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iiNmbAt 6M6SM i ii46/•v5AilCj« UlAXCfci .tiiCii JUSL iXVJC^.UiuL v* ^Zauy Ii.Ui\iiucJw ao £u-*io Xcu’ in IucjUit uii one WuUioi* uv ui a Coinp ut inuUcatia^ aua eavmg an me oinera aiuue, com-1jarauveiy, but if tne Oi' Girl evlt;u naue a reeoru m iior wurk or cen-uries 25ne lias xaaae it in our campVn tile tilings siie lias done to Mrs. \Y. J. Vachon.For years ana years and years virs. Vaciion has worked and slaved tnd saved and tried to rear a family md build a'home down at Tolovaria. lusi when she was getting a good j tart lire came along and destroyed ler home and burned to death three9f her babies and nearly burned herinband to death. But, like eouia mch as she, she 3tuck, rebuilt and vent on with life's game uncomjplain-ngly. Then came 01' Hardluck igaln and she had touring her msband to the hospital here and vatch him die slowly for months md then bury him. Expenses antf rouble and losses forced her, with hree baby girls on her hands and heir future to consider, to kill the oxes which constituted her fox farm md which she could not attend to alone ind prepare to close up and sell oat md get back East to relatives where4he would have protection thru her »wn people, and she has been trying or months to sell out, even raffling ler valuable fur coat which she will 101 need in the warmer country, to aise all the money she could for the u-ure. While at Nenana and Fair-Kinks selling tickects on the coat, herabies here in the care lt;5* friends vhile she worked for their future oday she receives a belated wire roni Tanana, which reads as follows:1iir€tCsfc€ertti.fsctEVERYTHING WIPED OUTTANANA, » THURSDAY—Newman man in charge at Tolovana in Mrs. 'achon’s absence) w'ires Peter Yachon) here this morning that your oadhouse and. living Quarters andtore (at Tolovana) were burned to«lie ground between 5 and 6 thisjorning{ Thursday). Newman first*lOticed the fire when he was down t the fisliwheel, but the fire had oo* much of a start and he could :oi save anything. Peter is going :p there on the Yukon when it r ri\-es.ANDREW VAC HONanrSTILL CARRYING ON * -Nobody, not even Mrs. Vachon, nows what this loss will mean to er in ihe years to come. All her apers, pictures, meanentos and all tie clothes of her babies and herselfhat they haven’t with them—all• * ■ * . . one up in smoke, and many things upossible to replace.Unluck and disaster, one after the ther, has seemed to follow her losely for year after year. Sorrow nd disaster and death have whiten-« id her head and seared her hear-and irrowed he^ brow7, but she can still mile apd ipok up png say; “Notb-ig else matters now, so that 1 ave my three babies and nothingurts FHEM.”Just a few women like that could ave a world.wtlt;vtlt;tlgwSlib:O]tcasj
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Fairbanks Weekly News Miner
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Fri, Oct 08, 1920
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