News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-06

spoke at the Methodist church last Sun.
day morning in the interest of the society.
Rev. and Mrs. l. A. Ranney gave a re-
ception to the teachers and one class of
the Methodist Sunday School. Refresh
ments were served and an enjoyable
evening passed.
An important meeting of the Christian
Alliance will be held in the parlor of the
Congregational church Friday evening at
$780, All members are requested to at
tend if possible.
Mrs. Anna Raffenserger, who has
passed several weeks with her sister, Mrs
M. w. Baker, left last Friday for her
home in Marion. Iowa. She will visit
relatives on her way.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. A. Waterman left last
Saturday morning for Medford, Oregon,
where they expect to make their future
home. Tom is going into the fruit grow
ing business with Dr.. F. G. Page of Med
ford.
Frank Sanborn, son of Mrs. Vernon
Knowles, has been very dangerously i'll
from ptomaine poisoning, caused from
canned salmon. Other children of the
family have suffered from the same,
in a milder form.
A fireplace has been built in the Office
of Hotel johnson. Mr.. Garrow and son
of Enosburg Falls have done quite line
of cement work here since completing
that of the Library building and gone to
their home. Their work is very satisfac-
tory.
The first regular meeting of the Dread
Literary Club for the ensuing year will be
held at the home of the president, Mrs.
Ida B. Jones, Thursday evening, Oct. Z,
subject, The Hundred Years War;"
chapter 20:-The Expansion of England,
Social and Economic Conditions of Eng
land and France and Joan of Arc, the
Deliverer.
Regular meeting of Auxiliary, No. 10,
next Tuesday evening. Owing to the
bad weather there were not enough
members present to drill on the floor
work at last meeting. Let every. member
make an extra effort to be present at the
next meeting, especially the officers, as
the Auxiliary has got to be inspected
and there must be good deal done or it
will not stand at the head next year.
On the next three Sunday evenings
Rev. A. M. Watts, pastor of the Baptist
church, will deliver the following adj
dresses on the "Worth of Man" Oct. 10,
what others think him worth,' Matt.
26:15; Oct. II, "What he thinks himself
WORTH" Matt. 1926; Oct. "a, what
God thinks him worth, Matt. 6:26. Each
address will be preceded by praise
service with special music. Everybody
welcome to these services.
Monday evening more than hundred
persons spent a pleasant evening at the
reception given by the Alliance at the
church vestry. Much amusement was
created by novel form of entertainment.
Each person on entering was given line
of some song, and latter, all those who
had parts of a song were gathered to.
gether in groups and sang the song as
signed to them. A prize was given to
the best group, the honor falling to the
singers of "Old Black Joe."
At the Congregational church last Sun
day the services were Of unusual interest.
A special feature of the morning service
was the music, two delightful anthems
being sung by the choir, and very fine
voluntary by the organist attracting at
tention. The choir has been enlarged by
recent additions to but one short of
double quartette. There were 80 in at
tendance at Sunday school, At the
afternoon service Mrs. Poeton gave an
address to the Juniors, on Missionary
work. In the evening the pastor read
the paper he had presented last week to
the Minister'S Association, entitled |
Goods Way in America" Next Sunday |
Rev. Mr.. Poeton will preach on Hearing
and Doing" with the idea of setting |
standard for the work of the coming sea-
son, and in the evening will take for his |
subject, "a Fore-runner of Roosevelt"