News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1911-05-03
HYDE PARK.
Did you slick up Monday ?

The garden seed market Is now active
Mrs. Moves Wood and daughter were
in Wolcott last Friday.
A. b. Pease, now of Keene, N. H..
spent few days here recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ferd Gauthier spent Sun
day with relatives in Morrisville.
Mrs. Fred Ransom spent several days
last week with friends in Cambridge.
The Odd Fellows worked the initiatory
degree last evening upon one candidate.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. Leach visited in
Winooski and Burlington several days re-
Gently.
The rural schools started in upon theil
spring campaign Monday with good at
tendance.
F. S. Rogers, Esq, and A. A. Macomb-
er of North Troy were in town last Fri.
day on probate business.
Numerous houses about the village are
being painted and frightened up with
new and attractive colors.
Mrs. Robert Borens and Mrs. Anna Pearl
of johnson were guests of Mrs. Della
Robbins part of last week.
Game Warden Stevens has been at
Greensboro pond the past week, watch
ing the outlets thereof against the fish
being caught.
Tba ;otarr will ,paat Saturday Nav
9th, to hear grievances of persons by any
of the appraisals or acts of the Listers
and to make corrections.
Miss Jennie Fleetwood intends to re-
sumo her bakery business at an early
day. She intends to put a man with a
cart on the road this summer.
Donald w. McClelland of Burlington
was in town last Friday, in conference
with School Director Noyes with view
of taking the principalship of the L. c. A.
it necessary that people get their mail in
earlier and have little patience in wait
ing for its distribution. The extra work
will continue through the month of May.
There are one or two clay pits between
here and Morrisville, in this town, on the
road via Creamery Ave-, that ought to be
repaired. Automobiles and teams have
had sad experiences there.
Monday was really " cleanup" day
about the village. Lawns were raked and
the street commissioner gathered up the
rubbish from the streets, making an i'm
provement already very noticeable.
The Rebekahs held very interesting
meeting last Wednesday night, at which
time three were indicted into the mys-
teries of the ORDER after which there was
a social hour with light refreshments.
Sunday was an ideal day and many
took advantage of the warm weather by
strolling down to the Wintergreen in
search of arbutus, while others went out
in the country to see how high the water
was in the trout streams and others, in
goodly number, attended church.
These are busy days at the post office.
All the mail has to be weighed and sort
ed, going out and coming in, and each
class must be accounted for separately
and the time taken in making up and
sorting the same, must be chalked down.
This ard numerous other things makes
Capt. Waite installed the new officers
of Mt. Norris Lodge F. & A. NJ, at Eden
Mills last Saturday evening. The Cap
tain was made a member of that lodge
thirty-one years ago, Judge White then
being Master. By the way, of the char
ter members of that lodge the Judge is
the only survivor.
Quite good sized fire was started on
the grass in front of the hotel Sunday.
caused by throwing lighted match there
Timely discovery resulted in Its being
extinguished before any damage was
done. Smokers cannot be too cautious,
especially in dry weather, as to where
they throw their matches and cigar STUBS
The biggest sugar record about this
section comes from Centerville. Here it
is will Isham tapped two trees, the ex-
tent of his orchard, putting i've buckets
to a tree. From them he made forty lbs.
of sugar Not any of your thin stuff,
but good heavy syrup. One tree yielded
thirteen pals of sap in twenty-four hours.
Willie always tells the truth, and as Amos
Davis vouches for the figures, there can
be no doubt that the statement is true,