Gunnison news-champion., 1919-03-07
Twenty Years Ago
Gunnison, March Z, 1899

Since the snow OlOck8de mas Oeen
opened, can again hone for . letter
from you, but thought ! would write
anyway, or you will think ! have gone
to Denver like everybody else seems
to be doing.
When ! was down at the depot this
evening, there were several Of Gun
nison folks buying tickets for the
capital city. l noticed Mrs. John
Whipp, Mrs. C. A. Nelson, Mrs. N.
Fontaine,; and Mr.. and Mrs. T. J.
Kane. Jack says w. H. Endnen came
back from Denver this morning.
Frank Buster and ]. S. Olney were
down from the Buttes yesterday.
Mr.. Olney was telling Jack that the
pay roll of the c. F. & l. the past
winter months has been from $4,000
to $4,000 monthly. Wish had a job
up there. Mr.. Olney is the manager.
c. r. Bourdette and his daughter,
Mrs Geo. Summers, returned from
Salida where they went to see Willis
Bourdette who had his head so badly
hurt in the round house there. The
doctors had to take 100 stitches in the
gashes. Jack says Willis will be on
deck twenty years from now just as
good rs ever.
When you come down to see me, If
you bring a trunk and some fellow
offers to bring it up to my house. don't
get scared and think he is flirting. II
will be C. W. Chinery He bought
out our local baggage man, NJ. NJ.
Rose this week.
No, Jack wasn't at Vulcan, during
that awful row last week. II all
happened over some union miners get
ting laid off. We didn't have to call
out the militia however, as our sheriff,
Elmer Wiley. is as good as whole
regiment when he gets good and mad.
Jacks love for mining hasn't been
quite SO strong since that snow-slide
above Tin Cup last week. One of the
men buried in it, Mike Smith, and the
eight year-old son of the other man,
were rescued alive, but all the others
were killed. There was slide at
Hancock, near here, this week. No
one lives there, however, but all the
South Park coal cars on the tracks
were swept of and buried.
Had a wedding since ! last wrote.
Miss Annie Marshall and F. w. Beu-
ton, both of Vulcan, were married by
Justice Rainbow.
Mrs. Strouse and daughters came in
from Grand Junction the other day.
They have leased the Palisades hotel
and will run it. We will 90 down and
eat when you come down.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Carpenter have
decided to live in Gunnison and came
back from Denver today. Mrs. Car
penter was Miss Ursula Peck.
VIM. McGinnis and family eft for
yesterday. The Vashti Rebekahs ten
dered them farewell party before
they left.
You remember I told you that S.
Shackleford won the guessing con-
test at Mr.. and Mrs. s. ID. Crump's
party. Well, guess that Mr.. Shack
leford thought the prize wasn't near
enough, so he went and made himself
a present of a new Smith Premier
typewriter.
Oh, yes, the Shackleford's Southern
girl, Eliza White, returned last
week from Kentucky and will make
her home here with them.
I The owners Of the Iron Cap mine at
/, Spencer. d. Miller, John Latimer,
and d. X. Peck-have given an option
on their property for sixty days to
Samuel Edwards. The price Of the
mine is $4,000.
Next time our water pipes freeze,
we may be able to have them thawed
out by electricity. Any way Prof. r.
w. Wood of the Wisconsin university,
has discovered process and Rev. H.
F.. Parshall, who used TO live here,
tried it out, and wrote to Mr.. Nc
Came of the water works here and he
is going to see if he can put it into
use here. He and Electrician Chas.
Meyer, are now arranging things SO
to give it try-out.
Jack says that Metroz & Downey
have dissolved partnership in their
saloon, and Mr.. Metroz is now sole
owner of the business on Main street.
The Town Board met this week,
with Mayor I. j. Thompson in the
chair. They appointed the following
judges for the coming town election:
Precinct No. Frances N. Lake, ].
w. Rogers and w. A. Clark. In
Precinct No. 2-W. L. Richardson, j.
X. Millspaugh and J. d. Parsons.
Must close now, am going to call
on Mrs. Jos. Mckee. She is enter
tanning her sister, Mrs. Maggie Greg
ory, from Idaho.
Write soon, AGNES.
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