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'skating on the riveri Great Crowd of Boys and Girla on IceYesterday Afternoon.This looks like old times,” remarked I the citizen, whose email boys werecapering around on the ice rink at thefoot of Jefferson street. It has been a long time since there was good skating on the river, and it brings back the days when the pastime was popular. Burlington, had some fine skater* In 1 those days. There was Peter Berens,| who was equally at home on the floor of the roller rink, or gliding over the frozen surface of the river. For several winters the town had a rink onSouth Third street in a low lot, which was flooded every night An ice track on the river proved a fine place for the owners of the fast trotters to try out their animals in a lively speed skirmish.”Several hundred boys and girls andWe make a specialtyholsterlug, repairing flnishlr g furniture. Aa sprinkling of older pr the ice yesterday after: crowd of onlooker*of flne exhibitions of fir*BURNETT. UNMEET ASEBoth 'phones. Elks’A Missouri Vet—Chnrl** of Company G, Eleventh souri Volunteer*, will campflre talk **What a Army,” at Grace M. E. row evening.
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Burlington Hawk Eye
Burlington, Iowa, US
Sun, Jan 17, 1909
Page 6
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