Published by admin on Tue, 01/05/2021 - 12:22pm
Normally on the first week of the month I talk about what went on 120 years ago, but I couldn't this time because there are no newspapers from January of 1881, so I went back one year to 1880.
The month began with the announcement that “Sixteen hundred car loads of coal were shipped from here during the six working days ending on Thursday evening. Richard Pope knows how it feels, too. He was badly squeezed in Eureka shaft, No. 1, Tuesday, by stone falling from the face of his room.”