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Show Gunnison." Theysaya as how weol fogies are behind tLe times, and Guu nison is going to beal Salt Luke b-fore b-fore long. It certainly is exciting, arid onedoutgat so lonesome like. You know old Doll went lame and I been thinking of trading her for Djb9 automobile, though I believe I would rather trade with Ludvicson. Thure is so much doing iu Gunnison that 1 cant start to tell you all, so I will send the paper every week. Give it to the neighbors ao they will know too what is doing iu Gunnison. With love to you and Si Jr, I am hs always. SI PUNKINS. Si to Maria. Gunnison, Utah, May 25, 1910. My Dear Wife, As I have nothing else in particular to do, I take my pen in hand to tll yon that I am well. How is Si Jr. and the tater patch growing? Has old Bill Jarger kept hia yeller heffer cor-relled cor-relled since I been gone? By the way Maria, have you seen Halley's commet? It is all the talk in Gunnison. What would you have don if the tail had swept all of us off the earth? I have just been calculating calculat-ing as how Maria Punkius would have been a wider. But gee whiz, if she bad collided with the earth. Wouldnt there have been something rousing in Gun-nisou Gun-nisou though, and wouldnt all the good people have been seeing stars. Gess it would have kind of woke some of them up to the things that are doing do-ing in this city. But isnt that comet going some, 2000 miles a minute. That comet just reminds me that Gunnison is going some too. The city Fathers, commonly called Dads, are spending the good peoples money to run water in a pipe way from Sterling. I cant calculate how they will make the water run up hill, but a bully big fellow, by the name of Liemau, says it will, acd everybody believes bim because he is a big man and stays at the University. Any way they complain com-plain of Gunnisou water being too salty I have been thinking of bying me a place in Gunnison, because it is so pretty, but if we use this water, we will have to buy salt to cook our vitals in, and I want to tell you that will be no small expense either. I hear lots about knockers and boosters, but they cant deny that we will have to buy more salt. Why Maria, 1 had a swig of that water from a barrel aside of-the of-the new Lectric Light office, aud it didnt taste like anything. That barrel puts me in mind of the lectric light. Dont you remember those glass bottle lights we couldnt blow out when we was at that hotel iu Salt Lake, and we had to sleep with that pesky thing shining in our eyes all night. Well, those are the things they are going to have in Gunnison, but you got to pay for them. The Company is building an office in old Beauregards sample room, but it surely looks swell. W jll Maria you wont know Gunnison Gunni-son auy more. Its most a city like Salt Lake now. Every body stands around on th? street corners, and talks automobiles, water and light. You used to could either see nobody, or tbey were talking about their mules and sheep. Even tha weekly Gazette says: "All together for a greater |