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Show Incorrectly Quoted. Our last week's clipping from the Washington County News with reference to Sully Mecks, aged 97, being be-ing "Utah's oldest living person," has elicited the information that Gunnison has a citizen older still than Mrs. Meeks. Gunnison Gazette. No such claim was made by The Washington County News. The article referred to spoke of Mrs. Sally Meeks as "Utah's oldest Pioneer," and was evidently misquoted by the Gunnison Gun-nison Gazette. We republish the item, which is from our Leeds correspondence of the lGth ult. Editor, News. "Mrs. Mary J. Meeks and son Of Glen-dalc, Glen-dalc, Kane Co., arrived here on the 13th and departed on the 14th, taking with them Utah's oldest pioneer, Mrs. Sally Meeks, aged 97 years," |