News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1910-03-09

missing from the Library for some time.
If you have it, get it back quick,
The Odd Fellows will entertain the
Rebekahs and a few others at sugar
party at their hall on Friday evening
next.
A paper for signatures for a Fleetwood
Club is being extensively signed in this
place. An organization will be effected
at an early date.
The Rebekahs will be visited this even
Ing by Mrs. Keech, district deputy pres
ident. Full attendance desired; light re,
freshments will be served.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Noyes started for
their western home, MedfCrd, Oregon.
last Monday morning. They expect to
reach there Sunday morning next.
Do not forget the auction at the Guptil
place next Wednesday. The farm and
lot of personal property, as well as the
stock, will be put up. See posters.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Knight went to
Boston last Thursday and from there to
Washington for few days visit before
going to their new home in Medford,
Oregon.
The many friends of Mrs. Homer Lam
pher will be pleased to learn that she is
recovering from a severe illness. abscess-
es in the head. from which she has suf
fered all winter.
Lewis Foster, the lad from North VOL
colt who has been at Sheriff Stevens the
past four months because of diphtheria
at the Industrial School, was taken to
that place to-day.
Sugar making statistics already come
in. Geo. Lanpher reports that from two
quarts of sap he has made five ounces of
hard sugar, and that latter the children
had had quite taste" Next!
At the meeting cf the Odd Fellows last
evening the Intiatory degree was worked
upou one candidat9. New sugar with the
necessary trimmings followed, being the
treat of W. N. Putnam, which was greatly
enjoyed by all.
the local market to such an extent that
an additional building, to be devoted
especially to swine, is being erected down
on the Bronx, in the abatoir locality, by
James Finnegan.
D. Noyes Burton of Highgate, an occa-
sional visitor here and a distant relative
of the Noyes', died in New York City
Monday last. He was 54 years old. son
of the lateC. A. Burton, whose wife'wasa a
cousin of the late l.. I'll. and G. S. Noyes.
John Griffin and wife, who have been
in England since October last, returned
home last Monday night. They were
seventeen days in coming back from Liv-
erpool to Philadelphia. fogs and storms
delaying them. They report fine time
in the old country, but glad to get back
to Gods country.
Col. Sawyer was an interested attend
ant at the recent town meeting. 1t may
not be generally known that he has at
tended at least fifty annual town meet
ings in this his native town, and acted as
Moderator at thirty-two. This is a record
that we think cannot be equalled by any
other person in the State.
The Cemetery Association held its an
nual meeting at the Library Yesterday
afternoon and elected these officers:
President, Mrs. Stella Goddard, Vice
Pres, Mrs. Lillian Noyes; Sec'y, Mrs.
Julia McFarland; Treas, Mrs. Mary
Buckham. The Association will set out
additional trees on the new part this year,
as we'll as giving more attention to the
filling up of sunken graves and making
other Improvements.
The only parsimonious act of the last
town meeting was cutting down the
Library appropriation to S25-just the
amount that the law compels us to raise.
If there is any one object in town that
the entire town ought to be unanimous
upon, it is that which will provide good
and wholesome reading for all classes,
especially the young. All of the towns
in this county that have public libraries
made appropriations far in excess of that
which we voted and foI the shire town
to be behind others in this respect does
not speak very highly for us. Let's be
economical in almost any other direction,
but not stingy in this.
Rev. Mr.. Lamb. the new minister, had
wedding "out of the ordinary" on town
meeting day. A bashful couple, the groom
being So and the blushing bride 20, the
former a resident of Johnson and the
latter from Morrisville, called on him and
wished to be married. The parson, with
visions of $500 and $4,000 fees, performed
the ceremony in his best style and after
extending congratulations presented the
bride with handsome thirty-cent mar
riage certificate. When this was all over
the bridegroom asked the clergyman if he
would ''be at home tomorrow" The
parson thinking that perhaps another