News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-12-03
LOCAL NEWS.
MORRISVILLE.

w. +. SImmOnds OF Eden was IN
town over Sunday.
The U. V. M. students returned to
Burlington Monday.
J. M. Foss and Walter Churchill
wen5 to Barnet last week on business.
B. A. Palmer of Wilder was in town
last Thursday, calling on relatives
and friends.
Harry Earle has finished work in the
asylum at Waterbury and returned
to his home here.
George OImsted has been working
in ]. S. Banister's grocery store for
the past two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vancour, parents OF
E. II. Vancour, passed Thanksgiving
with their son in this place.
Ralph Booth of Norwich University
passed Thanksgiving with his par
ents, Rev. and Mrs. |. P. Booth.
Mrs. H. L. Sayles of Richmond has
been visiting at the home OF Mr.. and
Mrs. j. M. Foss for several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Fl. Stay ton were
guests at the home of Rev. and Mrs.
F. B. Kellogg in Waterbury last
Thursday.
George B. Littel and family of Bur-
liugton passed Thanksgiving at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. II. A. Slayton
in this place.
Mrs. R. NJ. Hubbell of Wolcott was
a recent guest at the home OF her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. M. B. Eaton,
in this place.
Noyes Slayton, who has been pass
ing his vacation with his parents
here, returned to his school in Bur
lington Monday.
DR.. W. L. Adams, manager of the
Forest Stock farm at Brandon, was
in town over Sunday, the guest OF his
sister, Mrs. F. A. Cutting.
W. M. Sargent returned from his
trip to st. Paul, Mimi, and other
western points last Wednesday. lie
reports very pleasant trip through
out.
Harry Peck, who has been in Bos-
ton for the past few years, has been
visiting relatives in town for several
DAYS. He will visit in Swanton be-
fore returning to Boston.
Ralph o. Sherwood, who recently
went to Boston, is employed by the
Boston Elevated Railway Company.
He has been appointed to the position
of brakeman on the elevated trains.
Alton G. Littel, who visited friends
in town several days last week, has
finished work in Sheldon and has en-
tered the employ of A. R. Cowles, as
salesman for organs and pianos, with
headquarters at Enosburg.
The second P. A. basket ball team
went to Hyde Park last Thursday
evening and played the regular L. G.
A. team. The game was evenly con-
tested but the latter team got the
best end of it by score of II to 10.
The feature of the game was the work
done by Clarence Smith for Morris
vile. "Smithy' is alright at any
game.
About thirty couple attended the
dance given by the young men of
Morrisville at town hall last Wednes-
day evening. The music furnished
by Young's Orchestra of st. Johns
bury was first class in every particu-
lar. At II O'Clock a banquet was
served at the Randall, which was
fully up to the high standard of ex-
cellence for which this hotel enjoys a
merited reputation.
John Emerson of Jacksonville was
in town last Friday and made this
Office pleasant call. Mr.. Emerson
is in possession of a copy of the La
noble Newsdealer, printed at Hyde
Park on June 25, 1868, S. How
ard publisher. 1t was six column,
four page sheet and, being printed in
those eventful days of the Civil War,
contains many interesting features.
On the first page are two interesting
letters from soldiers, and pertinent
remarks by Artemus Ward on the
events of the war and other subjects.
Under the head of marriages appears
the following of local interest In
Elmore, May "a, by Rev. A. B. Rey-
nolds, Mr.. Harrison E. Lewis of Nor
ristown and Miss Ellen R. Smith of
Gilmore. In the business card column
appear the cards of Hendee & Burke
and Powers & Gleed of Morrisville
and Child & Brigham of Hyde Park
well-known law firms of those days.
The advertising columns were we'll
patronzed and among Others was
noticed the advertisements of s. M.
Pennock, S. B. Clark and D. A. Gil
bert of Morrisville and A. R. Camp,
ID. I. Straw and T. F. Barnes of
Stowe.
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