Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1920 — BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE ON EXHIBITION IN COLORADO [ARTICLE]

BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE ON EXHIBITION IN COLORADO

The Colorado State Museum has a new exhibit that is being viewed with longing eyes and watery lips. It is a bottle of champagne of ancient vintage. ' ■ _ .3 Along with relics of Colorado “cave dwellers” and pagan collections from the old world, the bottle of sparkling beverage is carefully guarded. The champagne. is a souvenir of pioneer days, having been brought across the plains in . a prairie schooner for- a banquet given by Denver citizens to members of the 1868 Territorial Legislate. It is the lone survivor of many bottles of rare wine served to on that occasion, and was presented to the museum by C. M. McLaughlin, speaker of the Territorial House of Representatives in 1868.