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

The street sprinkler is taking a
vacation.
The Academy boys will play ball at
Hyde Park Saturday.
Misses Blanche Foss and Edith
Dodge passed Sunday in Stowe.
Arthur Titus of Hardwick was
guest at the home of Mrs. E. }. Hall
over Sunday.
Mrs. H. NJ. Gordon has returned
from Lynn, Mass, after an absence
OF several weeks.
Bedell G Son have added several
fine new CARRIAGES to their already
well equipped livery.
It's "Old" why that picture in
Sanborn's show case causes so much
favorable comment.
There are advertised letters at the
post-office for Chas. A. Dow, Frank
Reed and Mrs. Geo. Ives.
Miss Ida Norton of this office and
Mrs. 7. H. O'Brien went to Water
bury to-day to be absent over Me-
mortal day.
Attend the Memorial Day exercises
tomorrow. A good address may be
ex pected from Edmund C. Mower, Esq.
There will also be appropriate music
by a female quartette.
Owing to the inclemency of the
weather, or some other reason, the
attendance at the Old Home Week
meeting was not remarkably large.
Or course it was not from any lack of
interest on the part of our citizens.
Judge Powers, as attorney for D.
Fl. Lewis, cashier of the broken Yer
gennes bank, met Lewis at st. Johns
bury last Wednesday and then went to
Vergennes, where the matters pertain
ing to Lewis Indictment we're dis
cussed.
W. 0. Benedict, the new superin-
tendent at the tannery, has rented
the Enos Hill house on Main street.
His household goods arrived from
Little Falls, N. Y, Monday and he
expects to be settled in his new home
in a.few days.
IL looks as though Morrisville
would furnish her quota of public
speakers tomorrow, G. M. Powers
delivering the address at Hyde Park
A. A. Niles. Esq. at Hinesburgh, while
F. G. Fleetwood holds forth at Barre.
A very quotable trio surely.
The population of Pleasant street
were startled Monday morning by
the smudge caused by a chimney
\ Dul4ing out on the Morse residence
This is the second scare caused by de.
fective chimneys in the past month
| What's the matter with the fire ward
ems? 1t is their business to inspect
the chimneys at least once year.
The entertainment course for the
coming season embrace the following
numbers The Almondbury hanC
bell ringers, 162 bells, Oct. "a. Lee
ture by Gen. q. 7. Sweeney, ex-consu
at Constantinople, Nov. 81. The
Metropolitan Star Quintet, Jan. IA
Kreiger, the Wizards Kurious Kom
pany, Jan. 30. Lecture by G. A. Gear
hart, Feb. 13.
Mrs. Florence Gates, after an ex
tended visit with friends in Morris
vile, went to Fletcher Tuesday, where
she will spend sometime with hel
adopted daughter, Mrs Lillian Chase
Mrs. Gates will go later to Kirksville
Mo-, to be present at the graduation
of her son, Oscar, from the American
School of Osteopathy, which occurs
the first of July.
Messrs. Shepard and Bartlett O.
Derry, N. H., directors of the Noun
Mansfield railroad, were here las
Wednesday and expressed themselves
as greatly pleased with the remarka
BILE advantages offered for extending
the electric road from Stowe to thi
place. The road has got to com
and Morristown can be relied upon tt
do it's share towards getting it here.
What might have been a very in
teresting blaze was started in a rea
room in the Dwinell pharmacy las
Sunday morning. 1t was started b.
a blaze from a kerosene stove anC
when discovered by Harley, hat
changed the complexion of the wood
work around one window, beside
doing some damage to goods. Th
fire alarm was sounded but the fame
we're squelched by the application o
few pals of water. Lucky for the fire
insurance company, the town an
the druggist.
, MorriStOyyn Grand List.