Gunnison news-champion., 1922-04-07
Twenty Years Ago
Gunnison, April z. 1902

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Gunnison, April z. 1902.
Dear Nary
Well! Of all the darned luck! Last
Sunday was Easter Sunday and l
had lovely suit TO wear and had Miss
Bessie Estes make me . hat to match,
and then what happened? Nope. il
didn't storm. Instead half the business
part Of Main street burned down. 1t
was awful. When the FIRE bells began
ringing. l thought it must be the
Fourth Of July instead Of Easter SUM-
day, and believe me, no Fourth ever
saw such fireworks as We had for a
while.
Tom Cox discovered the blaze first
and half the town turned out when
the alarm sounded. Those who lost
their places Of business were, both
the J. d. Miller and N. C. Walker meat
markets, Latimer 4 Allen, s. b.
Clark, Rob't. Hards, L. Weinberger,
Collins & Mccormick. Frank Ander-
son, and those who had rooms over the
stores. Mrs. Clara Hcrrick lost lot
Of her dressmaking establishment and
J. NJ. McDougal lost some Of his Of
fee fixtures. NJ. Schmitz lost his tail
or shop, and says he will build the next
one Of brick.
And, say Mary, lots Of funny things
happened when everybody got excited.
NJ. c. Walker and wife lived over their
meat store and when the fire got be-
yond control, Mr.. Walker rushed up
stairs and threw the dresser, and sew
eral chairs out the window and then
grabbed a feather bed and several sofa
pillows and carefully carried them
down stairs. Somebody threw a small
show case full of mems cuff buttons
and shirt studs out on the street from
Latimer & Aliens, and scattered them
all over. A crowd Of small boys pick
cd them up and during the week every
kid In town blossomed out in studs and
cuff buttons galore. Somebody stole
an enormous lot Of wienies from J.
ID. Miller's and hid them in what was
supposed to be a safe place, well not
long afterwards, several dogs got to
shifting around and found the cache
and proceeded to enjoy themselves.
OF course they started to fight and all
Of sudden string Of dogs came
tearing down the street tangled up in
the weinies.
J. d. Miller got hit in the eye with
a stream of water from hose and
nearly lost one eye.
Well, guess I've said enough on
the subject of fire. Spose there1l be
lot of fire sales soon. Don't suppose
there will be any bargains in wienies.
Tuesday was town election day, but
didn't go down to vote. DR.. Sanford
was elected mayor and the board Of
trustees consists of J. NJ. Allen, j. w.
England and George Holmes.
There was another kind Of election
this week, too. The Telephone Ex-
change held their annual election Of
officers the other night. G. I. MUIR
ray was elected president; Louis Mil
Ter, vice-president; X. E. Mueller, Sec
retary. Nellie Flavin was appointed
manager of the local office.
Have you heard about the ranch
deals around here? C. A. Green sold
his place on Ohio Creek to Geo. Light
ley and the cattle to Frank Lightley,
then he turned around and bought the
lola ranch Of Anthony Pomel. Mr..
Pomel is moving to Denver and will 70
on q visit to his old home in France.
Clyde Welch Of the Cochetopa pur-
chased the old Jennings ranch on the
Tomichi and Is going TO live there.
Wish you could see the swell new
two-seated surrey 7. w. Gray bought |
the other day. would ike to have .
chance to drive horse and buggy.
Jack says ! would get dose Of what
John Eastman got the other day while |
he was working around the horses in |
the livery stable, one Of them got |
playful and laid his front legs on Mr..
Eastman's bosom and nearly caved IL
in.
l am certainly glad Lent is over, a.
I want to take dancing lessons from
Mrs. George Stovall. She and her
husband have opened dancing school
here and also gives music lessons.
And, too, am going to have my
F0ntaine returned from Denver yes
and h.ir Tnd dressing dpsnIas paTlors. nn. mAn'eu
Rev. Adams tied two knots this
week. One couple was from Lake
City-Henry Clay and Miss Lillian
Hauts. The second bride was also
named Lillian-Lillian Beatty from .
town in Missouri, and the lucky man
was Louis Sarrasin Of the Tomichi.
l notice . load Of furniture in front
Of the Shove residence near here.
Guess It Is Frank Cuthbert moving in.
] heard he and his wife had rented the
place.
was thinking Of closing this letter
when just remembered that l forgot
to tell you about the surprise party on
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Richardson the
other night. The affair was in honor
of their twentieth wedding anniver-
sary, and they received quite number
Of pretty gifts.
Must cIose now. Am ont of news.
With best regards to all, as ever,
AGNES.