Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-03-24
STATELINE.

Stateline, Utah, March 20, 1916.
Mrs. Tilley has not been very well
the past few days, but is feeling some
what better now.
Lake on business, is now back. He
came up Sunday.
c. w. O'Grain came up from his
ranch to spend st. Patrick's. He went
back Sunday.
his family from Cedar City, are COM
ing out here for the summer. He is
probably figuring on doing some min
ing. Hurry up, Lon.
st. Patrick's Day passed in rather
an agreeable way here. At night a
dance was held in which everybody
participated, and danced until they
were ready to call quits. A lunch was
served. Miss Bryant was booked to
render several new songs, Mrs. john
son sang "The Silvery Colorado" and
the boys from the valley also had
their turn, while Mr.. Warner recited
"Mary Had a Little Lamb" in a most
touching manner.
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The boys and young men about
town and the surrounding valley have
organized gymnasium, and on the
evening of Saint Patrick's they pulled
off several matches and some of the
boxers were christened with names Of
prominent pugs. The first bout of
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caster and Tom Drake kid Drake
The next was a lively set-to between
the Drake twins; next was four
round bout between Kid Drake and
Battling Bowers. Mr.. Bowers gave
Tom some good pointers and made
him look to his guarding, for Mr..
Bowers is very clever, having fought
ten round draw with an amateur
champion at Taft, California, two
years ago.
Said 1t Was Time to Quit.
Mr.. Flinspach says that he has OPP
ened up some more good milling ore
in his workings which looks very
promising. He was asked what val
ues it carries, but said he didn't know
as he hadn't had any assays made
yet. He said that where he was
working it was about all manganese,
and every night his face and hands
were as black as a stove pipe; and
that it reminded him of little Incl
dent that happened here some years
ago to friend Of ours who we will
call "Mr. Bill" and who now lives in
town near by. "Well," said Mr..
Flinspach, "Mr Bill had been running
the stage between here and Modena
and his contract had run out and he
decided to try the mines until he
could better himself. He went to
work on Monday morning at the. John
ny mine, and It was his first exper-
fence in mine. Well, when noon came
Mr.. Bill decided that half day was
good enough starter for the first
day and as he had been working in
the manganese he had gotten a black
polish on his face that would put the
color of Jack Johnson to the discord a
hundred ways. Mr.. Bill started for
home to get hot dinner and think
it over. On his way home he met his
small daughter, who was bringing his
lunch, and when she came quite near
she became frightened and began to
run and scream. Mr.. Bill tried to
reassure her, but the more he called
to her the more frightened she be-
come, and as last resort he started
TO run to overtake the fleeing child.
Seeing the strange black man pursu-
ing her, the child was worse frightened
than ever, and Mr.. Bill positively had
to run the girl down before he came
up with her. Even then he had hard
job to reassure her, and it was only
after he had reached home with her
and washed up that his daughter
would recognize him. Mr.. Bill never
went back to work in the mine. for
he said that when a person works in
such a place that his own child don't
know him II is time to quit" Mr.
| Bill is probably still thinking Il over