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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1899)
iKiJ.Jim lH 9 THE GOUIRBR , v w IB' M f.-r ' ','' I- "M r i- party on Thursday in honor of Mien Lydla Moore. Guest a to the number of forty enjoyed Mies Watkins' hospi tality . The house was prettily de corated with cannaa goldenrod and sunflowers, and the verandahs wore made cosy nnd inviting with rugs and cushions. Some delightful music was furnished by Misses Anna Ensign, Jes sie Lansing and Eleanor Raymond. The party was rather, informal, and sewing and chatter filled the hours from ten to twelve. Refreshments consisting of ice cream and cakes were served. Miss Moore, who has been Miss Wat kins' guest during the past week wil leave for Chicago on Sunday. A reception was givon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. 0. Smith on 28th and Holdrege, in honor of the home-coming of their son A. J. Smith of Co. B. The evening was spent in listening to a few of the experiences, both serious and amusing, of Mr. Smith's army life, after which a delightful lunch was served. The invited guests were Mesdames Perin.Kelloy.Swa'n, Perin.and Hummel; Messrs Tuck and Perin. Prof, and Mrs. Lewis W. Smith of Tabor College, Iowa, arrived laBt week. Prof. Smith is in charge of the depart ment of English Literature at Tabor College. He expects to return to his home this week. Mrs. Smith who b here for her health will remain three monthB. Mrs. Smith will room at the Y. WrC. A. home on the corner of Twelfth and P streets. On Tuesday night Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Chapman prepared a banquet and feasted their con erdo upon his return from the wars. About twenty-two rela tives of the young soldier sat down to the midnight dinner. Those from abroad included Dr. Chapman and Miss Lola Chapman of Missouri Valley, and Mr. and Mrs. N. V. Cole of Michigan City. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sanderson, for merly of St. Louis, art ived in Lincoln Wednesday evening last. Mr. and Mrs. Sanderson will reside at 1645 Locust street. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cottrel, uncle and aunt of Mrs. Sanderson, are expected to arrive next week and will make their home with Mr. and Mrs. Sanderson. Married, on Sunday, August 27, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Kaufman, 3204 W street, Miss Emma Marie Hodolf or Avoca to Charles Alfred Kaufman of Agnew. A wedding breakfast was served immediately after the ceremony and Mr. and Mrs. Kaufman left for their home at Agnew. Dr. Samuel Avery, professor in the chemical department of the State Uni versity, left Tuesday morning for Mos cow, Idaho, whither he goes to take charge of the chemical department of the Idaho State University at Moscow. Dr. Avery leaves a host of warm friends in Lincoln who regret his loss and wish him all success in his new work. A party of young people enjoyed a fail on Burlington lake on last Friday evening. Those participating were Misses Gregory, Watkins, Moore of Mad. ieon, Wis., Moody, Cochrane. Messrs Walsh, Gregory, McOreery, and Clyds Hayes. Mr. John Randolph returned from a trip through the east the first of the week. Mr. Randolph hue spent some time at Point Chatauqua.New York, and has improved the vacation hours in BtudyiWith Edwin J. Meyer, widely known in musical circles. Misa Perkins passed through Lincoln the first of the week enroute from Ta coma to Moline, la., where she will spend two or three days. Miss Perkins is expected in Lincoln early next week. Mrs. M. J. Prey was called to Omaha last Saturday by the illness of her daughter Mrs. Isaac Knotts. She re turned on Wednesday afternoon leaviog the invalid convalescent. Married, Wednesday, August 30, at three o'clock, at the St. Paul parsonage, Miss M. Lillian Fuller of Seward to Mr. Harry R. Kellog of Prophetstown, III., by the Rev. Wharton pastor of St. Paul's M. E. church. Married, on Wednesday August 30, at eleven o'clock, at St. Paul's parsonage, Miss May Simon of College View to Mr. William Hurbert of Panama, Rev. Dr. Wharton, pastor of St. Paul's M, E. church officiating. Congressman Burkett went to Mc Cook Tuesday upon invitation from the Modern Woodmen of that place. On Thursday he spoke to the same organi zation at Lexington. Mr. O. L. 8hader who has been seri ously ill, has improved sufficiently to bear removal from the hospital to his home, and is now believed to be on the way to recovery. Mrs. James Burk of 3010 T street is recovering from a very serious illness caused by a wound in the hand, made by a shattered window pane during a storm early in the summer. Clinton M. Parr left Monday for Co. zad to assume hiB duties as superintend ant of schools in that place. Mr. Barr is a graduate of the state university. Miss Maud Maine of Elm wood at rived Monday. Mies Maine expects to spend the winter in Lincoln and will live at the Y. W. O. A. home. . Mr. E U. Matthews, Master Edward, Roy, and Miss Grace Matthews spent the first three days of the week in Omaha enjoying the fair. Rev. H. Brosa left Tuesday for a trip through the east. Mr. Brosa expects to visit Beloit, Wis., Boston, and Philadel phia during his absence. Hair Dressing, Shampooing, Scalp Treatment, Manicuring, and Switch Work. Anne Rivet t and Agnes Rawlings 143 South 12th street. Mrs. Jas. H. Spencer has returned from Colorado where she has been spend ing several weeks chiefly in Colorado Springe and Denver. For the next thirty days we will eel Gai, Electric, and Combination Fixtures at 20 per cent off. Korrmeyer Plumbing and Heating Co. Miss Walker of Sabetha, Kansas, is expected in Lincoln today. Miss Walker will be a student at the University School of Music. Mrs. B. F. Bailey returned Wednee day from Sault Ste Marie where she has been resting after a somewhat ex tended trip east. Mr. and Mrs. N. V. Cole or Michigan City who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Loomis left on Wednesday. Mr. Allen C. Fling has returned to Nebraska City. Mr. Fling has been visiting his brother Prof. F. M. Fling. Mr. Fred R. Eastetday is spending two weeks in Iowa and Illinois, Mr. Eaterday left last Saturday. Mis. P. V. M, Raymond, Mr, Frank Raymond and Mrs. Stella Rice returned Thursday from a visit to the lakes. Mr. and Mrs, A. E. Small have gone to Sioux City, Iowa, where they will make their home in the future. Mr. C. B. Gregory left Thursday with visits to Wyoming points and Sylvan Lake in perspective. Miss Myrta Whited returned Tuesday from Beatrice whore she has been visit ing friends. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Teeters returned last Friday from an outing in Michigan. Miss A. L. Hoover and Misa Louise Hoover have gone to Chicago to visit friends. Miss Moore, a Delta Gamma, of Madi son, Wisconsin, is visiting Miss Clara Watkins. Mrs. T. W. Griffith has goue to Port Huron, Mich., to v'sit her sister Mrs. Walsh. Mr. and Mrs. John Dowden have re turned from a trip through California. Prof. F. W. Taylor, of Buffalo, N. Y., spent Thursday and Friday in Lincoln. MiBS Roe of Shenadoab, Iowa, ar rived in Lincoln on Friday last. Mr. G. O. St. John of New York was in Lincoln Tuesday. Mr. J. W. Searson of Waboo spent last Sunday in this city. Miss Ella Don Carlos has gone to Fort Collins, Colorado. Miss Ellen Sirord is spending the week in Omaha. Mrs. D. A. Rieser has returned from Petoskey, Mich. Mr. D. Avery Haggnrd has returned to St. Paul. H M Dunn, dentist; rooms 26-27 Burr blk Died: Wednesday August 30 at 9:15 A. M., Mrs. Ellen Shea. Died: On Friday August 25, at Hous ton, Texas, Mrs. E. P. French, formerly of this city. Died: Saturday August 26 at her home near Woodlawn, Mrs. Isaac Thatcher aged fifty -seven years. Died: On Saturday August 26, Emma May. infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bart Ritchie of WeBt Lincoln. The in terment took place at Wyuka, Sunday afternoon. Died: Wednesday August 30, at' her home at 1220 L street, Mrs. J. O. Carter, wire or Dr. J. O.Carter. Mrs. Carter has lived in Lincoln for many years. She was a gentlewoman and the mother or five children who have grown up to be an honor to their parents. The death of Mrs. Damrow, her oldest daughter, not long ago, was a great shock to Mrs. Carter. The family have the sympathy of a large circle of friends. ON OUR NEIGHBOR'S DOORSTEP. CARRYINO COALS TO NEWOABTLK. ByFloba Bullook. You cannot well visit Newcastle with out going up- to pay your respects to Cambria, the "coal-black lady" of the Hills. You will find her very cordial and hospitable, and in spite of her un Caucisian color, or perhaps on account of it, very interesting. There is more to be learned in that little corner whero two narrow canyons meet and where you are shut off with about forty-five degrees of sky than you might think when you first come in sight of the smoke, the coal dust, and the roaring "tipple," the heart of Cambria. It is an utterly unbeautif ul camp never call it a town; you would be met by the same puzzled stare which was my lot when 1, Nebraska wise, called a ranch a rarm; it is dirty and noisy and far away from the best things of the world. Still, a place whore engines roar, where men work with their hands skillfully, where everyone is doing something, is-always worth udmiration. Cambria is such a place and it holds its bead rather high, too, because it must maintain the repu tation or being the finest -coal mining camp in the United States. While standing on the platform of the Newcastle station one morning 1 saw three tall men stop the empty coal train just starting for Cambria and climb into one or the box-cars a dangerous privilege granted to but rew. A littl e farther up the road not even the Kilpatrick brothers could stop the Hill train either going up or coming down. For old number 273 with her five pairs or huge drive-wheels puffs tremendously as she pushes twenty empty cars ahead or her up the seven miles and the 7 00 feet rise in altitude which lies between Newcastle and the camp. It Is a pretty fight with gravity. The down trip is another story, as the engine is only a big brake holding back the loaded car s with might and main. The st ory 1b likely to become exciting so that it always seems that the big ma chine sticks another feathtr in her cap every time she glides smoothly into the Newcastle yards with her trust in safety. The three men, however, might stop the down train if simply their word could do it. As the controlling stock holders or the Cambria mining company the Kilpatrick brothers, of Beatrice, are very commanding figures in Cambria and its parasitic town, Newcastle. Not very many men are privileged to own a town, and or those who do most are notorious rather than famous. But, as far as I could learn, Kilpatrick brothers and Collins, with the shadowy company behind them, seem to fill their role very gracefully. And though Cambrians sometimes think, with good old Anglo Saxon instincts, that they would like to own something beyond their household goods and the clothes they wear, they seem fairly well satis fl cd to live In a "company town." It may be that they so metimee long for the mild excitement of council meeting or a bond proposition, and I know they do not all like the potion or going seven miles to the six saloons maintained at Newcastle for their benefit. But "the company" is supreme It owns just about everything except the air, and even that is polluted by the smoke and coal dust rrom the smokestacks and coal dumps and jarred continually by the roar or the engines and other ma chinery. I do not know how many "bunches' ot gold the company pocket book contains. It doesn't matter so much. The men who have taken hold and developed a great natural resource and built up a finely equipped mining plant have satisfaction which mere money cannot give, Then, too, they are more respected than most landlords, though the tendency of the race to re gard every man who owns mora than enough to pay his funeral expenses u an object or suspicion occasionally crops out. Cambria consists of the coke ovens, picturesque glows at night, but as re pliant as a barn on fire in the daytime, then the "tipple," with its roar and its shroud or gray dust, and then the one residence street "tin-can alley" lined with ltttlo "fac simile" tenement houses and going on up till the hills split it in two. There are suburb, of course. Dagoville farther up the main canyon, and the school house settlement, Ante lope City on top of the hill out of- sight of the real Cambria; the hill is so lofty that if you mounted the steps at the rate of one a day it would take you just a year to reach the top. But taken altogether the camp would hardly cover the Capitol grounds in Lincoln. "Tin can alley" doss not belie its name. The houses are jammed against the hillsides. Not even the most aristocratic Cam brlan can boast or a back yard. So this street is strewn with tin cans, ashes and other refuse which is carted decent ly away from time to time, Each house has a number, like a prison cell, and the company furnishes electric light for all. Mr. E. O. Heywood, a former university student, is head electrician of the place. As for Dagoville, I fear the company woUld never admit that it owned that clump of mysteriously constructed shacks, dugouts and miners cabins. v U, &:1&tf 3fr&&Jt&! i t. mi i unirr saiBBsWgfwr