News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-10-16
JOHNSON
Wilmer Davis of St. John,bry was il
town last Thursday.


from Royaton Friday night
F. M. ODER of Morrisvile was bust.
ness visitor in town Thursday.
Miss Flossie Demeritt is home from
Georgia, where she is teaching.
Mahlon Gonyea has gone to Randolph
to attend the Agricultural School.
E. D. Culver of Richford was a guest
at DR.. E. FL. Scott's the first of the week.
S. j. Davis has sold his farm north of
the village to G. V. Miller, who takes
possession at once.
Mrs. Hattie Pearl has received word
that her son, Lieut. Lloyd Pearl, has safe
ly arrived overseas.
Howard Scott is with his family at the
home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. W.
Scott, for day or two.
Lloyd Fullington has enlisted in the
Military School in connection with the
University of Vermont.
Mrs. Frank Boyce attended the funeral
Va AOl hOLhOls Mlos lIuOOdlSS "u
Essex Center Saturday.
Master Leon Bell was in very critical
condition Thursday at the hospital His
condition is more favorable.
F. W. Hazen officiated at the funeral of
Ivan Leach in Eden Saturday and E. E
Holmes was funeral director.
Miss Tia Hoyt was in Morrisvile We'd
nesday, called there by the death Of her
grandfather, Harvey Bennett.
Richard Nye has returned to Tufts
College and enlisted in the Military
School in connection with the College.
The Normal and graded school teachers
are assisting in the care of the sick In
many houses where outside help is i'm.
perative.
Mr.. and Mrs. j, O. Sheldon, Mrs. B. A.
Hunt and daughter, Miss Helen of
WoodsvilIe, N. H., were in town the first
of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. A. Mcfarland and
daughter, Miss Alice, attended the fune-
raj of Mrs. Henry Mcfarland at Hyde
Park Saturday.
Miss Genevive Chandler, on her way
home to Peacham, from the hospita,
stopped off with her sister, Mrs. Mable
Hebb, over night.
Walter Titus of Morrisville came Sat
urday to help care for R. o. Despault
and his sons, who are i'll. Mrs. Despault
is also i'll of pneumonia.
James WEIGH of Oxford, N. H., Mrs.
M. G. Morse, Hardwick and Arthur Cook
of Bennington were here to attend the
funeral of Mrs. Mable F. Foster.
The sad intelligence of the death of
Mrs. Fl. E. Holbrook from pneumonia
Monday has been received here and much
sympathy is felt for the family.
The Red Cross workers have had to
work extra time this last week in order
to complete hurry order for 200 gauze
influenza masks for the use of doctors
and nurses.
Mrs. Emma Kinds and son, Lawrence,
are home from Burlington on account of
schools being closed. Her older son.
Cornelius, is expected this week from
Ohio on a furlough.
Second Lieut. Allen Fletcher, has been
promoted to the ranks of First Lieut..
He and his brother, Grover, Sergeant
Harold Gonyea and Howard Bailey are
on their way over seas.
All Christmas packages for soldiers
overseas must be mailed not later than
Nov. 10. The Rcd Cross will issue car
tons for the sending of gifts of the size
package government will permit.
Word was received here Thursday of
the death of DR.. H. A. Folsom at his
home in st. Johnsbury from pneumonia
He had had dental Office here for severa
years. His mother died four days before
he did and his wife and father are both
seriously i'll.
The word was received here Monday
that Mr. and Mrs. H. NJ. Maxfield and
daughter, Miss May, when they reached
Hartford, Conn, were only per-
mitted to see Miss Jennie one at time
for very short length of time. She knew
them and hopes are entertained for her
recovery. The case is pluro pneumonia.
Prin. and Mrs. c. II. Wiley, Misses
Madeline and Mildred Fitzgerald, Flor
ence Brewster, Norman Scott. Harold
Codding, Paul Woodward and Glenn
Fitzgerald were in Eden Saturday to at
tend the funeral of Ivan Leach, a student
in the johnson High School class of "19,
who died from pneumonia The students
and other friends outside the school,
feel deeply his death. Harold Codding,
Norman Scott, Paul Woodward and
Glenn Fitzgerald were the bearers.
Hand grenades are being produced