Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-11-13
GULCh GOSSIP.
Social and Other Happenings at Giveadam
Gulch
STILL AT THE HEAD.

Gulcb.
STILL AT THE HEAD.
IN order that no mistakes may be made
CT plumbers committed We deem ii best to
announce right here and now that the ed
itor of the Arizona Kicker who is our
self, will continue TO lead the social whirl
of Giveadam Gulch in the future in
the past There was rumor floating
around town last week that we intended
to withdraw from society this winter and
devote our evenings TO the game Of seven
up, but our friends need pay no attention
to such gossip. We have had our dress
suit cleaned up, patched and reburnished,
our white shirt heightened and over
hauled, and we shall introduce several
Chicago and st. Louis ideas into the high
teas and card parties to be held among
our elite. Our new way of tucking
blue bordered table napkin down behind
a red-spotted necktie is just too swagger
for anything, and other pleasant sur
prises will be sprung as time goes on and
opportunity admits.
THE &c. G. " IDEA.
We regret to announce that Mrs. Col
onel Anderson. Mrs. Judge Truefoot and
two or three other female leaders Of our
town society are out with address cards
in which the letters &c. G." are substi-
tuted for Giveadam Gulch This looks to
US like cutting things rather too fine.
The man who founded this town was old
Dave Coppinger. He was q man of noble
sentiments and in naming the place was
actuated by lofty patriotism. Here was
a spot where the sun always shone, and
the grass was green for ter months in
Ispoplr hrpnpht
down the mountains water as pure as
pearls, and the soil needed only to be
scratched with a stick to grow beautiful
crops. Gid Dave put up shanty. killed
bear, and as he looked around him he
decided that it was paradise on earth, ana
that he didn't give a damn for any other
locality short OF heaven. 1t pains Us
that any of our people should go back
on an honest name, Gnd one which SIG
nifies so much While &C. @, stands Tor
Giveadam GuIch. the letters also stand for
Great Guns and several other things,
and are calculated 20 mystify a stranger.
Let us have no feeling OF false pride about
this thing. Giveaaam Cullen IS euphon-
ious expressive ana significant. 1t Is q
name you can DWELL on. II strikes the
ear of a stranger with no uncertain
sound Any attempt TO change IT 70
.Rosedale" or ''Danville' would simply
mix up our saloons and poker rooms and
set society back for half century.
SOCIAL JOTTINGS.
Mrs. Brutas johnson returned from
Florence Sunday evening, after two
weeks visit to her sister, and it is under
stood that she viii give at least six hops
during the>winter. Gossip also has it that
she has new receipt for nair dye. which
makes an old gold color in one night.
We regret to announce that Major Cal
lahan. who acted as floor manager at 50
many editions last winter. will not be
with US this season. He intended 70 re-
turn rom Salt Lake last week, but
through some irregularity In handling
public funds he Will be detained" for a
year or two.
John O. Jones, the architect Informed
us the other day that he had no less than
FIVE orders for stairways on Cochise
place to replace old-fashioned ladders.
The day will soon be here when our best
residences will be provided with these
c5nvenieneeg and the ladder RELOCATED TO
the past.
Mrs. Jack Thompson arrived here the
other day on visit 10 Mrs. John Hep
worth, and may remain for a month. She
speaks three different languages, kills
rattlesnakes with a club, and is the only
woman in the territory who can skin to
the top Of an eighty-foot tree without get
ting dizzy headed.
A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.
When Mr. George Davidson took charge
of the Red Lion saloon last month he
quietly limited that ne would Introduce
eastern ways and methods 10 a consider
able extent. He has carried out his prom
ise and we take pleasure in noting the
change for the better. His bar tenders
are quiet and civil spoken. ana no clubs
or reyolvers are seen lying around loose.
All callers are treated Ike gentlemen.
and the moral atmosphere of the place at
once has an effect Now and then IL be-
comes necessary to eject some vulgar In
divtduaI. but it Is done quietly and with
out any attempt to break his neck or
drive him headnrst through wall One