News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-02-13

MISS LiZHi6 Mig Vi w dUeIUuIJ hdS
accepted a position ia the telephone
office in Morrisville.
H. S. Tillotson of Morristown and
Erastus Mann of WolcOtt have been
granted an increase of pensions,
through the pension agency of A. A.
Niles.
Geo. P. DrOwne went to Boston
this morning in quest of new goods
and the latest ideas of modern mer
chandising.
Miss Nellie HadIey of Waterbury,
who is employed in the State HOspi-
tai there, is at home in MOrrisville,
called here by the illness of her sister,
Mrs. Edwin Booth.
Miss Alice Doty has gone to John
son to attend a lecture to be given
there this evening. She will be the
guest of her sister, Mrs. Ellen Jones,
while in that village.
A. A. Niles has received a letter from
his daughter, Miss LA Niles, with the
Nelson Opera Company, stating that
on March goth the company will sail
for London, England.
Another Morrisville boy who has
successfully linked his fortunes with
those of Albany, N. Y, is Gavin j
Tyndall, who is sengaged as stenogra-
pher by an automobile manufacturing
company.
When poor young man marries
a rich girl all the women say he is
mercenary, but when a rich young
man marries a poor girl, they say
such a love is the most beautiful thing
in the world. g..
At the Congregational Church next
Friday there will be held a missionary
meeting at. $3.50 a. m; annual meet
ing and election of officers of the
United Workers at 4:30; usual dime
supper, including vegetable hash, at
$50.
Miss Katherine Godbaut, who has
been at the home of Mrs. Gleed about
six years, has returned to her home
in Montreal and is succeeded by q TIA
Town. Lima Minor of Hyde Park
takes Miss Towns place at the home
of A. A. Niles. -
Mrs. 0 R. Luce went to Elmore yes
terday to assist in caring for her aged
mother who fell upon an ice.covered
sidewalk last Sunday and severely
injured one wrist and one ankle. 1t
is feared that she also may have
received internal injuries.
This paper last week stated that
"the M. s. Rosenberg & Co. stock of
clothing and furnishing goods was
sold on a chattel mortgage The
initial IS" in the name of the COM
pany should have been omitted. The
firm of NJ. s. Rosenberg & Co, at
Cohoes, N Y pays 100 cents on the
dollar.
According to disDensation from the
Grand Master, Mt. Vernon Lodge,
No. 8, F. & A NJ, will hold special
communication Wednesday evening,
Feb. 20, to ballot on petitions and
work the E A. degree. There will
also be special communication Fri
day evening, March 5, for work on the
F q. degree. Members of the order
Will please take notice and govern
themselves accordingly.
AL. Grant has a two-horse power
saving machine in operation at the
woodward on the corner ofUnion and
Court streets. With the assistance of
half a doz'n men he expects to finish
saving, chopping and piling, within
the next two weeks, seven hundred
cords OF good hard wood, which he
will keep until next winter, when it
will be well seasoned and will bring a
good price in the fuel market.
The astronomy class has arranged
to Illustrate with stereopticon views
at Academy III Ill, Friday evening,
commencing at 1870 O'Clock, the prin-
cipal features of the solar, cometary
and stellar systems. Attention will
be called to the accomplishments of
astronomers in the past and to the
problems which engage their atten-
tion at present. All interested in the
subject are invited. Admission 1Oc.
W. o. Rocheleau enroute to his
home atSwanton from st. Johnsbury
5 where he passed a few days with his
son Guy, who has been very ill with
, typhoid fever, stopped at Morrisville
and called on old friends. About
eleven years ago Mr.. Roceleau and
family came to Morrisville to reside.
He was engaged in the barber busi-
ness. Four years ago they removed
to Swanton. Mrs. Rocheleau is at
st. Johnsbury taking care of her son
J who is convslescing.
Geo. p. Drowne's hennery is out af-
ter fame and If it fails to succeed it
will be from no fault of the hens. G.
. p. has near-sighted biddy which
greedily devoured some saw dust re-
J Gently, supposing it to be corn meal.
The result was the laying of some bu.
: reau knobs which when subjected to
the usual setting process, Matched in.
Z. to a complete chamber set of modern
:, design. George is seriously eontem
!. plating the experiment of feeding
a near-sighted Mrs. Hen "Gold Dust
+ in view of producing a full aedged
t United States mint. Surely the 20tt