News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-21
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Advertised Letters :-Cbas. j. Fos-
ter, Edwin Sainear, Sherman Mig
nault, Stanistaw Rutkowski, Lena
jerks.
Bishop Hall is expected here some
time next month to confirm a class
of candidates for the Episcopal
church.
'. L. Blodgett is doing an exten-
sive job of carpenter work on the
farm buildings of Col. Mcfarland at
WaterviIle.
E. L. Ingalls, and wife of the State
Industrial School, we're visitors here
recently. As usual, their many old
time friends were glad to see them.
d r. s. Page, Ferd Gauthier and
Boynton Cheney have gone over on
Sterling, deer hunting. They antici-
pate great timt-deer or no deer.
Will any who wish a copy of the
Hyde Park Cook Book please leave
word at Sherwin's Drug Store, so that
decision may be made in regard to
new edition.
Col. Sawyer went to st. Albans to-
day, where he attended a reunion of
his old regiment, the First Vermont
Cavalry. The occasion was a very
pleasant one.
The final meeting of the creditors
of Frank Chandler, Worthwhile, bank
rupt, set for last Saturday before
Referee Mcfarland, was continued
for two weeks.
The ladies will meet with Mrs. Nc
Farland next Mondey evening, to
complete arrangements for the Rum
mage Sale, which will begin the first
week in November.
Chas. Goddard of So. birmingham,
Mass, is here for a ten days vaca-
tion. He will put in d little time in
hunting and has strong hopes of TAX
ing a Vermont deer back with him.
John Scofield has purchased the L.
P. jackson house on Main street.
This is the first frame house built in
this town--having been built in the
seventeen hundreds hy the late N. P.
Sawyer.
Rumor has it that the village au-
thorities have in contemplation box
ing up that antq1e watering trough
oa Main street, so as to protect its
symetrical beauty from the ravages
of Vermont winttr.
Fl. A. Nryes and wife and their
guest, ]. E. Petrie of Elmira, n. Y,
with Miss A. D. Sawyer, visi ed Mt,
Mansfield Tuesday. Although not
the best kind of a day for views, they
report very nice time.
Mrs. D. F. Fletcher met with seri-
Gus accident recently. While stand
ing in chair she fell backwards and
struck a pail of hot swill, scalding
her hands quite badly. Mrs. Pat'k
Kelley is caring for her at present.
The esther Club" composed of
members of the grammar dept OF the
l.. G. A., observe the birthday of each
member by social gathering. Last
Saturday was the birthday of their
instructor, Miss Butler, and the event
was becomingly celebrated that even
ing at Mrs. W. N. Putnam's.
In these days of Masonic anniver-
saries it should not be forgotten that
the first Masonic lodge in this section
was that organized in this town
away back in the early part of 1900
in Squire McDanie's tavern, down on
the Torrance Finnegan farm, west of
this village. From that lodge, Orange,
grew Mt. Vernon lodge of Morrisvilie.
An old subscriber in the west, in re-
newing his subscription to this paper,
says 1T contains much that is of in
tersst to me. Being an old Lamoille
county boy l naturally feel an inter-
est in what transpires at the old
home. Have resided in Kansas %
years and have lost but two or three
copies of the News AND CITIZEN in all
that time.
Thad Carmier, section man of this
place has filed his petition in insol-
vency. His liabilities are $3.50 IL;
assets $4,000 in household goods
which is exempt and $36 90 in cash
which has been assigned. The first
meeting Of creditors will be before
Referee Mcfarland at this place Sat-
urday, October 81, at 10 80 O'Clock
in the forenoon.
The Young Peoples Society will
hold an autumn social in the parlors
of the Cong'l church Friday evening
at eight o'clock. The Young Peoples
Society of Morrisville has been invited
to attend and all are asked to come
decorated with some autumn leaf of
which they know the name. The per-
son or persons having leaves prov
ing most difficult to name correctly
will be rewarded in some way. Light
refreshments, suitable to the season,
will be served. Everybody, young
and old, are invited.
Mrs. Kate P. Goss, nee Pennock,
wife of Walter W. Goss, curator OF
the Hotchkiss School at Lakeyille,
Conn, who has been spending the
past week with her cousin, Mrs. Helen
M. Sawyer, left Monday night on her
return itinerary. She makes stops at
Wolcott, Hardwick. Greensboro and
st. Johnsbury, at all of which places
sha hos mauU frienda We have been