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Show Gunnison Gossip By 0. Nemo. A ride through the central and northern part of Sanpete county ha: demonstrated to the writer that Gun nison valley is the garden spot of San Pote. Harvest time will prove this to be the truth. . Let everybody lay aside their business busi-ness cares for one day and join in celebrating cel-ebrating Pioneer day in honor of the old settlers, who laid the foundations of the richness we now enjoy. Let us show our gratitude to those who transformed trans-formed a desert into a garden of fruitful fruit-ful fields. The African lions and tigers had no terror for Col Roosevelt, but the stand-pat elephant and the iusurgeot zebra of the United States rendered him speechless. Both of these carnivorous car-nivorous beasts are after him with blood in their eyes. What if one of these animals should catch the colonel, colon-el, and the other not get a smell? ''In time of peace prepare for war" is a sensible rule of action. Our citizens citiz-ens are proceeding ia accordance therewith. In the time of hot weather weath-er they are preparing for cold weather by stocking up on coal. Many tons are now being stored away tc bluff Old Boreas next winter. Our city officials have again awakened awak-ened from a warm weather 6nooze and are striving to solve the waterworks problem. They are wondering if the credit of Greater Gunnison is Btrong enough to borrow a few thousand dollars to complete the system, as the with his impulse to soar amid the clouds on a fragil craft, still contin -ues to dash his brains out in the presence pres-ence of an applading multitude; thousands of vociferous young ladies and gentlemen will stand in a bleak November chill and watch a biutal football contest, where our young men of the highest physical perfection perfec-tion are bruised, twistad, crippled for life, and killed outright. And yet our straight laced moral keepers see nothing to condemn but a little contest, con-test, of skill and endurance between two athletes who fail to harm each j other, as much as though they were ohasiog the wild beasts in the jungles of Africa, There is such a thing as being more nice than wise ; of choking chok-ing a microbe and swallowing a whole menagerie, Motion pictures are only a record of past events, and if anyone wishes to see the Reno battle depicted on the stage let them have a chance ; it is no more shocking than the pictures of the Custer masacre at Little Big Horn . The writer alone is repousible for the opinions expressed iu the "items of gossip." bonds voted are not quite sufficient to put it iu running order. If necessary, the responsible busi-ble busi-ble business men of the city should stand behind this enterprise in such a way that it will be pushed vigorously vigor-ously to completion this year. Dont be fearful of Gunnisonrs growth or its ability to pay for such needed im provement. It looks as though the people of the United States were being served with a surfiet of "Molley Coddleism." The mayors aud divinity students of many large cities have proclaimed against the exhibition of certaiu moving mov-ing pictures exemplifying a little athletic ath-letic exercise between Mr, Jeffries and Mr. Johnson. A full detailed account by rounds waB printed in almost every newspaper newspa-per in Christendom and read by about every man, woman and child that could read. The mauly ait of self defense seems to have grown unpop ular ail of a sudden. Had the result been in favor of Jeffries there would be heard no howl of disapproved and this great moral wava would have re- LL.aiucu at. lest. Great paintings of battles and physical contests, whtre men are but-cheiedinthe but-cheiedinthe most horryfying man ner, adorn the walls of our art galleries galler-ies aud are shown by the films of the moving picture shows and command the admiration of even the sanctified. The automobile riders, in their mad passion for speed, continue to smash themselves and others ; the aviator, |