News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-12-01
&1.00 a Year in Lamoille Co
S1.2S Outside of Lamoille Co

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Campbell of Vest
ooro, were recent visitors at the home of
p. T. Denio.
Misses Beulah and Idessa Rooney of
East Fairfield spent the past week here
with their grandmother, Mrs. Bennett.
Willis Sherwin and family partook of
the hospitality of Mr.. and Mrs. A. G.
Hamel at Morrsville on Thanksgiving
day.
Advertised letters-Mrs. Orville Jones,
Mrs. Dancy Goodwin, Miss Gertrude
Dunbar Cards-Mrs. Henry George, d.
Grant.
Miss Alma Noyes left Saturday night
for Harrisburg, Penna., where she will
spend the winter with her sister, Mrs.
Abbott.
b. w. Mudgett and wife and Delbert
Gray. wife and son spent Thanksgiving
with Claude Mudgett and wife of North
Hyde Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Parker went to Bur-
lington Monday, where Mrs. Parker will
undergo surgical operation at the Mary
Fletcher Hospital this week.
Carl Leonard, who has been temporar-
lily filing Ben Lilley's place at the depot,
finished work Monday and Ben has re-
sumed duties there for the present.
December /, 1908, was warm day.
There was no sleighing and at least one
automobile from up this way made trip
to Stowe, the roads being dry and fine.
Judging from the strenuous work the
j. c. A. students are putting in now-a-
nights at the Gym great things may be
expected of them when the basketball
season opens.
Marshall Shattuck accompanied his
brother Martin, of Eden to the Fanny
Allen Hospital, near Fort Ethan Allen,
Tuesday where ne will receive a course
of treatment.
The matter of express delivery still
hangs fire. Perhaps some day 'in the
sweet by and by people here will not
have to travel down to the depot express
ly to get their express.
The remains of Mrs. Leonard Nc.
Dowell were brought here from Tilton,
N. H., last Monday and on Tuesday taken
to Eden for burial. Mrs. Mcdowell was
the widow of Leonard Mcdowell.
The snow and sleet last Friday made
the scenery hereabouts veritably "acres
of diamonds" The trees. shrubbery and
mountains glistened like diamonds ia
the bright sunshine, presenting picture
like unto the fairylands "you read about,
but seldom see."
DR.. Stevens has completed the work on
the enlarging of his barn, which is now
fitted up in modern style. Besides giving
him ample room for his horses and wag-
ons, he has model hennery and an up
to-date office-everyt thing handy and de-
cidedly convenient.
II. E. Mudgett, the man of wonderful
memory, was in this village yesterday
and after subscribing for this paper to
be sent to his absent son Qike all atfec.
tionate fathers do) gave us this bit of
information: Hon. I. l.. Pearl of John
son was born Nov. II, 1881; Abijah Fl.
Buck of st. Adams was born Nov. 20,
1882; Hon. G. w. Hendee, late of Norris
vile, was born Nov. 80, 1S32-all in the
same month and same year.
No, there is no circus coming to town,
as a small boy asked, when he saw the
big board fence being erected on Church
street. 1t is only snow fence, which
Street G commissioner Strong has put up
to break the snow and keep it from fill
ing up the street in front of the Gym.
For years thus has been difficult place
to keep open and the Street Commission
er thinks if hundred feet of snow fence
will stop it, it ought to be put up and so
up it has gone.