Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-02-11
A GRAND FINALE.

n uhSNU riNAlE.
Its Frienas-A Fitting Close of the
Winter Dancing season.
The bachelors club, which needs no
Introduction, gave the last OF it's winter
parties at the Morrison hotel last even
ing and what has been said of ell former
parties may be repeated with emphasis
at this juncture. The married people
Of the city were invited to participate,
and those OF that distinction who ac-
cspted were fully repaid. The ladies
never we're SO Hastily attired, while the
gentlemen were even handsomer than
ever, If that we're possible. 1t was a
success in every particular, and was o
very fitting close for the winter social
season.
The club gives no more parties until
after lent, but there has been no dis
banding and the weeks OF next summer
will be enlivensd by entertainments of
different sorts. Next winter the hops
will be resumed, and if results are what
circumstances 10 indicate the baehel-
ors' club will continue through centuries
to come, although the members do not
intend to be permanent members, and
the young ladies are skeptical upon
some points themselves. The bachelors
club has not walked upon a rose strewn
path, but those who know most about it
feel that the organization and mainte
nance OF the club has been productive of
the greatest good.
Pro tempore the club bids the tickle
world al reDeir, but pro teznpore only.
DIED.
N0ONAN-In Yankton, on Friday, February
10, 1888, Ohristoper Neonsn, aged Is years and
| two months,
It is seldom that q sadder duty falla
to the lot of u newspaper man than to
| chronicle the termination of o life not
fairly begun. And especially is such a
duty more sad, and when the subject
has been o person of exemplary habits
and methods in life. Therefore the
writing OF this obituary becomes g
solemn task-a pa~Infulduty.
Christopher Noonan. came to Yank-
ton seven years ago, with his parents.
He was introduced to the people of this
city in the capacity of messenger boy
for the Western Union telegraph COM
pany and a testimonial OF his falthfulness
10 the fact that he was retained in that
position for two years. He subsequent
ly attended the city schools and in his
studies made progress beyond
the usual student and when he
ended his school days it was
amid regrets of teachers and scholars.
Three years ago he entered the Ysnkton
school of teiegraphy and commercial
work, and in one year he graduated a
competent and careful telegraph opera
tor. He was then employed in the Mil
wAukee depot in this city, as operator
j .nG nnE keeper, where ne remained for
. year. In June of 1886 he went to Sioux
Oity and was given a position 10 the
Western Union telegraph Office, where
he was rapidly advanced and employed
until September last, when he returned
to Yankton, and accepted his former pc.
altIon with the Milwaukee. At his du-
ties thsre he remained until he was no
longer able to bear confinement and
work and he left the depot to 60 home
for o brief rest. While in Sioux C,ty he
contracted q severe cold which settled
on his lungs and produced quick CON
sumption. He was OF q delicate consti.
tuition and for year his decline has
been remarkably rapid. In Ysnkton
since September he has kept at his
work ct all hours of the night, and has
failed to seoure anything like sufficient
sleep. But he was past assistance lonR
since, and lndomitable will alone kept
him alive. Yesterday afternoon he laid
down to sleep, telling his mother that
he was much batter and that he would
wake up soon. he kept his promise, but
he awoke to look upon the light of an
other world. He died peacefully ct
twenty minutes past the hour Of 4 p. m
The dead boys fortisude and heroic
stoicism toward what he knew must be
the inevitable have been remarkable. BE
has complained and to sill words
of warning and remarks upon his condi-
zion he has always made q cheerful an
swer. In fact his life has been excep-
~tionally commendAble, and q visitor to
the homo which his death has plunged
into sorrow will be struck by the oft
repeated remark of his heart broken
mother, to the effect that she 'sneyer
heard that boy say q unkind word TO o,
toward any one." So we'll was he beloved
that his father can hardly realize that hs
ia dead, and offers OF kindly sympathy
almost drive him wild. Chris Noonan ie
known to all the patrons OF the Milwau'
kee road for his courtesy end accommo-
dating nature, and from Al OF them con.
doience has gone to the afflicted family
There is q particular sadness about thil
death that elicits more than passing IN
terest and if human sympathy can hea