Good old days

8 years ago

December 31, 1886

The Opera hall is gaily decorated with evergreens and tissue paper for the firemen’s ball this evening. Tickets to trip the light fantastic are $1.50.

A miner who had not been shaved for thirty years was operated upon at one of our barber shops last week.

DePencier’s heavy truck team are irresistible when they take it into their heads to run away, as was the case Friday. They struck out for the stable, demolishing a few awning posts en route and barely missed trampling a small team under foot. A runaway team of that caliber gives tone to this exhilarating pastim...