Gunnison news-champion., 1917-10-19

Edgar Wilson was down from
Crested Butte last week visiting
friends in our city.
Mrs. A. C. Clark went Sunday to
Omaha, Neb., where she is q delegate
to the P. Z. o. lodge.
]. Quintana and Mervin Ivy motor
ed down from Pitkin Saturday even
ing to take in the show.
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Ex-senator Geo. Stephen. of Delta,
was q passenger on 316 Saturday on
his way home from Denver.
NJ. J. Slate, father and mother mo-
tored down from Doyleville Monday.
They returned the same day.
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Miss Mary Hughes left Wednesday
for Alamosa. She will lecture there
this week on Rural Community work.
Geo. w. Goodell, national bank ex-
aminer, and wife of Denver, have been
at the Grand hotel the past few days.
Steve Day left for Thistle, Utah,
Tuesday evening. He has accepted
a position in the D. & r. G. railroad
offices there.
The Bon Ton football team has been
organized again and will play their
first game Friday afternoon with the
High School team.
Mrs. E. G. Gladstone, of Crested
Butte, left Tuesday for Albany, N.
Y. She expects to visit her son there
for several weeks.
Mrs. S. p. Spencer returned Friday
last from Canon City, where she re-
manned three weeks with her daughter,
Mrs. A. r. Novels.
After q months terrible suffering
with his back, Walt Barker is again
able to get around the streets q little,
He looks pretty peaked.
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Miss Helen Gray departed Sunday
evening for st. Luke's hospital, inDen-
yer, where she will pursue her studies
as trained nurse.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Snyder paid q
visit to Gunnison friends the latter
part Of last week, but departed Sum
day for their home in LosAngeles, Cal.
Walter Hoel, who left Grand juno
tion in charge of 81 recruits has been
turned down at Camp Funston it is
presumed on account of physical dis
ability.
Word received yesterday from Err
nest Arterburn, tells us that he has
passed the examination at Denver,
and is on his way to the navy yards at
San Francisco. N 4ss.f4
4 Dr.N. J..Hyatt left Sunday evening
for Pueblo as delegate for the Odd
Fellows Lodge of Gunnison to the En-
.campment and the state grand lodge
meeting held there this week
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Mrs. John French left Sunday for
Pueblo where she is to represent the
Rebecca Lodge Of Gunnison during the
convention there this week. From
there she will go to Denver and Little
ton to visit for q month with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. p. Nelson and
daughter, Pauline, were in town from
Pitkin Saturday. Miss Pauline tells
US she is expecting to leave before
very long to spend the winter in Kan
sas City.
After spending the required seven
months on their homestead west of
town, Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. Hyland moved
Saturday to Baldwin, where Joe will
run the engine again for some winter
months.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Large and fam
lily left the first of the week for Pueb-
10. Mr.. Large will attend the Odd
Fellows Lodge in their convention
there this week. They will spend q
few days in Denver before return
ing.
Twelve cents a quart for milk, or
eight quarts for dollar, seems to be
the prevailing price most everywhere
in Colorado. Gunnison dairymen have
gradually come up to this figure, al
leging the high cost Of feed, labor and
Of dairy stock.
Clark, johnson and Switzerland
from st. Elmo have leased the Climax
mine on Cement creek and are building
about six miles Of new road over which
to haul their silver and lead ore. Mr..
johnson has moved his family from
st. Elmo to Gunnison.
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