News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-05-17
FELCHERVILLE

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Mrs. Bixby of the Barnes district
has got up $23 Larkin order to get
a clock for the school.
Mrs. Noyes took her father and
mother for ride Sunday. They
have stood the hard winter we'll and
Uncle Vern is out getting his garden
ready for planting. They, l think,
are our oldest couple in town. From
their home on Fitch Hill they have
seen great many changes in their
day.
Joe Banister was through Monday.
He comes to the door with goods as
cheap as though you sent to Sears &
! Roebuck, Long may he be able to
come.
The Zanol Company has a man
coming through every two weeks
from Johnson.
Miss Helen Crowell was a visitor
at Trudeau's the first of the week.
A few of the callers at the old
plastered house were Mr.. and Mrs.
L. D. Bliss and son, Hobart, of Nor
risville, Miss Pearl Hall, Miss Woster
and Mr.. Cross of Burlington. The
old neighbors will remember Pearl,
as her father carried on the Russ
Page farm IL years ago. Miss Della
Whitcomb and friend, Mr.. Cantell, of
Cambridge and Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Ransom of the village were also call
ers.
To stop rum from coming across
the line would be like trying to stop
fighting in the old world; for the one
car that is caught 20 go through
safe.
Just about every night afraid
of another hard year in the grass
and where will the farmers be?
Working the back roads about here
and by fall when the sods get packed
down l think they will be quite good.
Oscar Whitcomb and Wallace Sey-
mour are at home from the hide barn,
putting in their crops.
The body of Will Bidwell was
brought from Wolcott to be laid by
his wife in the Barnes cemetery last
week. His death was due to dropsy.
Mrs. Abner Bessey has gone back
to Barre to stay with the old folks
for a while.
At Trudeaus they entertained Mrs.
Emerson and her sons, Orrin and
Alvy and Miss Moody and Mrs.
Eastman and daughter, all from the
village.
Will Grimes and wife and Mr.
Baker went the first of the week to
Eden Pond and brought home nice
lot of fish.
Cars were out in great number
and one thing l notice, there are
great many large cars and closed in
more than usual. | counted ten very
large cars. One stopped to buy milk
and eggs. They are out for all sum-
mer. A young couple had a bed,
camp, stove and tent, but they slept
in the car. He had been a clerk in
bank and health gone, so came to
lind it among our hills and valleys.
Mrs. Ed Jones and Master Napo-
leon were Saturday visitors in Eden
at Fred Jones'.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lamay entertained
our old neighbor, Mr.. Giroux's
young folks last week from st.
Johnsbury.
Will Bessey and wife from Enos-
burg Falls were weekend visitors at
Uncle Joel Bessey's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Decell entertained
Sunday Roy Bessey and wife and
Mrs. Mitchell of Hyde Park, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Stowell of johnson and
Miss Bertha Page of the north vii
lage. !
Clint Jones came home for over
Sunday. {
Mr.. Tedford's family are moving
to Morrisville. They were good
neighbOrs and men you could get for
days work. All wish them well in
their new home.
Oscar Whitcomb and wife and
daughter were Sunday callers at
Will Patch's at East johnson Sun
day.
Mrs. Bert Newton of johnson calls
up telling me she has a hens egg that
is s inches in length and 61b inches !
in circumference. Now Uncle Frank
will have to talk to his hen. and who
goes one better than Mrs. Newton?
Abner Bessey passed Sunday with
his father and mother