News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-04-19
STOWE


week on her way from Boston.
The "Willing Helpers" Community
Club will meet Thursday afternoon
with Mrs. H. w. Luce in Stowe Hol-
low.
Mrs. Dora Clark, who was detained
in Stowe last week, went Monday to
Bellows Falls to care for her aunt,
Mrs. Nichols.
Preston Carter, who has been en-
ployed by the c. E. & F. o. Burt Co.,
leaves this week for Jericho, where
he has employment on farm.
Mrs. M. P. Russell, who attended
the funeral of her brother, A. E..
Batchelder, in Lyndon Center Tues
day, will remain there to visit her
daughter for several weeks.
Mrs. Almira Slayton, who has
passed several weeks with her niece,
Mrs. H. H. Demeritt, in Waterbury
since her return from Burlington
where she had treatment for an
abscess on the eyeball, returned to her
home on Maple street Monday. Her
nephew, Clarence E. Smith of Norris
vile, is stopping with Mrs. Slayton
for the present.
The village trustees have pur-
chased of A. L. Morrill, about 80 acres
OF, pasture land adjoining the village
water system. There are several good
springs in the purchase which will
be connected with the reservoir. Ten
thousand Norway spruce trees have
been ordered from the state forester
and will be set out in the pasture to
help conserve the water supply.
There are already about 800 naples
Bnd some soft wood growing on the
land.
Among the men who have been
employed at the factory of the Stowe
Butter Package Co. for a long time
began working at P. D. Pixies tub
shop 81 years ago. Mr.. Culver pur-
chased the mill in 1885 and ran the
business eight years and then sold
back to P. D. Pike and son. He con-
tinued in the employ of that firm and
its successor, the Stowe Butter Pack
age Co., until the present. Among
others who have been employed there
20 years or more are A. w. Collins,
W. w. Robinson, o. H. Adams and
E. j. Adams. L. c. Camp finds the
following entry in his diary on No
vember IS, 1881: Pixies sawmill and
Porter's tannery were destroyed by
fire early this morning. These plants
fwere on the site of the factories
burned last Friday.
Supt. C. d. Howe was in town Mon
day.
Miss Theresa Hill passed Easter at
her home in Burlington.
n
in New York City and Worcester,
Mass.
Report of the condition of Mrs.
Eleanora wilkins states that she is
very low in Pasadena, Calf.
Mrs. M. p. Russell went Monday to
Lyndonville to attend the funeral of
her brother, Albert Batchelder.
The Rev. Robert Dewey of Water
bury conducted a Catholic service at
the banquet hall Sunday morning.
Machinery is being installed at the
c. E. & F. o. Burt Co.'s mill to con-
tinue part of the work done by the
Butter Package Co.
The young men of Mrs. Hayward's
Sunday School class will give a
"Father and Son" banquet at the
Mr.. and Mrs. L. H. Straw and
family, who have passed the winter
in the village, returned Monday to
their summer home in Moscow.
The Misses Catherine and Hide |
gard Smalley returned Monday to |
Plattsburg, N. Y, after passing the
Easter vacation at their home.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. D. Robinson re-
turned Monday from Burlington
leaving Mrs. Effie Robinson comfort |
able and doing as well as can be !
expected.
The Rev. G. R. Brush of Hardwick
conducted an Episcopal Mission serv-
ice at the banquet hall Sunday eve /,
ming and Holy Communion service /
at the H. E. Pike home Monday morn !.
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph X. Brown of !
Stockton, Calf, are parents of a
daughter. Josephine Fay. born April |
8, their third child. Mrs. Brown
was formerly Miss Nettie Cobb of
Stowe.
There was a free motion picture
entertainment at the Akeley Memoir
ial building Monday when "Alice
effort was made to complete Stoves
quota of S125 for the Near East Re- /
lief fund. The Stowe winter carnival
pictures were shown.
The mid-month meeting of the
H. H. Smith Women's Relief Corps
on Thursday evening will open at
seven o'clock and will be followed
by an open session when a program
in honor Of the birthday of President
Ulysses S. Grant will be carried out.
The Easter service at the Com
munity Church Sunday morning was
of unusual interest. There was spe-
cial music by the choir with Miss
Jessie Southland at the organ. A
vocal solo was rendered by c. J.
Strand, An earnest sermon with an
Easter message by the pastor, Rev.
c. E. Hayward, was followed by the
of the Lords Supper
There was a beautiful display of
ported plants and cut flow
ore Easter pxprciGpo xuara eay-riod