Gunnison news-champion., 1919-08-29
Twenty Years Ago
Gunnison, August %, !

Gunnison, august ~, 1879.
Dear Nary
l just came home from a trip. down
town. Had nice talk with Miss
Rcva Sapp who is visiting her father.
d. 7. Sapp. She is connected with the
Denver Post.
l noticed Miss Hattie Peck at a dis
tance on the street. She has been
visiting Miss Maud Farley at Pitkin.
Quite few of the young ladies are
entertaining guests from out-of-town.
Miss Edna Parlin Of Parlin. is visiting
Miss Fay Fulton. and Mrs. Mamie
Reppy and little daughter. of Lake
City are visiting her sister. Mrs. VIM.
knode.
Doesn't it make you feel rather put
out to try to surprise someone and get
surprised instead! Well, Chas. w.
Haney decided to surprise his eastern
relatives by getting married. His
bride is that sister Of Mrs A. H.
Judy, Miss Susan Nelson. The day
of his wedding he received n letter
from his sister in Buchanan, Virginia
telling him of her intended wedding,
and do you know, it was set for the ex-
act hour and day as his.
Had quite a distinguished crowd at
the La Veta hotel this week. On Fri
day the Household Enquirer Club a
bunch of correspondents for that paper
from Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky,
went thru Gunnison on the evening
train and had supper here. They were
q jolly bunch, but their trip was sad
dened by the death Of one of their
members-John Kortz-who dropped
dead the next day on the street at
Leadville. Altitude was too much for
his heart.
The next day the railroad commits
sioners and their wives were in town
and were entertained in such delight
full manner at the hotel, that Presi-
dent Jeffray Of the Rio Grande, sent
Manager G. w. Summers Of the hotel
q personal letter Of thanks.
Say, Mary. Gunnison is to have an
honest-to-goodnes band, and it is to
be called the Woodmen Band. There
will be twelve members in it, and al
ready ten have been chosen. They
are: VIM. Coombs, leader; Paul Boyles,
J. J. and Fred Williams, Leon Gavette,
VIM. Grafflin, Chas. Meyer, A. d.
Smith, c. f. Adams, (imagine an edit
or blowing his horny and Bob Potter.
And that reminds me that Bob is
going to Grand Junction this week to
be married to Miss Effie Jackman.
Jack is away this week. Went of
to Pitkin with A. H. Conroy, who was
down this afternoon. Mr.. Conroy ia
doing some big work on Drummond
group in Kimmel gulch--5 claims on
so acres of ground up Quartz creek
mining district. Another mine in
the Pitkin district is the Maid of
Athens, which shipped out twelve
cars of ore this week. (No, indeed,
Jack didn't help load 'em.) The own
ers Of this mine are: VIM. Friend, c.
f. Osgood, Thos. Huxtable and F. r.
| Wallace.
l don't think Jack will stay long as
he is crazy to get down to Vulcan ever
since the Good Hope mine started to
ship ore taken from the third level
1t runs from 500 to $l60. The shaft
is now down $40 feet.
| What kind Of an animal is q deputy
collector of internal revenue? Well,
any way, q Mr.. Harris who holds that
kind Of job with the government,
has been at the court house the past
three days going over the affairs in
the Office of the county clerk, John E.
Brothers.
! Are you going to the San Juan
| pioneers reunion at Telluride Sept IL :?
! would like to go as my folks were
pioneers of that section. Mother has
often told me how she travelled over
that section in a prairie schooner. 1t
is nice you and can go by train or
our defendants may put it all over US
by having one of those new tangled
things they call an automo-auto Il can
never remember the name)-oh, yes,
automObugy, nofI meant automobile.
Oh. rats! Maybe we will travel in fly
ing machines too, one Of these days.
wonder IL Jos. Blackstock's mail
orders for boots and shoes are getting
too numerous. He moved this week
to that building right next to the post
Office That will save him some time.
Speaking Of moving, w. E. Herrick
has moved his bakery into the build
ing next to Latimer, Allen & Miller.
He turns out such nice bread, too.
That reminds me that had bad luck
with the bread baked yesterday, and
Jack said that If l ever cast that
bread upon the waters it would OBJ
struct navigation. The brute.
We are going to have some improve
ments made on our house as soon as
we get carpenter. Just now they
are nearly all engaged at Waunita
building new cottages. Six new ones
were erected this week. The only car
pcnters left in town are engaged on
the Murray saloon. The Murray
brothers are having hot air furnace
installed and an ice house built in. Al
SO they intend to have their own light
ing plant soon. l guess they had bet
ter save some of their money for a
rainy day, as there has been an anti
saloon league formed here. Rev. c..
w. Heisler of Salida was here Sunday
and gave a sermon at the Presbyterian
church on the anti-saloon movement.
There are fourteen charter members
Of the league here, and George Rhodes
is president; Mrs. B. F. Powelson, vice
inresident. Mrs NAV Forbes. SECRETARY.