Gunnison news-champion., 1921-02-18
TWENTY YEARS AGO
A Chapter ef Events ef the
Lsag Ago
Cunnison. February rs. 1so

Gunnison. February Is, 1901.
Dear Mary
Have been down town this afternoon
and stopped at the past Office to zee
! IL there was . letter from you. Our
new postmaster, G. w. Summers, d
now on the job and has for his clerk
Aiss Eva Cuenin. Seems strange 70
see new faces behind the window. n.
C. Deering, who resigned, and his
daughter Laura have been in tie
postofice % long, ore almos expected
to see them there alwayI
l have bsea having . good time all
week. ettending parties and eluhs.
MIS- p. L. Snodgrass had Q lovely val
entine party this week. and Mrs. Mel
Deering also entertained. Guess Il
will be my turn next, as ! owe every
lady in town Q party.
II would be nice to entertain some
day in the spring, only have NO tables
or dishes. Hate 30 to borrow. ! have
been thinking would 60 down to see
what S. J. Miller has n the way Of
fanitnre hafgoinaI Yoa know he is
the one who Bought out Adam Miller.
S. J. will also have charge Of the
undertaking establishment, 20 Il will
still be UndertslLef Miller.
Ny 10y WAS tslling me today about
the eagle killed in the Hartman field
the other day. This seems to be an
unlueky season for eagles, this being
the second one this week, unless the
boys who shot Il, killed one Of the
Hartman turkeys instead. That would
Be . good joke ON the boys. They
were Moore Blackstock. Roy Mason
and Chauncey Summers.
Jack just came home from town.
He was down to get some coal, and
says the Alpine Pass tunnel has closed
down for good, and in so doing, the
Union coal mine at Baldwin, was COM
PEELED to shut down. That's too bad.
Henry Purrier and J. L. Morton con-
troll this mine and they were doing .
big business. Jack says he heard the
D. 4 r. G. was talking of trying TO
handle the transfer business formerly
conducted over the South Park. The
railroad will run trains as far as Pit
kin. however. ] was reading in the
'.twenty-years-ago" column of our
local paper where the South Park rail-
road had put on teams of its own to
haul freight from the end Of the line
into Gunnison. Seems funny it is to
be discontinued. 1t takes so darned
long to go to Denver via the Denver
& Rio Grandc, and always dread that
steep trip up the pass.
Our short-order restaurant closed
down this week, and the proprietor, H.
L. Kelley, moved to Baldwin.
Say, Mary, since your birthday falls
on the 22nd, you ought to coax your
better half to buy you something extra
nice for being born on Washington's
Birthday. Tell him there is dandy
new jewelry store opened up in Gunni-
SON. A. r. Goucher is the new man
and he has his store next to Gottlieb
Klebsattel's tailor shop.
Better come down and celebrate the
day with me. The schools are going to
have big program in honor of both
Lincoln and Washington. There will
be music, debates, etc. Chas. jenkins
will give a biography of Washington,
and Karl Zugelder will deliver one on
Lincoln. There is to be debate be-
tween Fred Rogers, Misses Min
ME Thomas Clara Surles, and Clyde
Martin. An interesting paper will be
read by Matt Schmitz, Dosia Estes,
Alice Balm and Harry Coombs. Hazel
Hartman will sing solo, Myrtle
Myers will give recitation and Nina
Hagen and Nellie Began will each
read selection. Try and come down.
/ have been invited to call on Mrs.
Lura Darlin, who is here from Toron-
to, Canada, visiting at the home Of
Mrs. Chas. Wilson.
Just heard that Mrs. Ora Jones and
little son, who have been guests at
the s. J. Miller and C. E. Adams
homes, are leaving this evening for
their home in Kansas. want to say
good bye TO them, 80 will close for
this time. More news next week.
Hastily,