St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-07-13
Peacham.
Col. Geo. B. M. Harvey to Attend Library
Centennial August 10.

Col. Geo. B. M Harvey to Attend Library
Centennial August Is.
! Quite extensive preparations are being
made for celebrating the centennial OF
the Peacham Public Library, August 16.
1t is expected that Col. Geo. B. NJ. Har,
vey will be present.
| Mrs George Martin and daughter
| Mrs. Lulu Richmond. of Seattle, Wash
are visiting friends in town.
Miss Nellie Nj. Harvey had a New
| England telephone installed in her home
| last week.
Mrs. Ida Exley, Mrs. Clara Coursen,
Miss Goldie Taylor and Glenn Chandler
| took the teachers examination Thurs
day and Friday.
Miss Jessie Varnum is home from her
school at Detroit, Mich.
Miss Elsie Choate, teacher at Need
ham, Mass, is home for her summer
vacation.
Miss Rubie Wilson will teach in Wal
den this fall
r. w. Palmer of Waterbury has been
engaged as principal at Peacham Acad-
envy the coming year. Mr.. Palmer has
taught the past two years at Lyndon.
A 10 pound daughter arrived at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Goss,
Wednesday, July 6.
Quite a number from town attended
the funeral of Henry !. Williams at Har-
vey, Saturday.
Our popular stage driver. Warren
Chapman, treated his friends to a nice
little surprise last Saturday, July 2, by
his marriage to Miss Buzzell of New
bury, a former teacher in this town.
Tuesday he made his customary trip
from Barnet bringing with him in addi-
ton to the usual supply of mail box of
wedding cigars.
Leonard Renfrew of New York and
Mrs. Meroe Renfrew of Craftsbury were
called here last week by the serious ILL
ness and death of Mrs. Eliza Renfrew.
Mrs. Hayes was at Marshfeld two
days last week.
Mrs. William Houghton and two
daughters visited her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Needham. and her sister,
Mrs. Lewis Mclaughlin, last week.
Walter Morse of St. Johnsbury is visit
ing his grandparents. Mr.. and Mrs. John
Morse.
Mrs. George Smith was at St. Johns
bury, Tuesday and at West Danville,
Friday.
Mrs. Clarence Bennett of St. Johns
bury is visiting her sister, Mrs. E. d.
Somers.
Edith Pope and daughter of West
Danville are stopping a few days at
James Stevenson's.
Mrs. Harriet Macdonald of Ports
mouth. N. H.. has come to James Steven
sons for the summer.
Wallace Powers visited at ST. Johns
bury, Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. E. D. Somers was at Barnet,
Wednesday.
Mrs. Frank Powers and children, who
have been visiting in East Haven, re-
turned home Tuesday.
Mrs. Jennie Dana and sen, Charles,
who have been visiting at James
Young's, returned to their home at St.
Johnsbury, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hancock of Har-
vey and Charles Sway of West Danville
visited at Adelbert Woodward's last
week.
Mrs. Eliza Mum, who has been on a
visit to Hardwick, returned home Satur-
day.
(From another correspondent
Death of Eliza Renfrew.
Mrs. Eliza Renfrew, who has been ill
and confined to the house since the
middle of February, died Saturday, July
9. Her son, Frank, from Manchester,
N. H., had been with her the last week,
and her son, Leonard, from BROOKLYN,
N. Y. had been with her for several
days. She was born in Groton, March
10, 1843, and lived there until the family
moved to Peacham in 1889. Her hus-
band, Park Renfrew, died several years
ago, but she is survived by FIVE children,
the three youngest, Misses Anna, Blanche,
and Harlan, who lived with her, one
sister, Mrs. Meroe Renfrew, of Crafts
bury. and Leonard WEIGH of Peacham
Mrs. Renfrew was devoted mother, a
kind neighbor, and an interested member
of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union. and will be missed by them as
well as by large circle of friends both in
Peacham and Groton. The body was
taken Monday morning to Groton where
the funeral was held in the Baptist
church of which she was a member
Miss Lucille Way and Miss Elm Watts
from Mortified, Mimi, have been visit
ing Mrs. Ella Choate. Miss Way is a
granddaughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Way, and Miss Watts a cousin of Mrs. |
Choate.
Mrs. Minnie Howe from Marshall |
town, Iowa, is visiting her cousins, the |
Bicktord sisters. Mrs. Howe was a |
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Var
mum formerly of Peacham.
Mrs. Bessie Gray Fullson from North |
Montpelier has been visiting the past |
week at Charles Kinerson's.
EAST BARNET.
Mrs. Nancy Morse underwent a very |
operation at BrightlOOk |