News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-10-04
JOHNSON

A44NooAN
Miss Glldys Bennett has a new piano
L. W. Fletcher was in Burlington Fri
day.
w. A. Landon and family of Soutl
Hero were here Sunday.
Mrs. Homer Grimes of Barre Is visiting
her mother, Mrs. Codding.
Miss Ida Ferry and Mrs. F. W. Holmes
passed last Wednesday in Burlington.
Miss Katherine Prentiss was home ovel
Saturday aud Sunday from the U. V. M
Dr.. Adelbert j. Allen of New Yorl
was in town last Friday for short time
Ralph Brewster and brother, Fuel, Of
Cambridge were in town the first of the
week.
Miss Agnes Leslie has returned from
Lowell and has opened her millinery
shop.
Allen Fletcher has resumed his posi-
ton in Proctor with the Vermont Mar
BILE Co.
The attendance at the Cong'l Sunday
School last Sunday, Oct. list, was121; col
lection, $l.44
Mrs. W. Fl. Stearns and daughter,
Wilma, returned Saturday from visit
to her sister in Maine.
Miss Beulah Mcfarland was home over
Friday night and Saturday from her
school in st. Johnsbury.
Rev. G. S. Quimby and family of Cam
bridge were guests last Friday of Rev.
and Mrs. G. M. Redstone.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. A. Wilson returned ia
Burlington Saturday night, after spend
ing several days at home.
Why is our curfew law not being en-
forced? There is great need of some
regulation about this matter.
Percy Mcdonnell of Providence, R. L..
who has been guest of Miss Ruth Par
ker returned the first of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. A. Mcfarland and
daughter. Marion, left last Tuesday for
an auto trip to Montpelier and other
points, returning Friday night.
F. G. Bicknell and family returned to
their home in Chester Monday, after
spending four or five days with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. 5. Bicknell.
Peter Lambert went to Mary Fletcher
hospital last Thursday and underwent an
operation Friday. He is doing we'll.
His wife and sons were with him Friday.
Mrs. Nellie Brown of st. Johnsbury is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Il. A. Fol-
som. Mrs. E. M. Harris of St. Johns
bury has also been guest of Mrs. Fol-
som.
Miss Nj. Louise Jackson of Cambridge,
Mass, and Miss Nellie Wood and N. E.
Freeman of Arlington Heights, Mass,
were guests last Thursday and Friday at
B. S. Fullington's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irving Wood were called
to North Hyde Park by the death of his
father, Elbridge Wood, who had been i'll
for several weeks and in very feeble
health for some time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Davis attended the
funeral of Elbridge Wood of North Hyde
Park Saturday afternoon. Rev. G. M.
Redstone officiated and the burial was in
the Plot cemetery in johnson.
Between - and one o'clock last Thurs
day morning an auto accident occurred
at the bend of the Lamoille river on the
Cambridge road, near johnson village.
Four men in an auto driven by Mr.. Cur
rler from Lowell went over the bank and
only for birch stump would have landed
in the river. Report says one OF the
men was seriously injured. The car was
we'll smashed up and Will Laporte took
the parties to Lowell the same morning.
As Laporte's car stood in the road Nor
risville touring car, carrying a theatre
party returning from Burlington, ran into
Laporte's Winton and the former ma
chine was slightly damaged.