St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-12-06
PASSUMPSIC.
PEACHAM.

Disappearance of John Varnum.
John Varnum, for many years one of
our most trusted business men, has
left for parts unknown. He leaves IL
sOrrOwing family, a multitude of cred
itOrs, and a furnished name. He was
recently arrested on the suit of Boston
creditors, and was released on bail.
He hired a team of Walter Bailey and
left it at the Avenue house stable at
St. JOhnsbury. He was town clerk
and treasurer of the Caledonia county
grammar school and his departure
leaves affairs in some confusion. Pro-
badly no other man in town had bust
ness relations with us large Il number
of people. To run away from respOn-
sbilities shows weak point in char
acter but we are inclined to take the
most charitable view of the case. For
many years Mr.. Varnum had struggled
with IL load of debt which he finally
found impossible to pay or carry.
Hence, considering his stay in Peach
am of no advantage to himself or his
better elsewhere. Moral Don't run in
debt.
Recent Deaths.
Mrs. Adeline (Stocker) Williams,
widow of the late John Williams, died
Nov. % at the residence of her son,
Chas. f. Williams, in East Peacham.
She was born in Danville, March, 1912.
She leaves also one other son, Newell
S. of Danville. Her death was not IN
expected, as she had long been suf-
ferer from valvular disease of the
heart. She was. woman of marked
peculiarities OF character, but her blunt
ways and speech covered warm
heart.
Our blacksmiths are having busy
time.
The agent of the VT. Mutual fire in
surance company was in town Monday
to settle with G.. A. Hutchinson for the
loss of his milk house. Mr.. Hutchin
son left lamp burning over night in
his milk house and in the morning the
building wasn't there.
Mrs. j. o. Cowles, who had an apo
plectic attack in October and has since
been a helpless invalid, passed quietly
to the other world on the morning of
Dec. 2. Three daughters, Susie, Flora,
and Fannie were with her at the time
of her death. The other children are
scattered over the West.
RYEGATE.
Our village school commences next
week, Nellie Harvey of Barnet, teach
er.
The w. G.. Il. u, give an entertain
ment this week Friday evening at the
house of NJ. r. Gray.
GrOtOn this week into |. M. Ricker's
house, takes boarders and drives Il
team for Mr.. Kicker.
A deer was found drowned in the
pond near John A. McLam's house
few days ago, supposed to have at
tempted to cross the ice and broke
through. 1t was thought he would
weigh 400 lbs, us he was very fat.
The railroad company has kindly
furnished lumber for a shed at Ryegate
station and the patrons of the station
have built substantial shed 16xlO0
feet, convenience that has been
needed for long time, and now we
wish publicly to express our thanks to
the company for what they have done
for the station during the last the
months. We think if our worthy
agents pay was increased it would be
another step in the right direction.
Last Saturday evening two young
bloods (nOt IL thousand miles from
here) thought to go and see their girls,
and wishing to look as attractive as
possible used hair oil very literally,
both from the same bottle. Immedi-
ately one exclaimed "What smells so
strongly of turpentine 2" when the 9th
er remarked "Surely there is turpen-
tine somewhere" On investigation
they found that they had 60 horror of
horrors y used from bottle of turpen-
tine that stood on the same shelf with
the oil. In their haste they had not
noticed the difference. Let us draw a
veil over the scene that followed.