News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-12-31
HYDE PARK
Happy New Year.

party at the Inn last FRIDAY night.
Communion service at the CoDgrega
tional church next Sunday morning.
Hon. Horace +. Graham state auditor
was in town Monday on official business
1t is laughable to see the hobble skirt
and snow shoes trying to walk together
Harold Batchelder of Hardwck visited
his college friend, G. G. Page, Saturday
The Peter Alexander insurance on the
corner block has been satisfactorily adj
justed.
Rob't Norton of Washington is here
for few days doing stenographic work
for Senator Page.
Miss Carrie Hubbard is spending the
week with her normal school associate.
Miss Addie Foss.
Brigham Mcfarland is spending the
holidays at Niagara Falls with his sister,
Mrs. Grace Hutchins.
Mrs. Marshall Shattuck, who has been
on Grand Isle for several months returned
home last Friday evening.
George Rooney and family of Fairfax
and Walter Rooney, were recent visitors
at the home of B. G. Rooney.
J. W. Leach of Burlington, son of
Judge Leach of this place, has just been
elected Chancellor Commander of the
Burlington K. P. Lodge.
The cold snap of Sunday was the
'worst of the season"-the thermometer
getting down to ten to ifteen below. Mon
day eased up little, touching the ten
mark.
Clifton DeNio spent Christmas at John
son, George Greene did likewise at Fair
field, Page Ufford at Fairfax, Miss Carrie
Smith at Swanton. Miss Florence Smith
at Westford.
Paul Goodwin, and his wife and child
rem from Manchester, N. H., are spend
ing couple of weeks here at the home
of Mrs. Goodwin's parents-Mr. and Mrs.
George Eastman.
A meeting of the stock holders OF the
Lamoiie County National Bank~w will be
held Friday of this week to decide as to
what action the bank will take cancern-
ing operating under the new currency
law which has just been enacted by
Congress.
Pearl Johnson of Burlington spent Sun
day in town at the home of his aunt, Mrs.
A. V. Wiswell. His aunt Mrs. Ferguson
returned with him and will make her
home the remainder of the winter at
Burlington with her niece, Mrs. Fannie
Johnson.
Jos. Young, who is at work on Grand
Isle, spent last Thursday and Friday at
his home here. "Joe" is foreman of a
gang of Cal pen,ers who are putting up
gentleman's summer residence on the
Island. He has been there several
months and will be there many more.
The poem published elsewhere in this
paper entitled THE Modern Maud Null
ler," is from the pen of an Eden poet and
was sent to young lady in this place as
a Christmas present. 1t is SO real funny !
that we are permitted to give it to our
readers who will no doubt heartily enjoy |
it.
will be pleased to learn that he now has |
a lucrative position in wholesale grocery |
house at Worcester, Mass. where he now
resides. His son, Everett, is professor
in the high school there aud his daughter,
Louise, is taking a postgraduate course
there.
A delegation of Johnson's representa-
tive citizens, including Deputy Sheriff
Jones, Representative Jose, Norman Wa
$erman, B. F. Ob9r, Judge Peck, and
others, were in town Saturday. Gases in
which that town is more or less interest
ed, asking for the removal of guardians, !
was the cause of the visit here.
Edgar Pratt has sold his big pair of bay
mares that have done work of all kinds
for him number of years to G. II. Flood
& Son of Cambridge. The horses are
good ones weighing about $500 and took
first premium at the Lamoille County
Fair. Edgar" will not be happy until
he finds some others lust as good.'
The Cantata and Christmas tree ex.
ercises at the Cong'l church last Wednes-
lay evening drew the usual full house
The Cantata was finely rendered-all of 4!
The young folks taking their parts well and
ire deserving of much praise. The ones
n charge are also worthy of credit for the
work they put into it. The trees were
we'll ladened and the gifts were were dis
ributed among the little folks.
AT LEAST ONE OF HIM IN EVERY STATE ,
we have with us this even !
ng an author known not only through s
,ut the United States but in England