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Show The Fou-th ward glee club sang the old year out and the new year in, Dur ing all of Monday night and until the new year dawned, they were serenading their friends in the eastern part of the city, and right welcome to all was that eereiiade. Several of them were heard by The Dispatch scribe, although the club did not know it, and seemed to intend in-tend it that he should not hear them. What came near being a fatal accident ac-cident occurred one block north of the factory on Monday afternoon la3t. Macgie the 12-year-old daughter and Mary the 5-year-old daughter of Mrs. Euphauiie Watson, together with a little neighbor's boy, Sumner by name, were amusing themselves "by climbing up the bank of the mill-race and riding down again on a sled. They rested at the top of the hill on a foot bridge that crossed the race, and from there got the start for the ride down hill. All three of the little folks fell from this bridge on the north side. The race was carrying carry-ing a big stream of water and they were floated south under the bridge. The oldest girl got out of the water after af-ter having passed under the bridge, but the other two were carried south very nearly to the factory, when the plucky little brother of Maggie and Mary, Andrew, reached the scene, plunged in the ivater and succeeded in getting the two children, who had each sank twice -and - were nearly j drowned, out upon terra firma. It was a close call and an accident that should teach parents living near the race to increase their watchfulness over their children. Today is the seventieth anniversary of the birth of Mrs. Johanna Eggertsen, mother of Andrew Egsertsen, the prosperous pros-perous wesi end merchant, and thie afternoon the family are having a grand reunion, idother Eggertsen is hale and hearty and her hcet of friends, a mong whom TnE DisrATcn i3 numbered, num-bered, are sincerely wishing her many happy returns of the day. |
