The daily sentinel., 1903-12-28
1908 will soon leap into leap year.

Resolved Tor l9O4; Knock the
knocker. Boost the booster -
Chales Kessler. brother of Mrs.
D. D. Strock. of Pueblo. is visiting
in the city.
A number of the stores in the city
will make an inventory of their stock
of goods next week.
The members of the Colorado Glee
and Mandolin Club went up the Gun
nison today as skating party.
At the regular meeting of the Elks
tonight two candidates will'be initial
ed into the mysteries of the order.
Arrangements are about completed
TO erect another fine brick business
block on Main street between 9th and
9Th.
The dry climate of the valley has
caused many people to be afflicted
with sore throat and bad cold this
winter
a paragraph in an Eastern paper
says that rats eat $50. 600, 900 worth
of food in this country in one year. -
Rats9 Rats2
Happy HooliRan. the funniest of all
stage productions, Will be the attrac-
tion at the Park opera house Wednes-
day night. December 30th.
Members of the Colorado Glee and
Mandolin Club sang at several of the
churches yesterday. Tonight they
appear at the Park opera house.
While the east has been enjoying
big blizzard the weather in the
Grand valley has been as near perfect
as it well could have been the past
week
The fiat janitors of Chicago announce
they will strike ON January lst
This Will probably be the ''fattest"
strike in the history OF the "Windy
City"
For the benefit of the hundreds of |
ranchmen in the Plateau valley the
Stockman publishes the county com
missioners proceedings AS IA country
MttklN lllt CEOthU Is nara TO DGuI.
Now is the time of the year when
new and good resolutions are in order.
One of the best resolutions we could
suggest is Boost all the year fol
Grand Junction and the Grand
valley
With the smelter and sugar factory
to be in operation and all of the
other industial enterp,i-es of Grand
Junction on a firm footing next year
will show a prosperity in this city
never known before
George J. d. Williams. county
treasurer. and wife returned home /
from Gunnison Yesterday, where they
spent Christmas with relatives. 1t
was Mr.. Williams first vacation since
taking the office of treasurer and he
enjoyed it immensely.
ii. Strousse. one of the progressive
business men of Georgetown, is in the !
city visiting the proprietors of the G..
V. Store, who are relatives of Mr.
Strousse. He is greatly pleased with
Grand Junction and notes that this is
one of the good cities of Colorado.
\ number of acres of the dry land
above the ditch is being plowed and
put in shape for spring planting OF
fruit trees. This is the best land in
the state and will be watered by the
new High Line ditch. ~ork on which
will commence Monday. -Palisade
Tribune
Real estate in and about Palisade
these DAYS and many new people from
eastern states are coming in to make
that section of Mesa county their
home. Some of the very best fruit
and ranch land in the valley is locat-
ed in that section of the county.
The day before Christmas number
of the warm personal frionds of David
Seton. presented him with hand
some gold head cane. fittingly inscrib-
ed. The cane was fine piece of
work and Mr.. Seton was taken COM
pletely by surprise. The donors
were we'll known railway men ana sew
eral former fellow conductors, when
Mr.. Sefton was employed on the West
ern.
Howard II. Bunting. who spent
four months in this city during the
past fall, has gone to st. Louis to en-
ter the Hamilton Brown Shoe Co IS
wholesale establishment. Mr. Bunt-