News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-11-20


of which he is administrator.
There are now two vacancies in the
list of town officers. The death of
h. M. NOyes makes a vacancy in the
Board of Selectm and the removal
from town of C. L Gates, vacancy
in the School Board.
Chas. Whitcomb has the bills out
for a "turkey shoot" The event
comes off at Lawrence Sawyer's next
Saturday. There will be turkeys,
chickens and Belgian Hares. A good
time is promised all who attend.
Scofeld has had bis mill wired for
electricity. Another improvement
there is the building of an addition.
15x4S, to the warm storage room,
John is bound to have the best con-
veniences and everything up-to.date.
The Village Trustees bad a special
meeting Saturday evening, at which
time matters pertaining to the village
were discussed and acted upon. Sew
eral sewer bills were paid and work
upon the same has stopped for the
winter
P. T. DEMO has just turned out
two very handsome pairs of heavy
traverse sleds for a Connecticut GUS
toner. "Pret" puts up a good job
and his reputation for honest work
goes beyond the limits of local
acquaintance.
Lucius Noyes has decided to remain
at home and will take up his fathers
insurance business. Lucius is a very
popular young man and we have no
doubt he will retain all of his fathers
business patrons and add many
more. Success to him.
The work of drawing the balsam
trees to the depot is now under way.
They are for the Philadelphia Christ
mas trade. The snow hinders the
work somewhat and may prevent
getting the 5000 wanted. About
5000 have thus far been secured.
Prof. Ingalls, held Teachers Exami-
nation at Stowe Monday, at which
place one candidate put in an ap-
pearance. Examinations were held at
Jacksonville Monday and Tuesday;
ten were present there. At the exam
nations here last week seven applied.
The Home Culture Club had it's BIZ
monthly meeting last Thursday
afternoon at the church parlors. The
attendance was good. Besides the
usual committee work, there we're
readings by Miss A D. Sawyer and
Mrs. N. G. Wood from Stoddard's
"Grand Canons."
The village cemetery ought to have
a vault. With the weather such as
it was a week ago, and liable to be
at any time this winter, it seems al
most inhuman to deposit bodies in
the earth under such unfavorable cir
cumstances. A few hundred dollars
would build q vault in which could be
placed bodies until the ground was
suitable for burial. What say you,
Cemetery Association?
SeweIl Newton, the euphonious cor
respondent of the News AND CITIZEN,
visited the county seat last week and
dined with Sheriff Robbins. Sewell
allows if Gus takes half the care of
his prisoners as he does his guests,
they must fare pretty good. Well he
does; Gus makes no distinction ION
account of race, creed, color or pre-
viOus servitude" Guest or prisoner,
all are treated alike and we'll.
The winter term of schools in town
begin Monday, Dec. 2. The teachers
will be:-Academy, E. L Ingalls,, Mrs.
E. L. Ingalls,, Miss Blanche Brigham,
Miss LiIah Waite, Miss Ellen Fitch;
North HYDE Park, Misses Winifred
Rooney aud Vivian Bullard; Center
vile, Miss Edith Barcombe; Garfield,
Miss Carrie Laraway; Greenfield, Miss
Hannah Ives; Center, Miss Lessie
Davis; McKinstry Hill, A. E Horner;
Plains, Bundy and Barnes Districts,
transported.
An exhibition of "Life Moving
Pictures," E1ison's startling inven-
ton, is announced to come off at the
Town Hall, Thursday evening, Nov.
81, for the benefit of the Cemetery
Association. The program will be
made up of motion pictures, repre-
senting war scenes, boating scenes,
ride up Eiffel Tower, President Nc
Kinley at Buffalo delivering his last
speech and many other interesting
pictures serious and comic. The ex-
hibition comes highly recommended
and as they give a percentage of
receipts to the Cemetery Association
we bespeak for them a full house.
Admission % cents; family tickets of
four rs cents. Go!
Seven carloads of heavy machinery
have arrived here for the asbestos
mines in Eden and the work Of un-
loading from the cars and putting it
on sleds has been going on since
Monday. A part of it has been
started for Eden. Some twenty
horses are engaged in drawing,
among them ten handsome ones
from Montpelier with two pairs of
very heavy traverse sleds. Among
the machinery are two eight-ton boil
ers and a ten.ton stone crushers. lt
! was necessary to snow the depot hill
before the loads could be started.
Mr.. Wilcox has been giving personal
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