Gunnison news-champion., 1920-04-30
Twenty Years Ago
Gunnison. April 80, 1900.

Dear Mary
How | wish you were going with
me tonight. am invited to the
luncheon given by Mrs. +. B. Pitney
in honor of her friend from Kentucky,
Mrs. L. G. Armendt. Mrs. Pitney has
a beautiful new gown for the occasion;
pink satin and black lace.
The editor of the Tribune, Charley
Adams, received word this week that
his mother is very i'll in Kansas. He
expects to go soon, but his brother,
Clarence. left last night. He secured
10 days lay-of from his duties on
the Colorado Southern. You know he
is engineer on that branch.
saw Harry Faulkner yesterday.
He was saying he is working out OF
Gunnison now, having snapped places
on the freight run to Grand Junction
with o. p. Cady.
The swapping game seems to be
catching, as VIM. Madden and Joe Ri
ley exchanged places also, the latter
is now working in Grand Junction and
Mr.. Madden is in the yards here.
Say! What do you think? Frank
Duncan has been elected member Of
the board of alderman at that new
town called Cameron. Mrs. Duncan
and the children went over this week
l was down town yesterday and saw
Judge McDougal looking as il he was
going to begin house cleaning. Guess
his wife and baby are due home this
week from Kentucky. He is expect
ing them
Wonder If G. A. Dewey Of Pitkin
cleaned house too. His wife came
home yesterday from Leavenworth
Kansas, where she has been spending
the winter.
My boy is all worked up over the
base ball game his team lost Friday
afternoon. The high school boys and
grammar school boys played a game
the latter losing. Clyde Martin was
captain of the Grammar school team
and Jesse Crooks captain of the other
Clarence Webster was referee Of the
game.
Speaking of schools, reminds me
of the spelling bee at the Easterly
is teacher there. Mrs. A. c. Green
spelled them all down.
Miss Emerson's school will be out
soon and she has been appointed one
OF the census enumerators for Gunni-
son county. The other census takers
are w. S. Rainbow, j. I. Parlin, j. NJ
Flick and 7. I. Highly.
Miss Angie Rowe had quite sur
prise one day recently when an old
school friend, Miss Carrington. OF
Kansas City, who is travelling for her
health, stopped off in Gunnison to visit
for few days.
DR.. Sanford had TO take Shorty
Bashaw to the Rio Grande hospital in
Salida ] don't believe he will live
long. Mr.. Bashaw got there just in
time to take the place of Chas. La
Tourette, who has been having his
broken arm treated. 1t is as good as
new now.
would have liked to have seen Mrs
Mack Davis when that bunch of girls
walked in on her the other night. The
girls who took part in the Demorest
contest gave her surprise panty and
presented her with a rocking chair
I guess the girls realized what job
Mrs. Davis had drilling them, and de-
cided she needed a rest and something
to rest in.
Jack was talking to Tom Stanley,
who'was in from Ohio City this week.
MIR. Stanley says the town there is on
the boom. He said that Ambrose
Caufman is building a three story
east wing onto the C. s. Henderson
house, also that Mrs. /. M. Gardiner is
back from her trip to Lynnville, Iowa.
Our new lawyer, George Hethering-
ton, tried his first case this week. It
was divorce case and George won.
l hear that Chas. Haney has gone
up to the Biebel ranch to put up hay
this summer.
Did l tell you that John Clifford is
now roadmaster on this division of
the Rio Grande?
Jack heard that his old friend Steve
Day, who is on the way from Lake
Shore, Utah, where he spent the win
ter, is now at the Ajax mine in Galena
Park. Jack is SO crazy about mining
you know.
The surveyor, J. A. Dofflemeyer,
went up to Midway this week to sur
vey ground for the excavation for
the new stamp mill on the Dale pro-
peity there.
Robert Hamlin, manager of the
Lucky Strike mine, has gone to New
York on business connected with that
property.
Well, it's nearly time to start for
the party, SO will close. Guess I've
told you all the news-Oh, forgot.
Adam Miller, our undertaken, has a
new assistant, nephew, John Schmidt
of Baltic, Ohio, who is graduate Of
the School for Embalmers. He ex-
poets to locate here.
This is all for this time. As ever,
AGNES.