Gunnison news-champion., 1917-09-28
WHAT THE POsTMAN BROUGHT
(Tweaty Years Ags)
Gunnison. September 20, 1897.

Gunnison, September 20, 1897.
Dear Nary
Your welcome letter came thismorn-
ing, and rs have to figure on the
household bills today. l will answer
your letter ut the same time, rs il will
save getting pen and ink out again. l
will be pretty busy the rest Of the
week getting ready for our trip to
Denver. We will leave here on the C.
& S. special at six in the morning and
am just scared to death for fear !
will oversleep that morning.
No, / havn't been to any more So
cial affairs since the Rebekah dance
Friday night. It was q fine affair
and they cleared $1,000. No one
has much time for society just now.
Mrs. Henry F. Lake gave q lovely
party last week for her neice, Miss
lngersoll.
That's all ! know of the social do
ings, but such large number of fu-
nerals this week. That young man
that told you about last week, AL
bert Noel, died Saturday after being
sick two years of Bright's disease.
He was only-aineteen years old. Mrs.
Robert Imobersteg died Thursday
morning at their ranch. Just think,
she leaves ten children to mourn. An
old soldier died at the hospital here
Sunday. His name was Lyman Cole
and the poor old fellow had been try
ing for the past twenty years to get
pension, and had finally succeeded
just as he was about to die. He
had never drawn a cent.
Well, Mary, am afraid this will
not be very newsy letter this time.
1t is SO much easier to talk than to
write. How do wish you folks were
back here again. Have you ever thot
of returning! Jack says he bets you
will. Any way II looks ~ II every
one who moves away, comes back
sooner or later. Remember the Ed.
Duncan family? Well, they have
moved back from Minnesota, and F.
A. Sellinger and family, who went
away two years ago. have also re-
turned to stay, and he is now en-
gineer on the Rio Grande railroad.
You had better pack up and come back
too.
must tell you folks the joke on
several of the folks here Last
Sunday morning, VIM. McGinnis and
Il. p. Jones took a crowd Of young
folks up to Parlins, . station twelve
miles from here. They were going to
take part in a Sunday School affair
But the school directors, who have
been quarreling for the past ten years
over the location of the school house
had suddenly came to blows, and two
Of them, Fritz Borsum and Wilson
Moore, secured seven men and three
teams and hauled the school house
away on wheels. The other director
John Parlin, was so mad, he had
the others all arrested and up in court
But, when the Sunday school crowd
arrived at Parlins, they found moth
| ing but q hole in the ground where
the school house had stood. Mrs. M
s. Rogers, the depot agent, took pity
ON them and invited them into hel
house, and they had a pleasant visit
after all. Mrs. Rogers two children
Fred and Alberta helped to entertain
them. The section foreman, FREQ
Lantz treated them to dinner at tht
section house. They say they had {
| fire trip just the same.
The town looks kind of deserted thi,
week, SO many are away some place
ON q visit. Mrs. M. P. Getchell wen'
to Delta today to visit Mrs. J. P
Huntley. Alex Thomas decided HI
| preferred Montrose to Denver and ha'
gone down there to take in the biz
fair. Mrs. F. B. Pitney left for Den
yer last night, SO suppose will NEE
her there next week. Jack says h,
saw Lee Smith in town today. HI
came In from Ouray to visit his fam
| lily. Mike Quinn is in from Baldwin
this week. You know he is the mer
chant 1t that place.
/ saw Frank Dean on the stree