Gunnison news-champion., 1918-12-13
Twenty Years Ago
Gunnison, December Is, Is

Gunnls0n, DECEMBER ID, 1oSo.
Dear Mary :,
While l am warming my feet. I will
answer your letter which ! received
today. Have been all over town this
forenoon hunting news items. You
know I am on the committee OF wom-
en- who are to edit the New Years
edition Of the Gunnison Tribune, and
! am to have the local page. It's .
darned hard job too. betcher life. I'll
never again kick when our paper has
not rs much news rs like to see. l
wonder how one poor lone editor ever
gets . paper out every week.
Maud Farley surely has \ lot Of
grit to tackle the Pitkin Miner. You
know she has taken over the paper
since the former editor, Ellis Lore, de-
cided to buy the News
l have had pretty good luck SO far;
have q deep suspicion that the citizens
are afraid Of my write-ups and de-
cided to move to escape me. Well, !
will get them anyway.
H. P. Ferguson has purchased that
two-story house on Tomichi and Wis
consin Streets, from Mrs. NJ. Pressler.
He paid 1925 for it. The house he
has just vacated is to be occupied by
C. A. Nelson and family, and C. A.
Kroll is moving into the Nelson house.
Had big wedding at Powderhorn
this week. You would never guess
who-E. A. McGregor and Miss Luena
Turner. They received such q lot of
beautiful wedding presents.
What do you expect to get for
Xmas? Our stores are lovely. The J.
d. Miller butcher shop is to give its
patrons a treat on Xmas day. I am
wondering what l will receive this
year. You can bet l am going down
to the store myself this time. Last
year Jack went and received q lovely
big roast of pork. Well, coming home
he stopped to talk to someone in the
grocery store and laid his package ON
the table and then, man-ike, picked
up the first one he came to and when
he got home the package had two
dozen pork sausages. Jack insists 1t
was the heat in the store that turned
the roast into sausages.
Two Of our citizens here have al
ready received their Xmas presents.
w. E. Ruck's family received . new
baby boy, and the family of Bob
Herds have . baby girl.
Did you read in the paper about the
wreck on the South Park, Just above
Pariin, last week? A hog became
tangled in = cattle guard and ditched
the freight, killing tho fireman, James
Matthew'S, ard breaking the leg VI
the engineer, Dave Mackey.
That reminds me that have . good
news item ON some Of the railroad
boys who have Just BEEN promoted.
Six of them have been promoted to
they are Chas. Kroll. Phil
Ready, G. L. Stewart, G. H. Veo, Benz
Nelson, and John Hill. Five others
have been promoted to firemen. They
are Henry Knoll, Fred Perkins, r. +.
Cove, Bert Potter and Frank Trevar.
than.
Do you know anything about that
Marble Commercial Club that has
been formed 1t Marble, Colo? They
say it Il for the purpose Of boosting
that district. The new railroad hasl
now reached . point twelve miles from
Marble called Redstone, and the town
Of Marble wants Il extended to that
place.
! The Gunnison hotel sold out tie
other day. George Jayne purchased
all the furniture foT his secondhand
store. 81 3 i.. ~. n's1i
Iihear that Mrs. I. J. Thompson ne
turned from her trip TO Missouri. and
brought her daughter, Essie home for
Xmas. / believe I will 10 and see
them, and maybe ! can get some more
news. VIII post this while I am In
town. Write soon. ,..4
AZ ever, AGNES.
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