The daily sentinel., 1903-08-17
5 LOCAL NEWS.

Our prices-one to all Grand
Valley Store Reed Block.
Miss Minnie Roberts is suffering
from a relapse of typhoid fever.
whippIe Chester, Sentinel en-
ploye took pleasure run to Minturn
Sunday.
Miss Nettie Blain is home from her
annual vacation, most of which was
spent in Denver.
Misses Efie and Alice Lee left
Sunday night for Salt Lake City.
where they will spend several weeks.
Messrs. Morgenthau and Desch de-
sire to thank the public for the grand
crowd which attended the opening of
their Grand Valley Store.
Richard Meserve and family return
ed last night from Mesa Lakes where
they have been for an outing. Miss
Priscilla Price accompanied them.
Tim Manion went down to his
home in Grand junction Monday to
get acquainted with his family whom
he had not seen since last April. -
Ouray Plaindealer.
Mrs. Thomas Chambers and daugh-
tire Gussie who had been the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. John Duff for a week
returned to their home in Garnd juno
tion Tuesday. Plaindealer.
1t is no exaggeration to state that
fully thousand and probably more
people read the bulletins in The SEN
tinel window Saturday. From the
time they were put up at 3'10 in the
afternoon they We're read until late in
the evening.
The first cantalonpes from the
the coming week. These cantaloupes
are just as fine as the Rocky Ford
variety and will bring Just as high a
price in the market. They are not
going to be offered as Rocky Ford. but
will have name of their own
Glenwood Avalanche.
Little 6-year- old Alexander Eggles
ton, who for the past six weeks has
visited with his grandmother. Mrs.
4. L. Eggleston was put aboard the
train for his home in Grand Junction,
Monday morning. Beginning at an
early age. he may be much travelled
man by the time he reaches three
score and ten. n.-Ouray Plaindealer
Austin Gavin has Just returned
from an examination of the orchards
of the Grand valley, and he says that
the amount of fruit to be shipped out
this year will exceed all expectations.
Speaking of watermelons and canta-
loupes. Mr.. Gavin says one man alone
will ship out 1876 crates of cantaloupes
from Palisades Glenwood Avalanche
A. J. McCune. of Denver. formerly
of this city has written an urgent let
ter to the Chamber of Commerce to
secure if possible fine fruit exhibit
to be taken to the irrigation Congress
meeting to convene at Ogden, Sept
ember 18th Mr.. McCune as second
vice president of the Congress takes
a large interest in Mesa county affaiis
and says that it ought to be no trouble
for exhibit from the Grand Valley to
capture one or more of the first prizes.
1t is to be hoped that the exhibit tax
en- from this county will be the best
possible to be obtained.
After Uncle Sam had fallen down
on the scheme to reclaim arid Amer
lea around Grand Jucntion a private
enterprise headed by some Denver
men, steps into do the work by form
ing an irrigation district and issuing
bonds. The work can be done for Si5
an acre and this is S. an acre less
than the governments climate ON
easy work. According to the govern
ment's former calculation all reclama-
tion work in the United States for all
time past cost only 1915 cents an acre
and most of this work was done before
modern machinery came into use to
lessen the cost. and Farm.
! The Denver Post of Saturday con-
tanned picture of Willett Barton, u
former Grand Junction boy. The
picture was in connection with the
publication of the fact that he is now
the leader of the regimental band OF
the 2nd regiment Colorado National
Guard at Florence. The article in
referring to Mr. Barton saws ssSince