The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-07-10
Gunnison and Pitkin



bunch of horses in pasture belong
ing to the west side cat ttlemen who
were riding the Castle Creek range
were struck by lightning and five
head killed One belonged to Ed.
Allen, one to Joe Eilebrecht, one to o.
ons to Martin VanVoorhis. A pecu-
E. Wieeman, one to Otis Moore and
liar feature of the case was the fact
that the five horses were strung along
the mountain side distance of 95
steps, not tree near any of them,
and apparently all killed by the
same flash, About 40 head of other
horses were in the pasture, but the
lightning seemed to select these
five in direct line along the hila-
side.
Lawrence Danley, nephew of w.
w. Mckee. who has been visiting
them for the past three weeks, left
for his home in Livingston, Calf,
Monday evening. He says he had
fine time and cherishes the hope that
he can come back again this summer.
The Howard family, C. NJ Campbell
family, Belle Sanders, Shorty Hansen,
Fay Lambert. Carmen Spencer spent
the fourth of July fishing on East
River. They spent the afternoon
gathering columbines near Crested
Butte, returning to Almont for sup
per.
The morning of the Fourth spe-
cial was run to Pitkin to accommo-
date the Colleeg students who could
not make arrangements to go by
auto. The students decided to have
their annual celebration at Pitkin
instead of Almont this year because
of the mosquitoes. About nine O'Clock
in the morning an eight coach passen-
ger train left for Pitkin taking the
students with their tin cups and
cameras.
The annual dance given at Almont
the fourth of July was enjoyed by
hosts of Gunnison and Crested Butte
young folks at the open air pavilion.
The music was furnished by Hawes
Orchestra who were here several
times last year. Supper was served
at twelve and the dance lasted until
early in the morning.
Tho following firemen from the d.
& R. G. w. left Sunday for Salida to
take the examination for engineer:
Tom Doyle, Frank Wright, John Ha-
ley, from Gunnison; Mr.. Russell and
Mr.. Oscarbes from Montrose; and
Sam Billings from Grand Junction.
We wish them the best of success.
Mrs. c. /. Miller and two daueh-
ters. Miss lima and Mrs. Joe Brown,
motored to Gunnison from Montrose
Saturday. They are making their
| home at the Bender residence and ex-
pect to be here most of the summer.
as Mr.Miller is working out of Gunni-
son for the d. & R. G.. w.
Joe Machione was married in Glen
wood Springs to josephine Eccher of
| Silt. the 7th. Mr. Machione is of
Crested Butte, and we'll known here.
They returned to Crested Butte
Wednesday, where they will make
| their future home.
Mr.. and Mrs Ballou and children
are in Gunnison visiting with Mrs.
Ballou's parents, Mr.. and Mrs jap
Pittser. Mrs. Pittser is planning ON
leaving for Denver soon to meet her
son Chester, who is coming home for
| the summer
A letter from the physician having
charge of Mrs. Shac kleford's case in
the sanitarSfm, says she is doing as
we'll as could be expected. This will
! please her many friends who are
earnestly hoping for her full recov-
cry.
Mrs Mable Thompson and William
Lockhart were married in Glenwood
| Springs on June 14th. Mrs. Lockhart
is Gunnison girl and her MANY
friends wish her many happy days.
Their future home will be in Salida
Mr.. and Mrs. Reed Carpenter of
Pueblo. spent last week in Gunnison
visiting Mrs. Frank Fisher. They re-
turned home Wednesday after enjoy
ing the fishing and Fourth at Almont.
d. w. Richardson, wife and little
son Clarence were up from Montrose
to spend the 4th with relatives. They
returned home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Knowles
daughter Louise and son John, spent
Sunday at Camp Cascadilla. UP Ce-
ment creek.