The daily sentinel., 1900-07-21
Local News.

The fare over the Midland to Glen
wood for the road race tomorrow is only
$3.50 for round trip.
Mr.. A. Barney and Mr.. q. O. Meade,
travelling freight agents of the Rio
Grande, were in the city today looking
after business.
The following gentlemen will go to
Denver tomorrow night to look after
railroad rates far Peach Day: John 8.
Charlton, James Cosgrovs, M. L. Allison
and j. L. Walpole.
Rev. Dwight 8. Bayley, pastor of the
Congregational church of this city, will
spend Sunday in Collbran, where he
goes in the interest Of new church
which is being organized.
A handsome deer head now adorns the
wall in the Office of City Agent Peck of
the Midland. Mr.. Peck killed the ami
NAL last fall and he had the head mount
ed by George R. Blain, the expert taxi
dermist.
M. G. Ramsey is pushing the work on
the fruit evaporator for the Fruit Grow
ers association and expects to have it
completed by September 1st. Material
for the structure arrived this morning
from Denver.
Deputy Game Warden w. R. Lee of
Glenwood stopped off between trains
last night on his way homo from an in
teresting trip in the Gunnison country.
In two days this week Mr.. Lee rode over
a hundred miles on horseback
When in Denver recently on business
visit, j. j. Lumsden paid visit to his
wife who is lying at st. Joseph hospi-
tai in a very critical condition. Mrs.
Lumsden has recently undergone two
very delicate operations, but Mr.. Lums-
don reports that she is getting along very
nicely.
Mr.. Louis s. Scott OF New York, and
owner Of one of the largest fruit ranches
in the valley, is in the city. He has
with him friend in the person of Mr..
st. John Robinson of Dublin, Ireland.
From here the gentlemen go to the
White River country on a hunting and
fishing trip.
The program of the Peach Day cele-
bration has not been fully arranged, but
there will be a fine display of fruit and
all kinds of products Of the valley which
will be worth coming many miles to see.
In the amusement line there will be base
ball, balloon ascensions, cowboy tourna-
ment, pie eating contest, fat mems races,
girls races, ETC., with plenty Of brass
band music. In the evenings there will
be grand display Of fireworks, and the
famous Ouray Orientals will be with the
crowd at least ono evening.
Mr Harry E. Jones, who has been the
guest Of Horace T. DeLong and G. B.
Rich, leaves for his home ir San Jose,
California, tonight. Mr.. Jones has been
ON an extensive tour through Texas, Old
resided at Aspen and Leadville. Mr..
Jones informed representative of this
paper that Oklahoma City was on big
boom and that several hundred new bus
iness houses and residences were going
up. He said that the prospects for a
full fruit crop in the famous Santa Clara
valley we're bright when he left home.
Mr.. Jones is a nephew OF Mr.. DeLong.
The 81 Perkins Comedy Company
which opens four nights engagement
at the Park opera house next Wednes-
day has just closed a most prosperous
three weeks engagement at the Lyceum
theater at Lead sille. The Leadville
Miner Gays: when the 81 Perkins
company was here six weeks ago, for
weeks engagement, it played to the big
gest business ever done in the Lyceum
theater in one week. This time the
company is playing in the face OF dis
advantages yet the attendance each
night has been large and the business
during tho week will be satisfactory.
The company is stronger today than
ever before and no better bills have ever
been presented at the Lyceum than are
being presented now"