News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-07-10
STOWE

| az ana hfS. AelVsh ID Oy % ana cnllHfen
OF Waterbury are passing the week in
Stowe.
Miss Fl tttie Pratt has resumed her
work As first assistant at the posloffice
after two weeks vacation.
The hours for closing the stores in the
village are as folows:-Monday 600 p.
M; Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday, 600; Saturday 1000.
Fran: Santamore, who recently came
to Stowe from Barnet and is employed as
cream gatherer by the Gold Brook
Creamery Association, will occupy the
tenement vacated by D. V. Reed in the
Fisher house at the Lower Village.
Gordon Bull who returned Monday
from Putney, went last Wednesday to
Burlington, where be underwent an oper-
alton Tor appendicitis at the Fanny Allen
hospital Thursday. His father, B. G.
Bull, accompanied aim to Burlington.
Mrs. Margaret Drugg, 95 years of age.
aud the Oldest resident, is suffering from
broken hip, the result of fall when she
stubbed her toe, at her home with her
daughter, Mrs. W. Il. H. Felix, Saturday.
Mrs. Drugg's condition is considered
serious.
The Fourth of 1918 was the quietest
known in Stowe in many years. The
sound of fire crackers and other explo-
sives was almost entirely lacking. The
closing of the pOstofice and stores for a
part of the day marked the extent of the
observance here.
Mr.. and Mrs. George F. Adams and
children and Mr.. Adams parents, Mr..
and Mrs. William W. Adams motored
last Saturday by way cf Addison and
shoreham to Ticonderoga, n. Y, where
they visited Mrs. Adams brother, Elmer
Robinson and other relatives They also
visited Fort Ticonderoga, Lake George
and other points of interest in the vicn-
| ity. They returned home Monday of
last week by way of Plattsburgh, Chazy
Landing and the Islands.
Miss Elsie Stebbins of Claremont. n.
J H., is visiting her mother, Mrs. Cynthia
Stebbins, and other Stowe friends. Miss
Mary Stebbins has gone to Hampton, N.
H., where she will pass the summer with
her uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. C. D.
! Gibbs. Mr.. Gibbs, who was formerly of
Stowe and who was the first man in the
! United Srates to enlist under the govern
ment call for shipbuilders, is employed
at the shipyards in Portsmouth and
makes his home with his family in Hamp-
| ton, moving there from Randolph.
George S. Harris of Morrstown, N. j.
| who is an instructor at Kamp Kill Kare
at st. Adams Bay, returned to the camp
Thursday after a few days at the home Of
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. W. F. Harris at
the lower village. Dwight w. Harris,
who motored from Keene, N. H., We'd
nesday of last week to the home of his
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Harris, was
accompanied home Thursday by Mrs.
Harris and children, who have been here
ten days and also by Mr.. Harris sisters,
the Misses Margaret and Pauline Harris.
and Miss Mary Chaplin, who will visit her
uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. S. NJ.
BOardman, in Keene, N. II.
First Lieutenant, T. Alden Straw, on
seven days leave from his command, the
22nd Balloon Co., at Fort Morrison, Va,
arrived last Wednesday at the home of
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert R.
Straw, joining there his grandmother,
Mrs. T. II. Osuund of Springfield, Ohio,
his uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy
Heron, and his sister and family, Mr..
and Mrs. Ernest E. Wright and children
of Fairfax, and thus completing a re-
union of the Heron family with the ex-
ception of the daughter and the older
son of Mar. and Mrs. Herron, Mrs. F. n.
Kobb of Ripon, Wis, and Ensign Robert
c. Heron, third in command on a sub.
marine chaser.