Gunnison news-champion., 1917-06-22


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LATE NEWS FROM THE
GUNNISON SOLDIER BOYS
Frank Crary writes that about 1000
recruits come into his station every
day.
Orion French writes that he used
his savings of fifty dollars to buy a
Liberty Bond Loan and that all the
boys at the station responded loyalty
to this call.
Edwin Foster Hart, who has been
junior second lieutenant in Battery
b., "Denver's Own" artillery, has been
promoted to the place of senior first
lieutenant, and expects to be
called to France any day. Mrs. Hart,
(nee Miss. Mamie Shackleford) is with
him in Denver at this time.
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Mrs. Clara Herrick gives US an in
teresting item concerning her soldier
boys. Both leave for France in Sept
ember, Myron probably for three
years and Bryan for two. She tells
us that Myron is to be married in
August, shortly before the time set
for sailing, to Miss Edith Walton of
Denver, and after the wedding they
will both go the training station.
Mrs. Herrick expects to attend the
wedding. In giving us the item, she
commented on the fact that both boys
seemed to have special cleaning"
toward those of the Quaker faith as
both Mrs. Melvin Herrick and Miss
Walton are of that religion. Bryan
is at present on sentinel watch, guard
ing the Armory Building at Boulder.
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NEWS OF AUTOS AND
aw THE AUTOlSTS
Stull and Lindsey have received
their long delayed vulcanizing out
fit and are setting it up in the rear
rooms of the Rainbow Route garage
this week.
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The baseball boys say that they
passed thirty-two cars on the Rain
bow Route Saturday between the Half
Way House and Cerro Summit on
their way to Montrose. Out of the
thirty-two, fifteen were Dodge make,
six were Fords, and the rest were
Overlands. They started back at 7:20
Sunday evening and met twenty-five
cars between Montrose and Cerro
Summit, arriving in Gunnison at 12:40
that night.
On their way to attend druggists
convention at Manitou, party of fif-
teen people in three cars stopped over
in Gunnison Saturday uight. The
members of the party were Mr. and
Mrs. H. Rodney Anderson of Mon
trose, C. d. Smith and family and
neice Of Grand Junction, Miss Ruth
Hunt, and j. E. Stauffer and family of
Rife. A number of years ago Mr..
Stauffer lived in Gunnison, employed
in the Canaday Drug Store, and Md.
Smith used to be Gunnison resident.
Miss Hunt, also, was formerly Nor
nal student here and we understand
has just been elected to a position in
the Aspen schools. They report the
Rainbow Route as being in splendid
shape and vastly improved over year
age.
Mf. and Mrs. William B.
Moore came in from their son, S. B.
Moore's ranch, near Vulcan where
they had visited for short time. He
said during his visit to this office that
work on the property Of the Sawtooth
Mining and Milling Company was to
open very soon, and the arrival Of
G. w. johnson and other mining men
of Pueblo on the morning train We'd
nesdAE hears out his statement. Ae-
tivities on the property will begin i'm
medisteiy.
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MUNClE HARD COAL DEPOSITS
NOW ATTRACTING CAPITAL
The Marble Booster:
E. w. Center, the coal operator,
who has been over in the Muncie
basin for ten days examining the am
thracite deposits there with view
of opening them up, accompanied by
Bill Mason. Louie Idzenton and N. w.
Ward came back over the range Mon
day and stopped here only long
enough to send of some kilograms
then he took the train for Denver tr
set about the work Of opening this
immense deposit. Mr.. Center sale
the deposit was all, and more, thar
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