The daily sentinel., 1900-09-16
Local News.
clean RAGS wanted at this office.

Inc 6LAV0 ropuUuCna CouVohsAon 80 -
session in Denver today.
Prof. Barnes dog and pony show gave
an exhibition in DeBeque today.
The high wind today made 1t very dis
agreeable 10 be on the streets.
Fresh line of bakery supplies always
on hand at "The Progress" Try it,.
First door east OF Hardy Bros.
Wanted Good girl for general house
work. Call at residence OF j. 8. Kent,
Sixth and Rood.
CONNECTIONS, cigars. and fancy grocer
les at "The Progress. Next to Hardy
Bros.
The Denver Post put out special"
number last Wednesday advertising the
western slope and especially Aspen,
Glenwood and Grand Junction.
Peach Day 1900 has passed into his
tory yet there is plenty Of fruit in the
Grand valley and tons of it being shipped
out daily.
p. K. Morris OF Battlement Mesa has
Sydney Broughton at work on his place
building him an evaporator for his large
yield of plums and pears. 1t ia eetimat-
ed that Mr.. Morris will have 800 bush els
OF pears and $500 bushels Of plums from
his orchard this year.-Glenwood Ava
lanche.
Governor and Mrs. Waite and Miss
Sadie Rogers returned last night from a
trip to Grand Junction. They spent
some time in visiting the Teller Indian
school and were surprised to see the ad-
vancement the Indian pupils make in
both speaking the English language and
in writing it correctly Aspen Demo-
crat.
The people Of Grand junction are to
be congratulated upon the way the fes-
tival was conducted. Everyone tried to
make the visitors feel at home and to
show them good time and they admir-
ably succeeded in 30 doing. The pro-
gram was carried out in excellent style
and the fruit. always OF the finest, was
very plentiful. Everyone is loud in the
praises of the Junctionires. Mesa coun-
ty is not slow in anything Of that kind
aud it is pretty hard for your festivals to
come up tn Peach Day at Grand juno
tion .-Collbran Oracle.
The games OF base ball at Grand juno
tion during the festivities of Peach Day
were exciting in the extreme. While
the Telluride club carried the palm OF
victory and the Aspen club lost the pen
nant Of the western slope. Still the As
general good, and it's reserve strength
was not sufficient to meet the demands
made upon it, However they recognize
the quality of the Telluride team, and
day. The game Friday was between the
Telluride and Grand junction clubs
with score Of 1S to IA in iavor Of the
former club. The Tellurides got first
money and the Grand junction second.
The boys have nothing but praise for the
Grand junction people, and they enjoy
ed themselves immensely Aspen Trib
une.
The excitement over the rich showing
in the oil fields in Routt county still con-
tinues undated. Investors in large
numbers are looking over the country
carefully and the representatives OF big
companies in the east have been in the
country all summer and are we'll pleased
with the prospects. On Monday the
machinery Of the arst oil plant in Routt
county was installed by the County I'M
provement company, with headquarters
at Florence. The land on which this
plant WAS installed lies seven miles west
Of Steamboat Springs on Elk river and
as soon as the flow Of oil justifies the in
vestment, the company will in all proba-
bility locate its tanks. The machinery
for the big plant owned by B. Clark
Wheeler is now en- route and will be in
operation by October 1st. There have
been more people in Routt county this
year than at any time in the last ten
years.