News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-05-10


deIoga, N. Y, where he passed the win.
tel.
| Mrs. Howard X. Smith, who has beer
very i'll of pneumonia Tor several weeks,
is slowly recovering.
Edgar j. Adams returned last Wednes-
| day from BurliDgt ton, where he was oper-
ated supon at the Fanny Allen hospital.
Mr.. and Mis-. George Saxby of Bellows
X al came last week TO visit Mrs. Saxhy' s
. lrents, Mr.. and Mis-. +. ID. Van Du,en .
DR.. Ii. w. Barfows was in Burlington
Thursday. S. w. Barrows, father of DR..
Barrows and the oldest male resident, is
in feeble health.
Mrs. Flora Blodgett, who has been
very i'll at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
w. A.. Parks, in San Diego, Cal, is re-
covering slowly.
Mr. and Mrs.IW. l.. Haines of Worces-
ter, Mass, visited Mrs Haines' parents,
MIR. and Mrs. A. II. Cheney, recently.
Mr.. Cheney remains about the same
The agricultural boys in charge of their
instructor, Fl. H. Cooley, devoted some
time last week to pruning and grating
apple trees in G. F. Eddy's orchard.
The Stowe high school base ball team
was defeated by the johnson high school
team in game on j. l.. Staffurd's mead
ow Friday afternoon, the score being 7
to l.
State Road Commissioner Bates and
County Road Commissioner Barrows
were here Thursday in contulta'inn with
the selectmen and Road Commissioner
W. W. Ayers.
At ire drill at the high and graded
school building Thursday afternoon the
building was cleared of its occupants,
about 200 in number, in the record time
of one minute.
A masquerade ball at the Green Noun
tain Inn Friday evening was we'll attend
ed by 90 couples and about so spectators.
About so couples of the dancers were
masked and the dancing hall presented
an attractive scene.
F. Fl. Harris has moved from the E. K.
Hale house at Gold Brook to G. A. Sim
mons tenement in Stowe Hollow. Mr..
and Mrs. W. G. Towne, who have lived
in the Cong'l church parsonage since last
fall, will move this week to the E. K.
Hale house. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry H.
Cobb will move to the parsonage to keep
house for Rev. Lemuel Davis.
The agricultural boys of Stowe high
school repeated their Jersey Holsten de-
bate at the school house at Moscow
Thursday evening. About so people at
tended. This was the most holly con-
tested debate of the year and was won
by the Holsteins, which were represented
by Don Koulton, Alexander Adams and
Theodore Mayo. The judges were w. r.
Collins, Mrs. Fred X. Smith and Miss
Dorothy Wright. When this debate was |
given at the West Branch several weeks
lgo the decision was in favor of the Jer-
'eys, whose cause was presented by Orlo |
Jenney, Frank Bedell and Gordon Moul- |
on. This is the last debate to be held |
his year.
The people at the Central telephone
,ffice and subscribers on line II to Wat
,rbury Center were kept busy large
part of last Thursday night to locate
Miss Matte Fiske of Waterbury Center.
Miss Fiske, who is % years old and near
y blind, was in Moscow Thursday after
loon. She left Leon Butts house after
supper to walk to Waterbury Center. At
bout $50 her father and friends be-
,ame anxious about her as she had not
cached home. They ascertained that
he was seen.passing the power station
If the Mt. Mansfield electric railway on
be main road to Waterbury about s
'clock, but we're unable to obtain any
race of her after that. After the fruitless
uest of the night they were about to set
ut on an organized seal CHI Friday morn-
ng, when word was received that the
Dung lady had passed the night at the
ome of Mr.. and Mrs. j. f. Hodge on
be Gregg hill road, where she arrived at
bout $3.50 Thursday evening, having
AIKEN the wrong road at Shutesville.