News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-12-18
L o c AL N e VI s
MORRISVILLE

J. S. Emery OF Craftsbury was in town
to-day.
Anyhow, this fine weather is swatting
the high price of fuel
DR.. A. j. Burbank, veterinarian, OF
Hardwick will locate in MorrisviIle.
Miss Bertha Terril of the U. V. M !,
faculty is spending few days in town.
For sensible merchandise, suitable for
worth while presents, go to the Munson
store.
| Owing to the high cost of getting them
here from Waterbury the Sunday Globe
will not come hereafter.
The entertainment in the course which
was to have occurred Tuesday evening
has been cancelled on account of the
| quarantine.
The annual meeting and election of
officers of Lamoille Grange, which was
to occur Wednesday, has been indefinitely
postponed on account Of the quarantine.
Nj. W. Carleton advertises special
Holiday sale of staple goods. beginning
December 21. AS the Corners store is
out of the high rent district. Mr.. Carle.
ton can and does name some very low
prices. Read his adv. in this issue.
Billings market is as usual, prepared to
furnish all the essentials for your Christ
mas dinner. Every thing clean and nice
and delivered anywhere in the village.
Better order early, as shipment of un-
sold turkeys, etc, will be made before
Christmas morning.
Small's gift store was better prepared
than ever this year and the large stock
still presents almost an unbrokeu front,
owing to frequent endorsements. A
perusal of their adv, this week will surely
be time well invested and a visit to the
store will pay quick dividend.
Grafton Herrick, who has visited his
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. c. II, Herrick,
started Friday on his return to Auburn
dale, Mass, but upon reaching st. Johns,
bury received dispatch that his uncle
Edgar Whitcomb of Hyde Park, had
died, and returned here that evening.
Miss Marion Fox, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. @, s. Fox, who has had civil SER
vice position in the war department at
Washington, has recently received pro.
motion, being given important work
in the handling of cablegrams. Her Nor
risville friends are pleased at her advance
ment.
Ruth Johnstone, second daughter of
DR.. and Mrs. w. NJ. tombstone, sustained
a fracture of bone in the right arm,
about two inches above the wrist, while
sliding on Thomas Hill, behind the school
house. She was sliding on a single sled,
when she fell of, her arm being doubled
under her body. DR.. Goddard assisted in
placing the arm in a plaster cast.
In the suit of Counseli-&C & Son, farm ma
chine dealers of St Johnsbury VS. E. G.
Foss, for recovery for saving rig sold the
after, tried before st. Johnsbury jury
asst week, a verdict was brought in for
plaintiffs. M. p. Maurice, counsel tor
Foss, moved to have the verdict set
aside. A large number ofwitnesses being
called from Morris vile. Leon Amsden
was called last Thursday by Counsel &
Son.
Rev. Frank A. Stockwell, recently ap-
pointed chaplain in the U. S Army, who
has spent several weeks here with Mrs.
Stockwell. is now nicely settled at Fort
Porter, near Buffalo, N. Y, where is To-
lated a U. S. general hospital, where a
large number of soldiers, who have re-
emily been sent home from France, are
being treated. Many of the cases are for
ihell-shoek, while many severe mental
.ases are treated there. Mr.. Stockwell
has been stationed there as chaplain and
Is the Fort is a permanent one, Mrs.
'tockwell will go there as soon as
louise is made ready for their occupancy.
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