News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-04-29
JOHNSON.

lington last Friday.
Frank Stearns visited friends in
CraftSbury last week.
Miss Carrie Stevens has returned
from a visit to Fair Haven.
Miss Florence Terrill passed Sunday
and Monday at her homein Underhill.
Miss Josie Hodgkins, has gone to
Stowe, where she will teach this sum-
mer.
Low mass will be held at the Opera
House next Sunday morning at 8
o'clock.
Mrs. E. W. Wild and son of Elmira,
n. Y. is visiting her sister, Mrs. f. g..
Bicknell.
Mrs FL. A. Jackson of Waterville
visited her daughter, Mrs. Thomas,
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Morgan from
Wolcott visited at Sanford Kenfield's
last week.
The Ladies Missionary society will
meet Friday afternoon with Mrs. 5.
A. Andrews.
Mrs. Ella Ellsworth of Morrisville
visited her father, V. A. Patch, the
the first of the week. " s~q
Emmett Fay has rented his fathers
farm. His father, Joseph Fay, will
move to Cambridge.
Miss Anna MCGOWAN from Fairfield
was the guest of Mrs. c. G. Rogers
Friday and Saturday.
Mrs. C. P. Jones is quite i'll and
Miss Sophia Cowles is also suffering
from an attack of the grip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sherman from Cam
bridge were guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lewis Wareham last Thursday.
Pearl Hodgkins is driving very
fine looking span of iron grey horses
which he has recently purchased.
George Elwood and Abram Nolan
are improving their houses on lower
Main street by fresh coat of paint.
81. E. Cutler will make the photo
graphs for the Normal school class
this spring. Read his ad. in this issue.
Hollis Mudgett is moving his family
to Stowe. Mr.. Sweet, who has bought
Mr.. Mudgett's farm, has taken posses
sion.
Mr.. ana Mrs. Fl. W. Stevens visited
their daughter, Mrs. Louise Wilson,
in Fair Haven, Vt. They returned
Monday.
Miss Mae Kennedy of tie Senior
class OF the Normal, went to her home
in Fairfax Saturday, remaining until
Wednesday.
Do not overlook Nye's advertise
ment. He calls special attention to
clothing and can give remarkable
bargains on suits.
Religious services were held in dis
trict No. II last Sunday and will be
held in No. next Sunday; conducted
by Rev. E. G. French.
Misses Sawyer, Smith and Nichols
and Mrs. Sault, teachers from st.
Johnsbury, visited the Normal and
Training schools last Friday.
David Holdridge, who has been in
very poor health all winter is failing.
His daughter, Mrs. Willard Boyes,
from Saranac, N. Y, is here helping
to care for him.
George Mills has gone to Essex
Jun 3tion, where he has a contract to
build a house for Chesley Hartwell.
The lumber for the house was got out
at Parker & Stearns' mill.
III. Arthur Lee OF Springfield, Mass,
passed Saturday and Sunday with his
grandmother, Mrs. Mary Morgan.
Mr.. Lee was on his way to Eden,
where he is to teach this summer.
Henry Porter had the misfortune
to lose one of his horses last week.
He was driving a span when they be-
came frightened and ran and one
stumbled and fell, breaking it's leg,
and making it necessary to shoot it.
The suit brought by the town
against Murray Buck to recover pay
ment for sewer, was tried last We'd
nesday before F. FL. Raymore and a
jury composed of gentlemen from
Hyde Park. The verdict was in favor
OF the town. F. FL. Bicknell for the
town and B. A. Hunt for Buck.
V. A. Patch met with an accident
last Tuesday as he was driving from
East johnson. His horse was going
very fast and he met Nye's delivery
team in the bridge and in turning out
his wagon struck a board and threw
him out, breaking two ribs in his
right side and bruising his face badly.
He held on to the horse however
until Mr.. Bicknell, who was with him,
could get to his head and stop him.
The crossbar and whiffletree were
broken, but no other serious dam
ages.
o. B. Landon met with a serious
accident on Monday. He was over to
the depot overseeing the unloading of
car of -four. He was standing in the
wagon placing the barrels, and the
front end of the rack becoming too
heavily loaded tipped up, throwing
some OF the barrels on to the horses,
which frightened them SO they start
ed for home on run. Mr.. Landon,
not having the lines, had no way of
controlling them and watching his,
opportunity jumped from the wagon.
The rack was soon thrown off and the