Gunnison news-champion., 1921-10-28
Twenty Years Ago
Cunnison, October %, is

Cunnison, October %, 1901.
Dear Mary
Jack and I have been away most
Of the week and got home today.
found \ nice bunch Of letters at the
postonice, including yours, so while
am resting up. vii answer yours first.
We drove down to Vulcan the early
part Of the week. Ny first trip there.
We went down in some Of the mines.
Also met several old friends. Jack
Jennings is night foreman at the
Good Hope mine. Johnny Hogan is
also working in the same mine.
Mike Kelleher and his partner, Mr..
Dempsey, were hauling the cabin of
Carl BerRs to the Golden Age proper
ty, and expect TO strike il rich soon.
Thursday we went up to Parlin and
had visit with former friends. Mrs.
James Burns was getting her daught-
er, Miss Cassie ready to send to st.
Gertrude Academy at Boulder.
Mrs. NJ. S. Rogers daughter, Miss
Alberta, was also expecting to leave
for Boulder to enter school. Her
chum, Miss Nellie Mcconnell of Doyle
vile, was also going somewhere for
the winter. The girls We're given a
farewell party at the Mcconnell home
the evening of the 25th. and right in
the midst of the games. u wedding
party marched into the room. The
couple were Mr.. Albert II. Mcconnell
and Marie Bracewell.
When we were driving down Main
street on the way home, we noticed
crowd going toward the depot. II
looked at first as il half the town was
L,,s -, ha
train to see guests off.
George Hetherington's mother. Mrs.
II. j. Hetherington, was leaving for
her home in Westfield, Indiana. S. j..
Miller's niece, Miss May Tuneson of
Beloit, Kansas. was leaving for her
home. after spending the summer here.
T. c. Browns cousin, Frank Carter, an
attorney of ST. Louis was leaving that
evening after n days visit here.
Wish ! could go some place for a
while. Mrs. Jim Williams asked me
to visit her when they are settled in
Como. They moved this week.
Speaking of moving, the Judd Riley
family is moving into the VIM. MUIR
ray home on Wisconsin street.
Walker Burnett was telling Jack
that all bets are Oft on his Thanks
giving turkey, rs some thief got in
to his chicken house the other night
and swiped the turkey as well as q
couple of chickens. And the next :
night someone entered the La Veta
hotel kitchen and mussed up things
Maybe it was the fel-
low who took the turkey looking for
a big pan to roast the critter in. ~
They say Charley Adams is home
again. hope he left his rheumatism
ink at Hot Springs, Arkansas, where
he has bean staying.
Charlie Biebel, who sets type for
the News office, is back from his
Utah trip. He didn't join the Nor
mons after all.
When l went down to the Rio
Grande depot the other day, thot the
railroad company had decided
Grande railroad company had decided
10 answer the petition for a broad
gauge thru here by the way the road
around there looked, but it turned out
TO be only a new platform in front
Of the depot they were putting in.
The lady next door was over a while
ago and was telling me that Mrs. c.
W. Winslow Of Pitlin was called to
Salida this week on account Of the
serious illness Of her husband, who is
in the hospital there.
She was also telling me the laugh !,
her husband had at her expense. She
was telling her little girl the reason
a bride wears white at her wedding =
because it represents a time Of joy
and rejoicing-and her little boy in
terrupted her to ask Mamma, why
does the men always wear black?"
Helen just came home from school.
She says Nora Arch has gone to Delta
and will attend the grammar school
there.
Jack was saying something about
q ranch deal near here. but didn't
understand all he said. w. H. Wilt
sold his seventy-acre ranch to B. F.
Melton for $1,000 and will move to
Utah. Jack was in q hurry to go
down town and see VIM. Grafflin who
has been In New York in the interest
Of the Iron Cap mine.
Well dear girl, have about forty
things to do, 50 will close for this
time. Write when you can.
As ever, AGNES.