News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-08-23
MORRISVILLE

| oShooi DSSiuS wednesday, OCPI. o,ffE
The great aluminium offer at Drowne'
is explained on page 8. Read it.
Miss Elsie Stearns of Johnson was |
guest Saturday of friends in town.
Edward Emmons is suffering from {
! severe case of blood poisoning in hi
right hand.
Mrs. Nellie Russell returned Friday
evening from visit with relatives il
Swantcn.
Earl Cedric, infant son of Mr.. and Mrs
E. H. Durham, is suffering from whoop
ing cough.
"Have you been Chautauquad?" asks
the Mortified News-We have, so much
so that there is great demand for an
| other dose next year.
The Universalist Sunday school picnic
will probably be held Friday ofthis week.
| Children are requested to meet at the
church at nine o'clock.
Plans for the reunion Co. D are pro-
crossing finely. Arrange to be on hand
Friday Sept. 1st at Lake Lamoille and
have good time with the veterans.
Mrs. Hugh Adams of Bernardston,
Mass, and sister Miss Susan Warren,
matron of the Massachusetts, State Hos
pital at Northampton. were guests the
first of the week of Mrs. E. A. Bentley.
Morrisville relatives and friends have
received news of the birth of son, Ed
win Isaac, Jr., to Mr.. and Mrs. E. l.
Booth of Providence, r l., which occur.
red Friday, August II. Congratulations.
A. B. Greene and family have moved to
the Smith & Tillotson farm on Dorches-
ter Heights and Willie O'Neal, who has
has commenced work in Morse's dress
ing mill, has moved his family to the Ned
Shaw house on Elmore street.
Prof. Harold H. Fisher, who has been
taking a summer course in modern dra-
mates at Dartmouth College, returned
last Monday night. He has since been
suffering from nervous breakdown.
caused from overwork, and went today
to the Hays sanitorium at Burlington.
He was accompanied there by DR.. Geo.
L. Bates, his father, H. J. Fisher, Miss
Jean Pinney and Mrs. w. NJ Sargent,
the party going in the Sargent car.
Last Wednesday evening the members
of the local band were in Hardwick,
where they assisted the Hardwick band
in giving their usual Wednesday evening
open air concert. Just after arriving in
Hardwick Bernard Howard, who is en-
ployed in the stone sheds of the Union
Granite Co., and plays the big double B
bass horn in both the Hardwick and
bands, was struck by a car
while crossing the street to the concert
ground. Mr.. Howard s left leg was badly
bruised and the horn was put entirely
out of commission. He was taken into
DR.. Cranes office nearby, where an ex-
animation showed no broken bones. but
the injury will cause him considerable
lameness for several days. EtF
The burial of Mrs. Mary (Peo) Hamlet
took place in the Wheeler |
cemetery in Morrisville Monday. Mrs.
Woodwork, who had made her home |
with her son, Fred Hamlet at Enosburg |
Center since last, fall was found dead in
her room last Saturday morning. The
funeral was held at the house Monday
at 9 o'clock, the Rev. e. S.
Vradenburg officiating. She was found
with a trunk strap around her neck.
This was attached to sheet which was
tied to the doorknob and the door closed.
In this manner she had strangled herself
to death. Mrs. Woodwork was a sis
ter of Will PEG of Elmore and an aunt of
Mrs. Hermon Lanpher of Maple street.
She was CT years of age and had been in
yerv moor health for some time