Jackson County IL Archives News.....LETTER FROM MRS. BURR October 16, 1923
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Murphysboro Daily Independent October 16, 1923

    Dear Mr. Rolens:

    I thank you for inviting me to tell of something of fifty years ago.  One
very memorable event was the building of the Big Muddy bridge at the end of
Ninth street and the wonderful dance at the court house to celebrate the affair.
 About this time the mines were opened at Mt. Carbon and the railroad was built
to Grand Tower.

    The old Concert hall, the first place of amusement in Murphysboro and under
the control of my husband, Gill J. BURR, Thos. HORD and Abe PUGH, where the
first shows and performances that required a stage were held.  Only one person,
that I recall, who is in our city that helped to make merry evenings, and I
think the one who sand "Digging Dusky Diamonds Underneath the Ground," is Mr.
Johnnie WILLIAMS who is now an M & O engineer.

    The many, many faces of those times that only memory can see.
Mrs. Emma R. BURR


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Transcribed by Mary Riseling from grandfather C. E. RISELING's collection of old
newspapers.

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