Ashcroft has rented the
house until lately occupied by George
M. Powers in this village. Mr.. Ash
croft will soon move here with his
family from Waterbury. He is presi-
dent and general manager of the
National Mining and Development
Company.
Henry George has resigned his posi-
ton as ieweler at the store of A. R.
Campbell and with his family goes to
Attleboro, Mass, where he has Sc
cured a position. In Morrisville
they have the friendship of all with
whom they are acquainted and their
removal herefrom will be much re-
GREETED.
Charles Arnold, one of the firm of
Arnold Granite Company, now in
control of the granite sheds here,
has become full.feded Morrisvillite
He has moved, bag and baggage,
with his family, from Hardwick to
Morrisville and begun house keeping
on Summer street. They are welcome
additions to the business and social
circles of this lively village.
How many young men there are
who live in country villages like
Morrisville who at this season of the
year find themselves with much lei
sure time ON hand, and go moping
about unable to find real and satisfy
ing amusement. There is little en-
tertainment here of a public charac,
ter, goodness knows, but the right
minded fellow will not depend upon
this. He will find within himself the
means both for his personal enjoy
ment and for the attainment of his
highest ambitions. AS for reading
Morrisville has a good library and no
young man should fail to take adj
vantage of the handsome opportun-
tiles thus placed so easily within his
reach.
A rare intellectual treat was fur
nished by Prof. Beebe at the hall in
Peoples Academy last Friday eve
ming. He gave an illustrated lecture
for the especial benefit of his astron.
ony class but invited all others inter.
ested in that subject. The weather
was severe that evening but it did not
prevent large number from attend.
ing the lecture at the close of which
all present felt well repaid for Drawing
the storm. Prof. Beebe spoke for an
hour and half upon the principal
features of the solar, cometary and
stellar systems. Views upon large
canvass at the front of the platform
were produced by stereopticon op
Grated by M. B. Eaton. The lecturer
was felicitous aud retained the close
attention of his hearers from begin
ming to end upon a subject that il
"dry" to the majority of people wher
handled by a speaker less gifted thar
Prof. Beebe.