News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-05-09
L o C a L M e VS.
MORRISVILLE
j. B. Swafford is in town.

Leo Gould has recently installed an
Empire Milking machine.
John L. Jones and son, John, Jr., were
visitors in St. Johusbury last Saturday.
Prof. Robert D. Merrill of Bradford
came Friday evening, passing Saturday
with friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. B. Eaton are enter
tanning their cousin William Giddings, of
Philadelphia.
Mrs. Everett Hollis was a guest Fri
day and Saturday of Mr.. and Mrs. Merle
Jones of Hyde Park
E. Z. Phelps was business visitor in
Montpelier the latter part of last week,
returning home Monday.
Miss Ida Mae Beaulac of Hardwick
was guest of friends here Thursday, re-
turning home Friday morning.
J Supt. L. D. Smith of Wells River came
Friday evening for visit with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. ]. Smith.
Max Newcity of Lowell, Mass, was
guest of relatives in town several days
last week, returning home Saturday
Mrs. c. r. Kent of Burlington has been
visiting her daughter and husband, Mr.
and Mrs. H. II, Dodge, the past week.
James Greene and family from Water
bury and Mrs. Anna Durkee of st. AL
bans were guests over Sunday at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. George Norton on
Richmond street.
The condition of Lewis Delano, who
went to the Mary Fletcher Hospital last
Wednesday, where he underwent an op-
Grafton, is improving satisfactorily. He
returned Monday,
Roy Macomber went Friday to Water
vile, Me-, where he has position in the
store of the Grand Union Tea Company,
associated with Alton Littel, former
Morrisville resident.
TAFT Bros. creamery, in Fairhaven one
of the most modern plants in the state,
was totally destroyed by fire last Satur-
day morning. with a loss of several thou
I-J. Jackson, formally Of Moryisvil!e. .i&--
the manager and the owners are a
Springfield. Mass, firm.
Dr. Victor Genge OF Newport and his
brother, Val Genge, of ST. Johnsbury are
enlisting in the medical corps
and were in ST. Albans last week in re-
gard to the matter. The young men,
who are sons of the late Dr. Genge, a
former practitioner at Hyde Park, have
many friends in this vicinity.
Ed. Stevens, an employe in the Union
Savings Bank, Prof. r. D. Merrill of
Bradford and W. D. Hamilton went to
Burlington Monday. where they took
the examinations for entrance to the of
hcers' training camp at Plattsburg, N. Y.
They passed the examinations and await
notification of their selection. There are
5000 applications and only about half I
that number will be chosen.
Mrs. g. A. Barrows has received news
If the death of her sister. Mrs. Nellie
Stone Carpenter at Glendale, Dakota, {
which occurred Thursday, April &c, after s
IN illness of six weeks, She died at the {
lome of her sister, Mrs. May Meacham. \
She was a daughter of the late Henry
Stone of Eden and the widow of E. c.
Carpenter at one time in the hotel bust
less in Morrisville. ,
Perley Bickford, son of Mr.. and Mrs. i
3. D. Bicktord, who recently went from /
Mass, to Detroit, Mich, has /
nlisted from that city in the Canadian
dounted Rifles. He went to Detroit to +
ontinue in the employment of an auto S
manufacturing firm and enlisted the sec
md day after he began work there. He r
ormerly lived here and was employed Y
Or a time in the Morse mill. T
Bloomfield A. Palmer was elected treas
rer of the st. Johnsbury commercial +
Iub at a meeting held last Wednesday {
vening. Palmer Brothers, Bloom and g
,ecil, former Morrisville young men are
laking good in their business venture in I
t. Johnsbury and as might be expected tt
re taking an active interest in the ai a
HRS of the town. They have one of the Ii
lost modern and best equipped dry a
leaning plants in Vermont. a