News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-12-24
JOHNSON.

school in Bellows Falls tor the hOll-
days.
Mrs. E. A. Field and son, Carroll,
are guests of Mrs. Fields brother, j.
L. Alger.
Mrs. Della Jones has gone to ST. AL
bans to visit her brother, Dea. Homer
Bentley.
J. r. Hill and wife have gone to
Proctor to visit their daughter, Mrs.
j. B. Kidder.
Mr.. Farman from Westfeld was a
guest at Benz amin Hovey's the last
of the week.
Cadet Sinclair of Norwich Univer-
sity is passing his vacation with
friends in town.
Arthur Stearns is home from his
school at Bordentown, N. j., for the
Christmas holidays.
Mrs. Samuel Wilson has returned
from visiting her niece, Mrs. Carrie
Davis in Worthwhile.
Miss Alice Gilbert from Westfield
visited several of her friends in town
the last of the week.
Ralph Stearns visited his grand
mother, Mrs. o. W. Stearns, in Nor
risville last Friday.
DIR. F. L Wells is passing the holi-
days at his home In Quebec. He will
return here January 5th.
Gihon Camp of Modern Woodmen
will meet the LIST and Sd Tuesdays of
each month at 6. A. r. hall.
George Partlow from Essex juno
ton visited his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Joel Partlow, the last of the week.
Mrs. Andrew Chase of Cambridge
has sold her farm and come here to
live with her daughter, Mrs. Berton
Mills.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Lan6on are re-
ceiving congratulations over the
birth of a baby daughter, born last
Monday.
Miss Ella Edwards from Jefferson
vile was the guest of her cousin, Miss
Gallup, at the home of M. f. Gray
last week.
Prin. J. L. Alger is quite i'll and un-
able to be in school. Charles McFar-
land and Armand Jackson are also
on the sick list.
Mrs. George Partlow, who has been
visiting her mother, Mrs. Joel Part
low, returned to her home in Essex
Junction Monday. xk
The regulaY"veduesday evening
service at the M. E. church is put
over to Friday night of this week on
account of the Christmas tree.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Waterman
and son, Howard, returned Monday
from several days visit to their
brother, John Waterman, in Burling-
ton.
The Methodist society will have a
Christmas tree in the audience room
of their church Thursday evening.
Only the church and Sunday-school
are invited.
The next meeting of the Dread Lit
erary Club which was to have been
Jan. Sth, has been postponed on ac-
count of the week of prayer. Further
notice later.
Miss EIva Parkhurst, who has been
teaching in Randolph, passed several
days with her sister at the home of
T. A. Waterman, while on her way to
her home in No. Troy.
Mr.. and Mrs Lewis Wareham from
Cambridge have moved into a part
of Bert Mills house until their own
house, which is undergoing thorough
repair, is completed.
The News AND CITIZEN man will be
at the Johnson postoffice next Satur-
day to receive subscriptions. He
wants to see all of the papers old
friends and many new ones.
The graded school closed last Sat-
urday with Christmas exercises in the
afternoon. The two lower rooms
Joined in decorating a Christmas tree.
The Normal closed Tuesday for va
cation, lasting until Jan. 9th.
The Modern Woodmen elected at
their last meeting the following of
ficers:-V. c., Fl. M. Maxfield; A., Geo.
Maxfield; Clerk, Fred Holmes; Bank
er, D. ID. Holmes; Escort, Will Collins;
Waterman, II. c. Parker Sentry,
Will Coolidge.
r. 81. Powers came near losing his
dwelling house by fire one night last
week. The fire caught from an over
heated stove pipe and had made con-
Roadway when discovered.
The carpet and floor in theroom were
badly injured.
In letter received recently by Rev.
|. T. johnson from Rev. Harland
Smith of Boston, who held evangelis-
tic meetings here last winter. He
said that for the four weeks pre-
ceding they had had no fire in the
house; their only means of obtaining
being from small oil heater.
The Americans must be a good ma
tured sort of people to stand such
things as that. In some countries
they would make fuel of the coal OPP
thereby giving them a taste
Of what is before them In the future,
{ they do not mend their ways.
The New Liquor Law.