Gunnison news-champion., 1920-08-27
Twenty Years Ago
Gunnison, August %. 1:

Gunnison, August "a, 1900.
Dear Friend, Mary
Just received your letter and I
think It was real mean of you to make
fun Of me because couldn't get any
sugar for canning. last week I can
see myself paying $500 per 100 lbs
for sugar. Oh well, maybe they will
be giving sugar away free twenty
years from now.
And you also poked fun at what I
said about poor Mr.. Adams having
rheumatism on his mind. l didn't
mean that he had rheumatism of the
brain. l think you're real mean.
Mr.. Adams really is very sick and
they sent for his brother-in-law, S. j.
Miller this week TO come down to
Cebolla where Mr.. Adams is. He
won't live thru the week.
It's a good thing that the women
are taking hand in the newspaper
game. The editors seem to be want
ing to die-or as Jack says: "kick the
paste pot +. II. Lore, editor of
the News is very low with appended
tbs and was taken to the hospital.
wish you could have been with me
reception given by Mrs. S. p. Spencer
in honor of her sister, Mrs. Mary
Lawrence and Mrs. Metzler and her
daughter, Miss Daisy. The ladies
are from Crested Butte, coming down
with Mrs. Spencer, who has been visit
ing up there all week. Misses Ada
Caldwell and Kate Murray assisted
Mrs. Spencer in serving a dainty
luncheon.
Helen has gone to party this after
noon given by little Fannie Winters.
Jack had the pleasure of meeting
an old-timer of Gunnison today-one
whose conscience hurt him for leaving
such a good town as Gunnison and SO
came back. He is Louis Sauer and
a fine barber. l hear that he may
be connected with the new barber shop
which Bot Hards is planning on open
ing soon. Mr.. Hards is in Denver
getting a complete barber shop out
fit. Now Jack will be down there all
the time.
Another old-timer who has been
in Gunnison this week was Ralph ID.
Mattison of Chicago. He lived here
as little boy in the early eighties,
and his father was the man who put
up the three-story brick building
where II. NJ. Webster lives.
Jack and ] spent Sunday at Wauni-
Ia Hot Springs. DIR. Davis very eff
cient head nurse, Miss Emma Patter-
son left today for Michigan City, In
diana. She will be greatly missed.
Charlie Miller had his collar bone
broken the other day while he was
horseback riding with Bruce Hartman.
Charles horse stepped into a prairie
dog hole without notifying him,
and now Charlie won't worry about
starched collars for awhile. Prairie
dogs are such a nuisance. Every lit
ways one comes across place where
purp has been excavating.
We had two. weddings last week.
Miss Cora Smith and Ralph Mcdonald
and Miss Jessie Kearney were the
other two who said: II will. They
are going to live at Chance, while
the McDonalds will make their home
at Lewiston, Idaho.
Oh, say Mary, the Stork left baby
boy at the home of Pete Ready this
week.
Did you hear about the big fire at
Irwin last week? That Myers resi-
dence that was burned belonged to
Mrs Alex. Myers of Gunnison.
When the years roll by and you are
grown up, don't it seem nice to again
meet an old school mate and talk
over old times? Mrs. J. M. Allen and
Mrs. H. NJ. Webster had that pleasure
this week when DIR. Geo. McGinnis of
Aurora, Illinois, paid Gunnisonr a
visit. The ladies and DIR. McGinnis
attended the university in Mendoza,
Illinois, years ago. .
] heard today that Mrs. Lizzie
Myers and daughter, Miss Zita, are
moving to Denver to live.
The VIM. Hogan family are moving
today, into their brick residence on
Main street.
Mrs. o. NJ. Potter is enjoying a
visit from her sister, Miss Elsie
Small, who arrived from the East this
week. Their brother, Warren Small,
came down from Crested Butte this
week to visit them.
Guess l will have to close now, as
my boy is going to the surprise party
on Alan Clark tonight and / have to
sew on some buttons on his clothes.
Hope you don't make fun of me
next time you write or l won't write
to you again. So there!
As ever. AGNES.