The daily sentinel., 1903-06-04
LOCAL LINKS.

| A number of Grand junction people
are planning to attend Strawberry dav
at Glenwood Springs The date -
Saturday. June goth.
Fred Gunter. the able assistant
baker at the Progress. left this morn
ing for Steamboat Springs, where he
will spend the summer.
Married June 4th, at the Methodist
Parsonage by Rev. R. Sanderson. Mr..
j. H. Klenger to Miss Daisy Roberts
both OF Grand Junction.
The horsemen having the races in
charge for Friday promise some fine
sport Tickes can be had of Will
Longshore or H. G. Bedwell.
Manager Greenway of the Mesa
Dry Goods company store. who has
been on the sick list for the past
several days. is some better.
Glenwood Springs is taking on her
summer resort garb aud the city is
fast filling up with tourists. who will
spend the heated term there.
The men from Maine. their wives
and children, who reside in and about
Aspen and Glenwood Springs will
hold their third annual picnic at the
latter place next Sunday.
At the charter convention in Denver
the civic ticket was elected. the can
didates receiving good majorities.
Among the men on this ticket was
Gen. John @. J. Kennedy, father of
James M. Kennedy of this city.
A postal mailed at Seattle. Wash
ington, Monday from Rev. James K.
Wier announces that he has enjoyed
his trip immensely and that he will
be home in time to hold regular serv
ices in the Presbyterian church.
A bevy of school teachers left last
night for trip to Colorado Springs
and Denver, where they will spend
few days of their we'll earned vaca-
ton. Among the party We're Misses
Norris, Bailey Hines, and Wapples.
One of the delivery horses, attached
to wagon belonging to Heron and
Cassells. was mired i'll the sewer at
the corner of Sth and Pitkin this
morning. 1t required the team of the
Dressed Beef company to pull the
animal out of the hole.
The railroad freight and transpor-
tation committee of the Chamber of
Commerce held meeting yesterday
and decided to push the matter of re-
ducing the high rates. which now
prevail here and see if something can
not be done to reduce the same.
r. E. Blair. foreman of the Herald
Democrat advertising room of Lead
vile, was in the city today ON his
way to Delta Mr. Blair is the owner
of the Delta INDEPENDENT office and
printer of the old-school, having
learned the trade in 1864 in Iowa.
DIR Covetry. of the Black Hills,
has performed some marvellous surgi-
cal operations throughout the east and
west, but at present he is doing only
refraction work. He is now ON his
way to Denvre to establish an insti-
tute. DR.. Covetry is stopping at the
new Western Hotel.
Grand Junction should be we'll
represented at Glenwood Springs on
Strawberry Day, June goth The peo-
pie of the western slope should come
to Grand Junction on July All, and
help celebrate Independence Day.
There will be rare sport. such as
races. base ball and other games.
Gus Olson's little boy, aged five,
had the misfortune to have his right
thumb cut off while playing around
a lawn mower. DR.. Fl. r. Bull
dressed the wound for the little fell
low. He placed the thumb back in
place, but such operations are difficult
and it is not likely that it will knit.
Owing to the melting of the snow
and ice on Grand Mesa it has been
feared by residents living in the
vicinity of the Mesa Lakes reservoirs
that they would break and men have
| been busy working ON the reservoirs
an1 xuatcIipc tbat No darOaUa is dona