The daily sentinel., 1903-05-21

close June 29th.
Summer hats at right prices. Sub
lett & Roberts.
The noon train was five hours late
in this city yesterday.
Harry Roger of Fairbury. Nebraska,
is the guest of friends in the city.
Nothing old or made over in our
store. Come in and see for yourself
Sublett and Roberts.
Glassford placed new awnings
around the windows of the new Sem
ate restaurant yesterday.
A lot of barking, bowling ours
make tho nights miserable for many
citizens in the eastern part of the city.
E. B. Bonnell, formerly with Lee
and Son. is working for tile Mesa
County Abstract company in cleri-
cal capacity.
Gates Kersberg and Mayor Sampli
ner purchased this morning 240 acres
of the Lewis johnson estate located
northwest of the city.
When the Grand Valley does exper-
fence summer weather it can be said
that they entered the summer season
direct from winter weather
Miss Lucy Hull of Sutton. Ne
braska. is an arrival in the city. She
is a sister of Claude Hull. and will
make Grand Junction her home.
The brick building just finished by
G. W. Steele on the corner of Fourth
and Main streets, will be extended to
the alley between Main and Colorado
avenue.
Rev. J. A. Becker of the Congrega-
tional church will preach the bacca-
laureate sermon to the graduates OF
the High school in the Park opera
house next Sunday evening.
The better class of houses is being
readily taken by renters. The old
house, for which the owner would
stand for no repairs, is going to be
back number in this city, with so
many new houses.
1t is said that an effort will be
made to have all state water commits
sioners pass an examination as to their
fitness in irrigation matters hereafter.
That in the future this office will not
be dispensed as part of the political
patronage of any set of officers.
The Times yesterday had quite a
lengthy interview with Archie Gra-
hame of this city, ON his friendship
as school boy with General S. S.
Baden Powell, the hero of Mafeking.
Archie evidently knew the distin
guished warrior in his boyhood days.
The weather man says that it will
be fair tomorrow. It's about time
he awoke to the realization, that this
is not the kind of weather Grand val
ley people are usually served at this
time of the year. This should be
summer time, unless things are begin
ming to go backwards.
1t is wonder that the correspon-
dents of the Denver papers at Delta
anu hOntrOSe, ulu uOI IeleSTdIH Ine
press of Denver that the late fl ost did
not hurt their fruit at all, but that it
did damage the fruit of Mesa county.
This is the long suit of Delta CORES
pondents of the Denver papers.
The wind blew great gons last night.
No more terrific wind possibly has
ever been experienced than that
which blew i'll puffs at times during
the early morning hours today. This
valley is. .receiuing more than its full
share of heavy wind this spring. In
fact the amount of wind is unusual.
State Game Warden Thomas G.
Higgins, in speaking this morning of
the newspaper war in which his son
John. G. is engaged with Dave Day.
said: II guess the Kid is big enough
to care for himself. 1 know that he
is on the right side and has ohe senti-
ment of the majority of the people of
Durango back of him. -
Porter Bros. one of the largest fruit
houses of the CITY of Chicago, failed
| Yesterday in Chicago This firm has