Gilpin observer., 1913-09-04
IN RUSSELL GULCH

Mark Harris returned Tuesday eve
ming ON the late train from Denver.
Mr.. Harris insists that he was not
responsible for the lateness OF the
train.
T. d. Crockett sustained a broken
leg while a work in the mine Fri
day. A heavy rock fell on. Ii.
Miss Celia Grenfell slipped and
fell a few days ago, breaking her
breast bone.
Mrs. Nj. a. Trebilcock, OF Denver,
is visiting her son, Robert.
M. Starne made a trip to Denver,
returning Sunday.
Mis. G. Philpips is enjoying a va
cation in Denver.
p. Mellow went to Denver Monday
to bring Lis wife and family home.
Mrs. Mellow has been sick in Den-
yer.
All the miners laid off on Labor
day and had good time.
Bert FrisgeEs came up from Dem
Yer Monday.
Ernest Westcott returned from Bis
bee. Ariz 81 nday and intends to
remain h"r,,.
Ed. Wood and wife were up from
Denver Labor day.
Mrs. A. Vivian was visitor from
Denver ilis week.
Miss Alberta Matthews is up from
Golden, visiting the Grenfells.
Miss F. y. Young left for her home
in Massachusetts, Tuesday morning.
Ed. Young. Wife and family return
ed from few days visit in Den
yer.
The woodmen of Central came to
Russell in band wagon Friday even
ing. They gave a dance and enter
g tafnmen- in the Odd Fellows hall
and good time was enjoyed.
A new walk is being laid in front
of the Zancanella building.
Quite a number of Russelli.es are
attending cours in Central this week.
The Sunday school will convene
at this place next Sunday at 10 a.
m Epworth League at $50 p. m. and
preaching by Hugh Lawry at Z p.
m. All are invited to these services.
The pastor is in attendance upon the
Colorado Annual Conference at Boul-
der.
Mike Reidl has been confined to
his bed the past week with slight
attack OF pneumonia.
Nearly all the famed experts of our
town We're in Central during the
past week as witnesses in the cele-
brated suit of the Old Town NJ. NJ.
G. T. Co., VS.. Joe Ress, ct. al, and
rumor has it that some of them are
to act as personal diplomats for
President Wilson, in settling this
Mexican controversy
Several of our boys who were ma
rooned the other night by the land
slide on the c. & S. tracks assisted
the trainmen in transporting the bag
gage and express frcm one train to
the other. 1t was a rare sight TO
see Rich Hughes, Humphrey Williams
along that narrow path, laden with
boxes of fruit and kegs of sauer-kraut
with the turbid waters of Clear Creek
lashing its banks with fury in It's
onward march to the southern gulf. 1t
reminded one of the pictures in our
told Biographies, illustrating the an
cient Bedouin crossing the Sahara
desert.
AS Charles Fasser, of ellison gulch.
was returning from Russell late Sun
day night and quietly meandering in
about the forest back of the From
tenac mine, perhaps thinking of the
loved ones at home, and drinking
in the beauties of the glorious land
scape by moonlight, there suddenly
appeared before him two huge noun
tain lions with cat-like tread and
dilated nostrils, seeking whom they
might devour of a biped nature. Our
friend Charley, quick to realize that
live coward was better than a
dead hero, was not slow to give an
exhibition of the turkey trot waltz
adown the hill to the tune of, "Meet
Me BY Moonlight Alone" Don't for
get the brand that inspired this Won
derful phenomenon was of the win
tage of 1884,
The case of the Old Town NJ NJ.