News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-06-17


Miss Mabel Collins is at Montpelier
attending Graduation exercises at
the Montpelier Seminary. Her sister.
Miss Delta, is a member of the grad
uating class.
Chas. Ril'y, with his wife and two
sons, from Proctor, are expected here
this evening. They come to spend a
couple of weeks vacation with rela-
tives and friends.
Mrs. G. FL. Johnson of st. Johns
bury was in town last week, looking
up tenement for the coming sum-
mer. Her husband is to again run
the "helper" engine.
Anthony McGinnis, Curriers' chauE
feur, was kicked four times this morn
ing by fractious horse. Anthony
is able to be about, but limps consid-
erably and is somewhat sorein spots.
If the weather is pleasant the Y. 2.
s. G. E. will serve ice cream and cake
Friday evening on the church lawn;
price 10 cts. Proceeds will be used
for the benefit of the church choir.
Everybody invited.
Gov. and Mrs. Page go to Boston
the last of the week and the first of
next week go to Northampton, where
they will attend the graduation exer-
cises OF Smith College, from which in
stitution their daughter, Miss Alice,
graduates.
Mr.. and Mrs. Y, D. Fitch have is
sued Invitations to the wedding of
their daughter, Miss Ellen and Lucius
Ell. Noyes. The event takes place at
"The Elms" Thursday, June 25 at
4 p. m. They will be lat home" af-
ter August 1st.
The Field Class met with Miss Brig
ham last Saturday, owing to rain.
interesting session was held. Next
Saturday the Wiswell woods is the
place ofrendt zVous, with Mrs. Ell. A.
Noyes as leader, who will talk about
"Tne Fertile 9tion of Flowers"
A special village meeting has been
called by the Trustees. on the written
petition of ten legal voters in writing,
to be held Thursday evening, June
25, at 7.30, TO see what action the
village will take with regard to OBJ
tanning a water supply and construct
ing a water system for domestic use
and fire protection.
Frank Boyes stepped on nail one
day last week while at work on his
contract job. necessitating cesse-
ton of work for few days. He re-
sumed duty Monday and notwith-
standing he was very lame, the nail
having gone into his foot, according
to his calculation, 21a inches, he COM
pleted the job the first of the week.
Surely the old stage barn is very
much improved with its new founda-
ton.
Walter Froidenberg of Weinheim,
Germany, who is in this country for
a short time, spent a day or two here
this week in calling on old friends.
Walter, whose father is an extensive
tanner, came here few years ago to
learn Pages method" in the hide
business. Since then he has served
a year and a half in the German army
and travelled extensively in this
country, to which he is quite well at
tached, not enough, however, to re-
nounce allegiance to faderland.
DR.. L. L. Eastman dislocated his
shoulder last Thursday night while
fishing up at Greenfield. He went
into Scofeld's mill to get out of the
rain and stepped into a hole which
threw him forward, striking on his
right shoulder. He was taken to Or
lin Spalding s who lives near by, and
a doctor summoned. bu5 none ar
rived until twelve hours after the ac-
cident. Dr. Bates set the shoulder
and on Saturday the patient was
taken to his home at North Hyde
Park.
From the American Florists Re-
view we take the follow wing:
John c. Leonard of the Leonard Seed
Co., Chicago, son of Mr.. S. F. Leonard,
were married June I6 to Miss Helen M.
Gale. Miss Gale is daughter of F. M.
Gale of the Bristol & Gale Co., imple-
ment Dealers Chicago. This announce
ment is the more interesting from the
fact that the firm of Bristol & Gale were
Old tune chicago SeGuSulSuJ hdNIuS hat
in the early eighties a considerable hold
upon the market gardeners of Chicago
and supplying both seeds and imple-.
ments to them, The firm was one of
the pioneer seed concerns of Chicago,
and continued this branch to 1884.
Rev. Mr.. Hagar had a paper at the
recent Copg'l state convention. His
subject was: What it is to be 81
Christian.
The speaker said that the ideal life
seems to be afar off as compared with
the things of the lower life and so it is
that often times one lives in the base
ment when he might just as well be liv-
ing in the upper story of life. The
Christian life begins first of all in self
surrender and the divine should become
the goal of the human. The degree to
which one lives up to the command
"Thou Shalt Love" is test of his
Christianity. One cannet love to order
but when he stands before the altogether
lovely it becomes a question only of
Welding to that influence or turning
away from it this is evolution. If
man has given himself over to the lower
influences he must pass through strug-
gle in entering the new life; this is rev.
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