Gilpin observer., 1899-02-16
NEvADAvILLE.

There is young man of the town who
has patent right on the song of jamie,
Wait Till the Clouds Roll By"
FouND-A pair of gold spectacles. The
owner can have the same by calling at
this Office and paying for this notice.
The Moonshiners' club held another
very pleasant party at the Light House
on the Hill, of Thos. Doyle, last Thurs
day night.
Robert Coombs, an old and highly re-
spected citizen, who has been having a
hard seige with an attack of la grippe, is
convalescing.
Gauged by the thermometers, Nevada
vile must be about as far north as Nan
sen got on his perllous trip in search of
the north pole.
The play, Tennessee's Pardner." to
be presented at the opera house in Cen
tral City Saturday evening, is charm
ing story, charmingly told.
A very interesting communication of
Nevada lodge No. 4, A. F. and A. NJ, was
held at Masonic hall last Saturday even
ing. 1t was well attended.
Although the weather has been very
blustery, the attendance of scholars at
the public schools has been remarkably
large for the past two weeks.
The Nevadaville pports say there is no
fun sleighing when the Thermometer
registers from 10 to 20 degrees below
zero, not even with ones best girl
VIM. Steadman, John Hennessy and
Tony Stobey, all of this town, left for
Toulome county, California, last Friday.
The boys will be missed among the young
society folks.
The festival announced to be held last
Saturday evening, for the benefit of the
Centennial M. e. church, owing to the
inclement weather, was postponed until
last Tuesday evening.
John Maddern's livery business has
assumed such magnitude that he has
been compelled to secure another barn.
He has secured the Semmens barn on
the south side of Main street, below his
business stand.
a number of the friends of John Hen
nessey, William Steadman and Tony
Stobey, gave them farewell party at the
residence of Mrs. P. Murphy last Tues
day evening, prior to their taking their
departure for California.
Another wedding is on the tapis,
which has set people to guessing. Know
ing ones claim that prominent bach
elor of the Town OF Mines has become
tired OF bachelorhood and will become a
benedict soon after the Lenten season.
The cold weather has affected the
Bachelors club of this place to such an
extent that its members are now nego-
tiating term with the lonely widows and
well-to-do and handsome unmarried la
dies with view to matrmony. A SEN
sible idea.
Mayor j. j. Clark informs The OBsER-
vEE that the scarcity of coal in the Town
OF Mines is not half the discontinue to
the citizens as the water famine. Fully
one-third of the families are compelled
to melt snow for domestic purposes. He
thinks that three or four days of strong
sunshine would be boon to the COM
munity.
The snow is very badly drifted. As
soon as you enter East Nevadaville. the
residences of Al Christopher and Others
in the immediate vicinity, have snow
piled up against them on the east side to
their caves. In hcupper portion OF Ne
vadaville it is much worse. The residence
OF Mr.. Nichols, which was almost sur
rounded with drifted snow, had to be
braced from the inside to keep the walls
from bursting in, SO great was the press
ure of the snow.
We hope the weather may be changed
for the better.
Mr.. Kenwell has received eight fine
pictures OF eminent men, 24x2S inchea,
with fine walnut frames, for the high
school room.
The young ladies of the NJ. e. Sunday
school gave social and supper at Can.
mons hall Tuesday evening. A very
pleasant time ia reported. The Indies
feel well pleased with tho proceeds
The teachers win all resume their
work for the school program, which, on
account OF sickness, bad weather. etc,
could not be satisfactorily prepared for
Fob. q, as was hoped. The program
will be announced in the papers later.
Fred s. Bolsingcr, of the Vendomc
Mining and Milling company, left for
Chatiield, Minnesota, yesterday. He
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