Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-01-15
BRIEF MENTION.


$1,000 in the Sutro hospital fund.
The Sutro public school re-opened
last Monday, with Profe ssor Booher
and Mrs. Walker as teachers.
The Winter and Spring term of the
Dayton school began last Monday,
with eighty five scholars on the roll.
George Barton wants it distinctly
understood that he has not CONSOLE
dated with Dallas's stage line, and
don't intend to.
Divine services will be held in the
courthouse, Dayton, to morrow (Sun-
day) evening, at Z o'clock. The Rev.
Mr.. Eastman will officiate.
Fred. WHEEL and Martha A. Win
zell have filed declaration of home
stead on the house and lot on Pike
street, Dayton, formerly known as
the George w. Shaw premises.
The liberty pole in the plaza at
Silver City was broken in three
pieces by the wind, last Thursday
night, 1t was about twenty inches
in diameter at the base aud ninety
feet high, and had been standing
since tho early sixties. 1t broke
level with the ground.
Mrs. Winzell left for San Jose,
Cal, with her children, last Sunday.
She was accompanied by Miss Jaqua,
of Dayton, who goes to complete her
education at the Convent of Notre
Dame, 10 San Jose. Miss J4qua will
probably not return home before next
Christmas.
Miss Rachel Young, of Greenfield,
Mason VALLEY, has been engaged to
teach the Wabuska school TOR the
ensuing term. Miss Young has de-
posted with the Superintendent Of
Pubic Schools second grade certi-
tcatc issued by the State Board of
California in June, 1873.
Mr.. Alcorn, one of the trustees of
Churchill district, was in town last
Thursday. He says that the funds
on hand are not sufficient to pay tie
teachers salary, hut that the trustees
will make out rate bills and if the
parents pay them the school will be
kept open for the tulI term.
There WAS bear and dog fight
at Sutro last .hur-d,lv evening.
Rruin drove off ~ OUT half u dozen
dogs without any trouble, bat Com
ways bulldog finally caught hold
OF his nose and was proceeding to
make things interesting for him,
when the combatants we're parted.
All the cast iron work which will
be required in the erection If a
smelling furnace at the Ludwig cop
per mine, near Walker river, crossed
the ferry from oakland to San Fran.
cisco last Wednesday. As soon as
it reaches the Mound House teams
will carry 1t through TO its destiua-
ton.
With the proceeds OF the Christmas
entertainment the trustees If the
Sutro public school have purchased
two large blackboaras and had the
schoOlhouse scrubbed and cleaned.
The people of Sutro are justly proud
of their schoolhouse, as, although 1t
cost 81 800, they raised nearly three
fourths of the amount by private
subscription.
j. II. {" young Joe') Douglass, of
Virginia, was in town last Wednes-
day and Thursday. lie came down
Tuesday evening, intending to leave
the following morning for the Doug
lass ranch, in Mason Valley, but the
storm compelled him to delay his
departure until Thursday afternoon.
About 5000 acres of the Douglass
ranch are fenced in, and $500 acres
more will be fenced in this year.
Last Monday night the flagstaff of
,Cooper's Hall, in Virginia, was
,wrencbed off below the comb of the
roof, and thrown into the middle of
b street. The staff is of galvanized
iron, sixty five feet long, and fitted
on timber l0xl0. The timber
broke short. Something remarkable
in this occurrence is that the staff
/, was carried clear of the telegraph
wires which run parallel with the
building.
]. F. Angel, of Silver City, was in
f. Dayton last Monday. He dropped
in at the TINES office to extend his