News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-01-05
FELCHERVILLE

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day.
Howard Sprague was Sunday visito
at Mr.. Hooper's.
Oscar Whitcomb was at Edgar Pratt
Sunday on business.
Ruth and Olive Clark of johnson wer
guests New Years Day of Flora Hooper
Word just received that little Rober
Barnes is quite sick with this distempel
Poor little lad.
Walter Barnes is sick with a hard coll
Madeline Whitcomb spent last Wednes
day with Mrs. Barnes.
Mrs. Ed. Jones and children Dasse,
Sunday at her old home in Centervill
with her sister, Hattie.
Ray Bessey and wife passed one da,
the past week with his old friend Lu
cius Noyes and good wife, Ellen.
Mrs. Emerson, Miss Mead, Mrs Nc
Kenzie, Della and Madeline Whitcoml
were recent callers at the old plasterec
house.
! Mr.. GirouX's family passed Sunday al
their cousins, who three weeks ago came
from their old home in Canada anC
bought the old Miller home.
A few lines from our old neighbors
Mr.. Hovey's people, who now live at St
Adams Bay. They are all we'll and send
kind regards to all old friends.
Mr. Gauvin has his wood pile nearly
ready for the sawyer. Guess he is glad
he is in old Vermont and not in Massa-
chusetts through the coal panic
At Decell's Saturday they had Madge
Jones and her brother from Whitcomb-
vile to spend the day and Wednesday
Mr.. and Mrs. Bartlett passe the ay with
| them.
Saturday Lucius Moves and wife en-
tertained Harry Shattuck, wife and
daughter of Eden for the day A good
time and all to soon the evening shades
warned them it was long ride to their
home.
Mrs. Emerson received word that her
son, Alvey has been transferred to Vir-
ginia where he is in the hospital for flu
and measles. Sad news but good care
and warmer climate may carry him
through. Poor mother, waiting is hard.
Miss Dot Tillotson goes back to the
hospital for treatment. She has not i'm
proved as it was hoped she would. All
her friends are so sorry, but it seems
the only way and each and everyone
hopes it will be only short stay.
Uncle Ell and aunt Nett were up at
the Elms Saturday to pass the day with
her brother, Vernon Fitch and wife. May
they pass many New Year together.
They are going down the last half and
few are the families that have the priv
ilege to be together so long.
Mr.. Wright, head of the electric plant
passed the New Year with his aged
mother at the old home at Dix, Canada,
brothers in helping to make happy day
for the mother, who is in feeble health
May she be there to greet them when
another New Year comes.
The past week the six pair of horses
from the mines drew up the large
crusher. The first day they got it as
far as the Rus Page farm, leaving it
there, they returned to the village
Starting the next morning they got it as
far as the Eden line, here they struck
snow and the trip is more slow and
harder for the horses. They are now on
the last few miles. Did you notice what
nice horses and how they worked to-
gether.
As / write, l picked up the Messenger
and read the pieces pro and con In favor
of the little red school house. Now let |
me tell you the experience of a farm |
girl raised on McKinistry Hill. She at
tended the district school and one term |
at l.. c. A, then to the State Normal |
where she graduated. She taught in |
this town and one term in the Fletcher |
vile school. Her father was growing |
feeble and he asked her to go to the |
West, find some place where there was |
less snow and he would sell and go. Just |
eight days after she had agreed to go |
man came to her school and calling her
to the door told her that her father had |
passed away. She finished her school
and started West. She was in Iowa
three years teaching, while in the vaca-
lions which in those days were twice a
year she took up a chance to be a book
agent. In short time the firm appoint
I'd her general agent, then road agent,
hen manager. After that the firm sent
her to the Pacific coast to start branch
office. She farm girl started to Stock
on, CAL, where she established the
branch office. The business thrived so
hat she received from the home office
md reshipped to towns on the coast 171A
ons of books in eight weeks About
hat time one of the firm died and she
Fought out the business. She had 1900
Igents out and an office force of Is.
lust think and only a girl raised on
Jack farm and all the training was from
'ur Normal school. l know her district
chool training was when the selectmen's ,
eport of S7433.55 which was about the
ear 1876, when we only paid SOC on the
Iollar. This farm girls name was Martha
thompson and she only received $3.50 a
week and taught six days in the week.
;ould she have gone to Burlington to {
raining school? What the district and {
formal schools have done, they can do /
gain.