Gunnison news-champion., 1924-06-27
Charley Adams Writes
e Far Eastern Friea1s
1t Cleveland Ceavestiss
(Continsed from First l1eel

(Continued frum Fifst l1ge)
We went into the new county court
house and gave il . once over. This
Is the building that cost several mil
lion dollars and has an interior finish
Of marble from the town Of Marble
in Gunnison county. Near the en-
trance I asked the uniformed and
pompous guide where the marble
came from and to my amaxement he
did not know. He, however, directed
me TO two other people whom he thot
might know, but they were as dumb
as clans. Finally we went into the
appellate court room, the most gor-
geous court room was ever in, and
the clerk there said he had heard the
marble came from the Rocky Noun
tains somewhere. possibly near Pueblo
but that the company and quarries
had gone out Of existence. The court
room was finished, the walls in solid
oak shipped In from the farm Of Will
liam Penn's father In England, and Il
was 70 somber that Il gave me the
ereeps- I would surely plead guilty
to anything II were brought before
that august court Of three judges.
! think Il would be q good plan for
the Gunnison chamber Of commerce to
have a tablet placed in that court
house telling folks where the marble
came from, don't you?
Had the pleasure Of meeting the
husband of Irene Sampliner, but I
cannot recall his name just now. He
| is q lawyer and q most pleasant young
fellow. Later saw Irene in her own
home and she is a very happy young
| mother. with a bright babe about q
year old-a daughter.
Crested Butte folks will remember
NJ. ]. Roth, brother Of H. f. Roth and
nephew of Click Bros. Of Crested
Butte. He is engaged in the manu-
facture of silk stockings at Cleveland
| and he has named his hosiery the
"Floresta" line after the Floresta coal
camp above Crested Butte. He is do
ing a nice business. II would be q
fine thing for the ladies' Of Gunnison
county to have only Floresta silk
hose hereafter Us a mark Of loyalty to
former Gunnison county boy who is
still loyal to his old home county.
We went thru the new Union Trust
Company building. which is the larg-
est banking institution in the world,
that is, the building covers the largest
space Of any banking house. It Is q
marvel of beauty and 1t is 22 stories
high.
Tuesday Mr.. Sampliner took me for
Q drive over the city. He is master
ing car and does fine job Of wind
ing in and around the traffic of that
busy city. We then wound up ut the
pretty Sampliner home where Mrs.
Sampliner greeted me most cordially
and had wonderfully appetixing din
ner steaming on the stove baked with
gas from West Virginia.
Have you seen the old home town
paper the last week :" said Mrs. Sam
pliner, soon after greetings were spok-
en-. told her had not and she brot
out the News Champion Of the last
two issues, and devoured their con-
tents eagerly. 1t was great to get
the paper there and to read Of the
movings of old time friends.
II can hardly wait for the time to
come for the News Champion every
week." Mrs. Sampliner went on. The
| first one to get to the door when the
mail man whistles goes after that
PAPER before anything else is done,
| and If Mr.. Sampliner gets it first, we
have 4 genuine scrap to see which will
/ get to read it first. Everything else
is secondary to 1t, for we both want
TO know what has happened there the
last week. It is such fine paper and
50 full Of news that we are able to
keep in touch with everything that is
occurring.
"You simply cannot imagine. II you
have never experienced 1t, what a
feeling comes over one, after they
have lived in q place as long as we
did in Gunnison and knew everyone
SO well, to go away and be able to
keep in touch with everything that is
going on. We just love Gunnison and
all her people-and we rejoice with
them in any good fortune that comes
to them, and hearts are saddened when
we learn Of their i'll luck or q dear
one taken away. Then we pass the
paper on to Irene and she Is just as
interested as we are, and occasionally
when m old Gunnisonite happens into
Cleveland and finds us, we are able to
give him some news that he did not
know about. O, we would not take
the world for our News-C Champion"
know the full meaning Of every
word these good friends uttered; for
is nothing that can take the place Of
the hometown paper.
The Sampliners are beautifully To-
Gated in . handsome four-story apart
ment house that they own, occupying
the second floor. They also own a
number Of business properties in the
city from which they derive q nice
income. Mr.. Sampliner has retired
from active business entirely.
was also their guest at the Palace
theatre, most gorgeous playhouse,
isaid to be one Of the most beautiful
in the country, and witnessed very
interesting vaudeville show.
There l had my first opportunity to
see on the movie screen the reproduc-
ton Of sound and action at the same
time. The machine used was the De-
Forrest phonoflm, and saw Chaun-
cey n. Depew speaking on his Goth
birthday and heard him speak as
plainly as though / had been seated
close TO him when he actually spoke.