News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-12-09
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Mrs. II. Mayo has been visiting her
daughter in Mortified.
A. Lemiaux of Plattsburg, N. T.,
was in town yesterday.
j. j. Vearen and wife were visitors
in Montpelier Thursday.
Fred Bashaw made business trip
to Burlington Saturday.
Miss Mabel Carr visited her home
in Montpelier over Sunday.
A. A. Pike transacted business in
Burlington last Wednesday.
School at the Forks, Miss Page OF
Groton teacher, opened Monday.
G. e. and F. O. Burt finished night
work at their steam mill last week.
j. E. Houston madea business trip
to Burlington and vicinity last week.
Eliakim Bigelow has sold his farm
on the West Branch to Charles Ram
son.
E. T. Houston of Waterbury visit
ed his parents at the Forks over Sun
day.
Uncle Ben Gibbs is very poorly at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. Steb-
bins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leach of So. Lancas-
ter, Mass, are visiting relatives in
town.
F. G. Bashaw has purchased Ed Ed
sons newly built house west of the
village.
Mrs. Eta Haselton and Miss Helen
Smalley were visitors in Burlington
Friday.
Lewis Latuch has a very painful
hand, the wound being caused by a
splinter.
John Whittemore and Milo Riddle
of Boston were guests of W. F. Ben
son the first of the week.
Monroe Dodge, who is employed III
the prison at Weathersfield, Conn.,,
visited his Stowe friends last week.
]. Fl. Sisters has gone to Fitchburg,
Mass, where he has employment in
the offices of the N. Y, M. & Il. r. R
Co.
Shelves were arranged for 3600vol-
umes in the library and reading room
in the Memorial Building last week,
and the books will soon be moved.
The postoffice was changed to it's
new quarters in the Akeley Memorial
Building yesterday. and iG is safe to
wager that there is not a handsomer
office in Vermont.
The annual spelling contest for the
Hersey cup will be held at the audi
forum Friday evening. Teams from
Morrisville Academy and Stowe High |
School will compete.
Many of his former parishioners
here attended the funeral of Rev.
s. f. Drew at Waterbury this after
noon. Mr.. Drew had large number
of warm friends in Stowe.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the M. E church will meet
with Mrs. Elenora Wilkins Thursday,
Dec. IT, at $50 p. m. There will be
the quarterly opening of mite boxes
and lea will be served.
William Sweetzer is serving a three
months sentence at the House of Cor
rection having plead guilty to the
charge of furnishing Amos Towne
with firewater. William was escorted
to Rutland by Deputy c. E. Burt.
A big leak In the main pipe of the
village water system has been caus-
ng a vast deal of trouble the past
ew days. Part of the village has
oeen entirely without water and, in
spite of lots of digging the leak has
not been found.
The Cong'l and Unity church So
,ieties wish to extend thanks to all
who assisted in the Elite Lady Minis
jrels, making it such a pleasing and
successful entertainment. To Miss
Brenda Harris, of Morrisville, who
10 kindly assisted them, they extend
most hearty thanks and desire to ex
press their full appreciation of the
of the part assigned her.
The Rev. s. F. Drew, retired Con.
clergyman, died at his
nome In Waterbury, early Sunday
morning from the effects OF apoplexy.
The funeral was held this afternoon
at 2 O'Clock. The officiating clergy
men were the Rev. F. B. Kellogg and
the Rev. l.. Fl. Elliott of Waterbury.
Mr.. Drew was 80 years old, being
BORN in Tunbridge, Oct. II, 1921.
He was graduated from Dartmouth
college; Hanover, N. H., in the class
Of 1S4S and later from Lane Semin-
ary, Cincinnati, Ohio. He had been
n the ministry for forty years. His
irst passionate was in Cabot, where
he preached eleven years. He went
rom there to the west and later wen