News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-05
NORTH HYDE PARK.

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Mrs. Edgar Pratt wss on the sick list
the past week
Henry Mudgett and SONS have the
best barn in Johnson. If you don't be-
lieve it, look it over.
Mrs. Frank Whitcomb is reported as
on the gain. May the report prove
true is the wish of her many friends.
! Rev. George Manning supplied the
| desk in Advent church Sunday fore
i noon, Mr.. Gregory being absent. A
good attendance and interesting dis
course.
Rev. Mr.. Boardman of Barnet, adj
dressed a large audience in Cong'l
church Sunday afternoon. We under
stand there is an effort being made to
retain him for the present.
The Woman's Missionary Society will
give a Harvest Supper at the Cong'1
vesrty, followed by a Social at E. w.
Smiths, Friday, Nov. I4th, instead of
the 9TH, as announced last week.
VIM. Hodges has sold part of his
sugar place to Carlos Eastman and
Lawrence Foss, including sugar tools.
Consideration unknown to us you will
have to ask Bros. Sargent or Gallup to
know for sure.
Justus Foss, P. A. Parrin, Leon Bailey
and others have done themselves credit
in the way of sidewalks on Maple Street
the past week. Good job, well done,
and will be appreciated by all that can't
swim or don't wear rubber boots.
There has been much neighborhood
visiting during the past week. Mrs.
Ferguson, Mrs. Hodges, Mrs. Warren,
Mrs. Eastman and many others we have
noticed on the sidewalks and in the
mud. We have made no inquiries and
not been present at any of their gather
ings, therefore can't report their doings
Understandings or truthfully, SO will
omit saying much about it.
D. o. Sargent, who resided on John
son Plain, and who had been in poor
health for long time, died Wednesday
morning. Mr.. Sargent was respected
citizen of Johnson and leaves wife and
three children to mourn the loss of a
kind husband and a respected father.
The funeral services we're held at the
home on Friday, Rev. l. P. Booth of
Morrisville, officiating, and B. L. Austin
of Johnson, in charge. The remains
were taken to Stowe for burial, it being
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spent his boyhood days. There was a
bors to bid adieu to one they loved
besides several Grand Army men, Of
which he was member.
Real estate transfers are not very
common in this vicinity these days. R.
c. Cristy recently sold his home farm
located about two miles west of North
/ Hyde Park village, including stock,
hay, farming tools and good will to a
gentleman by the name of Patterson
| Fl ON kersfeld-immediate possession
given. MIR. Cristy who first saw daylight
on said farm and spent over seventy
years of his manly life thereon, has been
constant reader Of the News AND CIT
ZEN from its infancy, and always paid
100 cents on the dollar. He moves his
effects to Johnson village, into the tene-
ment he purchased last spring on Rail
road Street, where he will be pleased to
see and entertain his old friends in
royal style as IN the past.
Sam Scribner, who lives less than a
hundred miles from Johnson Plain, re-
Gently thought he would embark in the
fur business, both for fun and the profit
there was in it. So he shouldered his
trusty gun and proceeded to business.
He had gone but short distance when
he espied a black and white animal,
about the size of a small spaniel dog.
He Immediately withdrew the shot from
the cartridge, so as not to damage the
pelt, as he had often heard that Gov.
Page and Squire Lanpher, the leading
furriers of this section, discounted five
cents a hole and that oftentimes the
pelt would not pay the damage. So he