News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-08-12

Miss Annie Robinson of Burling
ton is visiting at the home of e. 3
Robinson.
Mrs. Nelson B. Palmer of Boston
visited at l.. E. Brackett's the first
of the week.
c. A. Spiller and J. W. Rivers com
menced repairs on the Universalis1
steeple to-day.
Mrs. Laura F. Gleed returned Tues
day night from a short visit with rel
atives in West Concord.
Mrs. I'll. s. Kelsey returned Tuesday
from Stowe, where she has been spend
ing week with friends.
Mrs. W. l. Paul went to Newport
last Friday, where she will visit sever
al weeks with relatives.
George Bugbee has been engaged
as inspector for the local telephone
exchange at Montpelier. !
Mrs. Melvin Morse of Hardwick
passed last Saturday with Mrs. j. W.
Rivers on Congress street.
Fifteen members of the local c. E.
society attended the convention at
Watervi!le last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Small and child
ren visited friends in Montpelier and
Barre several days last week.
Mrs. R. l.. Palmer of Waterbury
arrived at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
FL. l.. Law for few days visit.
Twenty-Five took teachers exami-
nations here Monday and Tuesday
before County Examiner Beebe.
Leon Booth returned last Satur-
day, from q three weeks vacation
passed with friends in Somerset.
Mrs. W. F. Sherman and daugh-
ters visited several days recently at
the home of Mrs. Sherman's mother
in WateEville.
E. E. Harris and daughter, Miss
Brenda, have been visiting relatives
in Richford, Newport and other
points for several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Patch of
Johnson, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Patch
and son of Sodom we're the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Myron Ellsworth re-
Gently.
C. G. Griswold and family of Barre
have been spending several days at
the home of w. s. Daniels. Prof.
browne OF Johnson has also been visit
ing there.
L. A. Gates and daughter, Mrs. j.
E. Downey, of Jersey city, who have
been visiting at the nome OF Mrs. j.
W. Rivers, have gone to Wolcott for
few days.
Misses Berta Davis and Alice Chase
expect to leave in few days for Lin
coin, Neb., where the former has a
position as stenographer. Miss Chase
expects to secure a similar position
there soon.
Ernest R. Brackett, who has been
spending several weeks here, left the
first of the week for his home in Chi
cago, going by way of Boston. Mrs.
Brackett and son will remain here sew
eral weeks longer.
Edgar Patch of Springfield, Mass,
who has been visiting his father, Ver-
non Patch, in johnson, is the guest
of his twin sister, Mrs. Myron Ellis
worth. Mr.. Patch will return to
Springfield the last of the week.
Mrs. Emma Paul, who is stopping
for while at Queen City Park, de.
livered an address there recently upon
"The Problem of Life" An exchange
says iU "was one of the finest lectures
ever delivered from that platform"
Fred Freeman and wife of Boston
and friend, Miss Dykeman of New
York City, and A. b. Freeman and
wife of Spokane, Wash. are the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. FL. B. Free
man. The party left this morning
to visit relatives IN Johnson.
Special attention is called this week
to the new ad of E. W. Gates, success
sor TO c. j. Slayton at the "brick
store" The new firm is up to-date
in every particular and visit to
their large and well stocked store
will afford profit as we'll as pleasure
to the careful buyer.
Victory Lodge No. 1872, l. O.G. T.,
held their regular meeting last Mon
day evening. Officers for the ensuing
quarter were installed and three can
didates were initiated. This order,
which was organized last Feb, is in
a very fourishing condition and has
a membership of nearly seventy.
MIR. and Mrs. Charles McGaff-y of
Burlington, who have been visiting
Mrs. Ida Churchill, received a word
yesterday of the death of Dana Van
Stineburg, a brother-in-law of Mr..
McGaffey, who has been a sufferer
from consumption for a long time.
Mr.. McGaffey and wife, Mrs. Ida
Churchill and Miss Alice Nash left for
Burlington this morning.
W. M. Barber, one of our hustling
business men, received notice last
week of a reward for his services rem
dered "Uncle Sam," which was soon
followed by the "long green" Hehas
been granted pension of SO 90 per
month for his services in the Spanish
American War and also in the Philip
pines, and has received $161 so back
pay. He was private in Co. M. 1st
VT, in the war with Snain and was