News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-12-01

| The Dread Club meeting will be post
poned from Thursday to Friday evening
on account of the lecture, subject Ger
many before the Protestant Reformation
Mrs. G. w. Stevens, aunt of Mrs. d. A
Barrows, and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Bar
ney and daughter of Essex Junction spen
Thanksgiving with Mr.. and Mr.. d. A
Barrows.
E. P. Jose, the new manager of the
American Mineral Co., is putting in new
machinery to make the finest grade Of
tale. E. A. Hurlbut of Rochester will
operate the plant when installed.
A. j. Gould has finished his new house
on the hill, at one time known as the
Chesemore Hill. His son, George, con.
templates building a house another year
just below his fathers, toward the village.
Next Sunday morning at the Cong
church the annual Offering for the Edu-
cational Society will be. received. This
will be the last missionary offering of
the year and quite little is needed for
the church to make up its assigned sum
for benevolent purposes.
The teachers and students of the Nor
NAL school are issuing general invita-
ton to the public to visit them and see
the changes made in the building on
Monday, Dec. 6. They will keep open
house from till p. m. and 1880 till
10 p. M, with some simple entertainment
in the evening.
Extensive repairs are being made upon
Jones' drug store. The veranda is being
taken into the store proper, large plate
glass windows put in, which will make
the store much larger. The stairway is
to be put on the outside of the building,
which will make the store one of the finest
in the place. Jones Bros. are doing the
carpenter work.
A lady past middle life registered at
Hotel johnson last Wednesday night, ar
irving on the train from the west, and
claiming her name to be Mrs Emery.
~ was louuu Uudu SlC was luoduC.
Wells called on the authorities
to care for her and she will be taken to
the asylum at Waterbury. 1t has been
learned by phone that she has daugh-
ter in Montpelier, but she cannot provide
for her mother.
Mrs. Hattie Kermey was called to Proc
tor Friday by the death of her grandson,
Floyd Thomas, son of Charles Thomas,
who moved his family to Proctor last
March. Floyd was promising young
man of 20 years and the family have the
sympathy of Johnson friends in their be-
reavement. He was born and had lived
in johnson until a year or more ago,
when he went to Proctor, where he had
He was graduate of
johnson High school in the class of 1908.
On Thursday evening of this week will
be given the lecture by Rev. Leonard
Baker Tenney of Scotland, Conn. By
special request Mr.. Tenney instead of
giving the lecture being produced in
other towns around us, will present his
lecture on THE Holy Land and A Trip
through the Mediterranean" The lee
ture will be given in the Congregational
church, and not in Normal hall as an
nounced last week. Mr.. Tenney's lee
lures have been we'll commended by Con-
necticut and Massachusetts papers, and
have been delivered over $50 times.
Miss Helen G. Holmes, granddaughter
Of the late John Holmes, and Arthur
Patterson Gerry of Franklin, N. H., were
married at the BRIDES home, IS Davis
Ave-, Brookline, Mass, Wednesday even
ing, Nov. "a, by Rev. DR.. Ambrose w.
Vernon, pastor of the Harvard Congrega-
Lional church. The young couple were
unattended. The ushers were DR.. Harry
w. Hicks of Everett and W. S. Kemp of
Brookline. The bride wore princess
gown of white lace over white satin. Her
veil was caught with wreath of orange
blossoms. A reception followed, Mr.. and
Mrs. Gerry being assisted in receiving by
Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. Morgan, Mrs. Morgan |
being mother of the bride, and Mr.. and |
Mrs. F. G. Gerry. parents of the groom.
The couple left later on a wedding tour,
which will include New York and At
antlc City. Guests were present from |
3rookline, Dorchester, Newburyport and |!
franklin.