Gilpin observer., 1914-08-27

day, after several days pleasantly
spent with relatives and friends in
Golden, Colo.
Charles Beall arrived the first of
the week from Golden to visit with
his father and to investigate the
headwaters of the turbid stream that
flows through the college CITY,"
Gussie and Robert Grutzmacher left
Sunday for a visit to Golden and to
spend several days with their sister,
Mrs. Maughan.
Mrs. Huntington, who has been vis-
iting John Stroehle and family for
two weeks, returned to her home in
Denver Sunday.
Mrs. VIM. Saunders visited with
friends in Apex and incidentally
gathered few berries.
Mrs. Barker and son, Lucius Cobb,
after a pleasant visit with Thomas
Dunstone and family, returned to
their home in Denver Tuesday.
Mrs. Jud kriley and Mrs. Milton
Flick left Tuesday on a camping and
berry picking trip.
There is an old maxim that says,
THE mills of the Gods grind slowly,
but they grind exceedingly fine" but
If one could have beheld Gregory
street after the heavy rain storm of
last FRIDAY NIGHT har
said that the Almighty was not at all
particular OF the material furnished
for automobile highways. The new
flume recently constructed choked
with sand and debris, and a two-foot
volume of water was turned into the
street, carrying everything before it.
The flume will have to be cleared of
the sand and gravel that in places
reaches to the top, thus entailing a
great expense to tie city. The fire.
quent heavy rains this season have
not only been source of annoyance
but great expense to the taxpayer
and II is to be hoped that the rainy
period has been passed.
Mrs. E. Barker, of Denver. is a
guest OF Thomas Dunstone and fam
ily.
w c. Stevens went to Denver Sun
day morning, returning the same
evening
The machine shop of the Fifty Gold
Mines corporation that stands near
the track of the c. & S. railway was
found to be on fire last Monday
morning after the engine pulling the
Huckleberry express had passed. Mr..
Mitchell and Mr. Flick saw the fire
in its incipient stage and soon ex-
tinguished it. This is the third time
this building has caught fire from
the sparks Of passing engines and
the company should put screens over
the top of the smoke stacks of their
engines on the branch lines of the
Huckleberry special.
Berry pickers are numerous these
days and those who have returned
are laden with Huckleberries, black
currants and raspberries, and report
the bushes full of the luscious fruit.
d. w. Taylor, the obliging agent
OF the c. & S. at the Black Hawk
depot, left Monday morning for Pu-
eblo-not as a fit subject, but as a
delegate to attend the annual session
OF the X. of P. grand lodge.
Fred Rodgers, who is operating
mines in Nevada for an eastern syn
dicate, arrived the first of the week
to visit his wife and her mother, Mrs
Fred Kruse.
DR.. Froid, the dispenser to human
ills, has hied himself away to the
berry fields on the banks Of the
south Boulder. He took with him a
platform spring wagon to bring in hi
catch.
The Sunday school will meet next
Sunday at 10 a. m. Preaching by the
pastor at IL a. m. All are invited.
The Ladies' Aid society of the NJ.
T. church will give an entertainment,
consisting Of music and tableaux, at
Redmen's hall, Black Hawk, on next
Friday evening. Admission 10 and 3
cents; ice cream and cake 10 cents.
Everybody come.