News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-09-02

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Frank Batchelder and wife of st.
Johnsbury visited friends in town a
few days last week.
Miss Edith Warren, of Calais, is a
guest OF her mother, Mrs. Joseph
Sherman at Cady's Falls.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. F. Wheeler have
been entertaining Mrs. Wheeler's s
brother and wife of Richford.
Mrs. G. A. Wilkins visited several
days recently in st. Johnsbury, the
guest of Mrs. w. D. Welcome.
Mrs. 6. G. Jones, of Manchester, N.
H., is visiting her sister, Mrs. FL. G..
Sherman, in the south part of town.
Willie and Frances Bates returned
last Saturday from st. Albans, where
they visited friends for several weeks.
Mrs. A. M. Kendall, of Burlington,
has been a guest this week of the
Misses Lillian Patten and Edith
Crane.
DR.. W. A. Tenney and family, of
Granville, N. Y, are guests at the
home of his father, Daniel W. Tenney
on Union Street.
George Russell and sister, Helen, re-
turned last Saturday from Enosburg,
where they visited their aunt, Mrs. j.
e. Watson for a week.
W. s. Cheney, who has been spend
ing the past two weeks with his fam
lily at Peaks Island, Maine, returned
home last Friday night.
Mrs. Allen Place and grandpaugh-
ter, Alice Dutton, were guests last
Friday at the home of Mrs. Places
sister, Mrs. Harrison Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Winfield Farr and
daughter of Bristol and Glenn Gould
of Albany, N. Y, were recent guests
at the home of their parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Gould.
Frank Robinson came up from Bur-
lington Saturday tor a short visit,
returning Tuesday, accompanied by
his wife and daughter, who have been
here for some time.
Fred Huntington, who has been
playing ball with the local team here
tor che past few weeks, returned to
his home in Montpelier Monday. He
will be captain of the '. NJ. s. foot
ball team this fall.
Mary Harris came to town from
her home in Newport last evening and
will attend school at Peoples Acada,
my the coming year. She was accom-
panied Dy Brenda Harris, who has
been visiting there for some time.
Last Wednesday afternoon the
Boys Bridage, under the leadership
OF me Rev. Z. e. St. Clare, pastor OF
the Cong'l church, held very enjoy
able picnic and drill on the farm of
A. b. Munson, south of this village.
FL. D. Blakley and wife and son,
Guy, of Waterbury, and son, B. L.
Biakeley, and wife of Hartford, Conn,
we're guests at the home of A. c. Be-
dell and other relatives in town last
week, returning home Sunday night
Miss Stella Marshall of Lowell,
Mass, has been aguest OF her aunt,
Mrs. Emily Harrison. Accompanied
by Mrs. Hartson's two sops, Irving
and Ernest, they went to Elmore for
a brief outing last week. Miss Mar
shall made catch of forty fish.
Gordon Burt, who works for Charles
Shaw, picked a cluster of ripe straw
berries Monday, the largest being
i've inches in circumference. Gordon
didn't stutter when he told it and
the facts can be verified by asking
"Joe" Banister. Just as | tell you
boys"
Last Saturday afternoon an in
teresting baseball game was played
on the Old Fair Grounds between the
Morrisville Cadet team and juvenile
club from Hardwick, the game being
won by the former by a score of 10
to 5. The game was we'll played and
consumed less than two hours.
Miss Edith Barcombe, of Hyde
Park, began work Tuesday morning
for Mrs. +. 2. Keeler in her millinery
store, where she will remain during
the fall season. Miss Kimball of
Brandon, who is now in New York
City, will arrive here in a few days
and will be employed by Mrs. Keller.
Saturday of this week the Morris
vile team will play team from Fort
Ethan Allen. The soldiers played in
Hardwick last Saturday and were
defeated by score of to ]. Vale
and his catcher were battery for
Hardwick. The soldiers have got a
bang up team this year and one of
the best games of the season is prom.
ised.
W. Fl. Roberts arrived in town
Monday evening and is a guest for a
few days at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
S. B. Doty, where Mrs. Roberts has
been for the past two weeks. MIR.
Roberts has been offered lucrative
position as manager of an Electrical
factory at st. Louis, and will go there
in a few days. Mrs. Roberts will re-
main here for a few weeks.
A pleasant reception was held last
Friday evening, at the home of L. S.
Small on the Randolph road In honor
of Mr.. and Mrs. Small's son, Walter
Small and wife. 1t was principally a
family gathering and about thirty
five relatives and neighbors gathered