News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-10-22
LOCAL NEWS
WORTHWHILE.

Ing.
A regular meeting of the W. R. c..
was held in the G. A. r. hall Satur-
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs W. j. Utton and
daughter are in Barton this week
visiting friends.
A small crowd were present at the
calico social at N. E. o. P. hall last
Saturday night.
Mrs. HI. W. Pierce from Oxford,
Miss, has been visiting at the home
OF W. S. Daniels.
Postmaster Fisher expects to move
to the new post Office in the browne
block the last of the week.
Miss Lou Rand, who has been pass
ing the summer at Old Orchard Beach,
returned home last Saturday.
Miss Mary Barrows, who is teach
ing in cambridge, passed Sunday
with her mother, Mrs. E. A. Barrows.
All of the village teachers, eight in
number, leave to- morrow for Bellows
Falls to attend the Teachers lnsti
| tute.
F. j. Smalley went last Thursday
evening to Iowa, on his regular horse
buying trip. He will be away about
two weeks.
Time is short in which you can
pay your taxes, and save four per
cent discount; Please call in and pay
your taxes.
W. j. Utton raised 13 bushels of
good popcorn in his garden the past
season. Wick" allows that this is
a record breaker.
G. j. Thomas has moved his family
from the Cutler house on Bridge
street to the r. C. Paul house on
Summer street.
The young men of the Eworth
League will serve an oyster supper
in the M. E. vestry sometime next
week. Watch for bills.
George Battye, an employe in the
tannery, has purchased the Morrill,
house on the A. B. Munson road and
has taken possession.
L. A. Kinney has returned to Nor
risville and began work Monday
morning in F. M. Ober's box factory.
He is much improved in health.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. G. HoIbrook and
son of Barnet have IN visiting at
the home OF Mrs. 10 ook s parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John D' als, forseveral
days.
n. b. Bryant iss..til gand attefd-
ing the dedication o! he new Mason
ic Temple, which occd Is to-day. They
have the finest local temple OF any
town in Vermont.
The exterior of the depot is receiv-
ing coat of paint. The carpenter
work on the interior is fast nearing
completion and the fittings for steam
heat are ready for connection.
Wesley Goldthwaitb, who is EN-.
plOyed in Utton's stable, received
quite a severe kick on one OF his
knees Monday, while helping up
horse, which was cast in his stall.
Albert Terrill's team of farm horses
took an unguided excursion yester-
day afternoon from Slayton's feed
store to Academy Park, via Union
and Summer streets. No casualties
Orrie Hoyt, who has been carrying
on Fred Smalley's farm on Dorches-
ter Heights for the past year, has
vacated the same and moved to the
home of his father on Park street.
E. G. Ross will carry on this place for
the coming year and moved there
yesterday.
A regular meeting of Rathbone
Lodge, No. "a, K. of p, was held
Monday evening, with a good num-
Der in attendance. Work was done
on the second and third ranks. Next
meeting next Monday evening when
special business will come before the
lodge and a large attendance is de-
sired.
Word has been received here of the
death of Andrew James, which oc-
Cured at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. l. A. White, in Burlington, last |
Saturday. Mrs. Eliza Thrasher of |
this place is also a daughter of the
deceased. Mr.. James made his home |
in Morrisville more or less during Mr..
Whites residence here and made
many friends here who will much re-
gret to learn of his death.
Herman Lamphere, one of our ris-
ing young farmers, living on the Ell
more road, was the victim of disas-
ferrous runaway Monday afternoon.
His horse, which was standing by II.
Waite's store. became frightened and
started at full speed directly toward
one of the plate glass windows in the
Combination Bargain store. Jeffer-
son Churchill was standing directly
in front of the window and the horse
turned on the walk, between the tele-
phone pole and the store, and ran di-
rectly down the walk past Wilson's
store and across the depot steps. He
then turned up the track and ran
past the depot and around the water
tank and back on the south side to
SlaytOn's store where it collided with
another team. The horse was not
seriously injured but the wagon,
nearly new top buggy, faired less for
tunately and was badly demolished,