News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-09-04
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extensive repairs upon his residence,
most noticeable being putting a large
cellar under the main part thereof.
Frank Boyes and F. E. Sawyer are
the workmen and a good job they
are doing.
Several from this place took in the
Labor Day" sports at Hardwick.
Hardwick shows commendable enter
prise in getting up a Labor Day"
celebration. 1t draws good crowd
which leaves a snug sum in the cof-
fers of the various business concerns.
People from this place and various
other parts of Lamoille County
will be pleased to learn that the new
Fair management will have the gate
at northwest corner of the grounds
opened, thereby saving a half mile
or more of travel through sandy and
dusty roads. 1t will be a good Fair.
Be sure to go.
School is moving along in good
shape. The attendance is large and
several new faces are seen among the
happy groups of scholars as they
wend their way along to the seat of
learning" 1t is pretty sight and
brings back to the "children of a
larger growth the times when they
were in the same category.
DR.. Lane, after spending several
days very pleasantly at the Phoenix,
in most agreeable company, returned
to his home at Ludlow Thursday.
The doctor is a very genial fellow
and made many friends here who
hope he will again visit this section,
even if the attractions may not be as
alluring as they were on this occa-,
sion.
The reception by the Y. P. S. c. e.
last Friday evening was a very pleas
ant affair. A. N. Camp sang a song,
Mrs. E. 6. Page and j. S. Leach gave
a vocal duett; Reba Noyes and Rev.
Mr.. HagPr read selections. Follow
ing this came a blackboard exercise
in which several took part and
proved very interesting. Ice-cream
and cake were served and a social
time followed.
One Joe Wells of Albany, was ar
rested last week for stealing several
windows, five in number, from an I'M,
occupied house belonging to Eugene
Wheeler of Wolcott. He was tried
before Justice Scribner Monday and
fined 500 and costs, amounting to,
$26. In default of paying the same
he was taken to Rutland Tuesday,
where he will work out his fine and
cost of transportation. Winter CLOTH
ing will be in fashion and shedding
tolerably good when Wells gets out.
Rev. 0. NJ. Boutwell, spent the,
greater part of last week in Franklin,
County. Tuesday and Wednesday
he attended the re-dedication of the,
M. E. Church at Enosburg Falls,
which was erected in 1874 through,
his instrumentality, he then being
the pastor. Tuesday evening he gave
an address of a reminiscent character.
Several thousand dollars have been
expended on the building and it is
now one of the finest in Northern
Vermont. A handsome pipe organ
has also been put in. Friday the,
Elder spent with friends at St.
Adams.
Rev. Mr.. Hager, who has been sup
plying as pastor here during Rev. Mr.,
Taylor's vacation, left town this
morning. He will spend few days
at Roxbury, where he preached last
summer, and then go to Deerfeld,
Mass, his home, for short visit be-
fore returning to Union Theological
Seminery in New York for his last
years work. During his stay here
Mr.. Hager made friends with every,
body. As preacher he gave excel
lent satisfaction and drew large au-
diences by his interesting, earnest
and practical discourses, while in q
social capacity he has a faculty of
making friends with all with whom
he comes in contact. He takes with
him the best wishes of all.
A telegram received here from
Acton. Mass, last Wednesday an
nounced the death by drowning of
Miss Lillis Mcclure, a young lady
who had been in the employ of Mrs.
+. G. Page the past two years. She
was very estimable lady and had
made many friends here. She lost her
, life by trying to save that of her five
2 year.old nephew, who had fallen into
, a mill pond. The remains were
= brought to her home in Albany, w.
= where the funeral, which was largely
attended, was held last Saturday.
The Worcester Telegram gives the
following account of the sad acci-
: dent -
= Homer J. Stone was playing with several
r other children on the shore of "Shady Mill
Pond " directly back of the house about 130
p. m, Wednesday, the 2Sth, when he fell in.
2 The water near the bank was three feet deep.
Attracted by the cries of the children for help,
Miss Mcclure ran to the pond followed by
} others and without a moments hesitation
]. plunged in after her nephew, whom. she grab
| bed in her arms, but the bank being abrupt
at that point she slid into deeper water and
sank. By this time quite crowd had gath
, cred, but not a swimmer among them, and
= before them, almost within their reach they
were obliged to see Lils, with Homer still
grasped in her arms, sink the last time. Some
D Of the other children ran for the boys father,
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