Gunnison news-champion., 1919-07-11
Twenty Years Ago
Gunnison. July IL, 1899.

So you want to know about our big
time the Fourth? Well, we did have
o grand celebration. There must have
day.
This week, Chas. La Tourette sold
his Turf Exchange saloon here to NJ.
Quinn and his ,brother-in-law, VIM.
Hogan, who are from Baldwin. OF
course. Jack tried to show the rev.
comers what generous citizen he is.
Wish you could have seen some of
the doings. enjoyed the bicycle race
prize in the ladies bicycle race, and in
the mems race, Ed. Peck took LIST prize
and Chas. Peck, End. There was a
wheelbarrow race next, and those who
won were Arthur Pearson. Of Pitkin,
and Howard Endner of Gunnison.
Another race was between several lit-
tie. boys on donkeys. The winners
were, Earl Mullin and Paul Nordstron,
In the 3-legged race, Frank Peck,
Johnny Hogan, Bruce Hartman and
Willie Latimer were the lucky ones.
Jack was to have taken part in the
clay pigeon shoot but by the time that
was pulled off, Jack couldn't tell a
pigeon from a barn door. and did not
want to have to send lot of flowers
to widows in town, SO ! wouldn't let
him shoot. Frank Harper and Lee
Clay won the prizes.
The best of the features was the
race between the Juvenile hook and
ladder companies. East and West
town were each represented by six
little boys with their firemen's appra-
tus decorated in the stars and stripes.
c. T. Sills and John Gordon gave the
winners a purse of $500.
Had a grand ball at the La Veta in
the evening, but / did not go.
There were lots Of out-of-town peo-
pie here last week. Saw C. w. Wins
low, the cashier in the bank at Pitkin.
Also Mrs. VIM. Friend and her son,
Harry stopped in town short time,
while on their way from Pitkin to Del
to to visit Mr.. Friend.
Jerry Olney and family are down
from the Buttes today.
Mrs. Sprigg Shackleford is enter
tanning A. NJ. Stevenson's sister, Miss
Hattie Stevenson, from Denver.
Met the newlyweds today-Mr. and
Mrs. Pete Miller, who arrived from
Hamilton, Ohio this week.
w. H. Endner has secured the con-
tract for the new Getz & Western
Slope bank building to be erected in
Montrose. The cost will be $4,000.
What on earth does your hubby in
tend to go to Utah for? Wayne Scott
and Jos. Kienbush came back from a
prospecting trip there this week, and
say that Gunnison county has every
other mining region beat hundred
times when it comes to likely pros
pecting opportunities. These two
men are the ones who located that
mine in the Gold Brick district called
the Chloride mine.
/ hear that Steve Day has finished
his work on that road between Elko
and Gothic and is going to spend the
remainder of the season working his
mining property known as the Ajax
and Hercules claims, which were re-
Gently incorporated under the name Of
the East Rock Creek company, with
capital stock of $4,000.
Willis Mclaughlin came back from
the Muddy district with 100 burros
which he intends to use as pack train
during the summer around Gothic.
wish my kids would come home.
am afraid they have gone over to the
News Democrat building on Virginia
Ave-, which the Masons are fixing up
for lodge building. Something is
liable to drop on my children's heads.
! T. w. Gray thinks the Fourth was a
big event in his household, as Wednes-
day brought big baby boy to them.
The little Gray girls are SO proud of
their baby brother.
Went down to see Miss Edith Small
yesterday, but she was not home. She
and Bessie Estes went to Vulcan to
spend the Fourth with Miss Mamie
Tapscott.
We are going to have the Campbell
Bros's. circus here on the 18th. You
had better come down and 90 with me.
/ hear that negotiations are on be-
tween some Of our citizens to have a
five-cornered race next week. / don't
know whether it is to be a side show
Of the circus or not. The contestants
are N. Schmitz, John Gordon, H. r.
Lake, B. w. Lewis and Alex. Gullett.
The distance is to be one block and
the winner gets $25, each of the five
paying $500 and the winner treating
all the rest to supper.
Jack says he is going down to Lake
City with H. s. Crooks, of the fish
hatchery here. to help him put 25, 900
baby trout in Lake San Christoval.
Must close now and get supper. I'll
write again next week. As ever.
AGNES.