The daily sentinel., 1903-08-21
Local Overflow.

For Rent-7-room house, good To-
cation. Apply here.
Miss Ada Rumble went to Fruita to-
day, on train numbre 3.
W. H. Miller of the public schools
is home from Colorado Springs.
The water main was being tapped
at the corner of Fifth and Main streets
today.
The Crown Furniture company. is
the name of the new incorporation of
the Krohn Brothers
f. d. Catlin, a prominent attorney
of Montrose. accompanied by his wife,
were visitors to the city this morn
ing. They left over the narrow guage
for their home.
@. G. johnson, of Pamona, Cali
fornia, brother of James A. Johson
has started for visit to this city and
is coming by the way of New Orleans
and st. Louis. He can go that way
as cheaply as coming direct.
Hon James W. Bucklin, who has
been ON the sick list the greater part
of this summer has gone to California,
hoping that change of climate will
materially benefit his health. Mr..
Bucklin has many warm friends in
this city who will hope that his rest
in California will rebuild his health.
Fosters storms, predicted between
the 21st and tie 24th. came in due time
to most parts of the state, save the
Grand valley. A very heavy rain fell
at Leadville yesterday and all along
the line of the Rio Grande road.
Slight showers fell here. The skies
looked angry in the east last night, in
dicating heavy storms across the hills.
Edwin A Haskell. manager of the
Haskell Bill Posting company and
the Grand Junction opera house was
in the city Yesterday in the interest
OF the annual Peach day celebration,
which is one of the great yearly festi
vlas of Colorado ard which has made
Grand Junction and the Western Slope
| fruit district famous. Mr.. Haskell
states the celebration this year will
be record breaker.
The Peach Day executive committee
was hard at work last night at the
Chamber of Commerce rooms. Chair
man Miller has been pushing work and
| it looks very much as if the display
of fruit from the different sections of
the county will be large and represen-
tative The official program has not
been fully prepared. but it is being
licked into shape and it promi ses to
give good three days of amusement.
Charles B. Rich will shortly remove
from his present location i'll what is
known as the Crawford block. to the
place just made vacant by Patrick
| Griffin, which is owned by his mother
Mrs. Josephine Rich. Mr.. Rich
| will have the entire building renovat
ed. There will be new floor new
front and general painting and over
hauling of the building. The loca-
| tion is a most excellent one and The
Sentinel can commend the place as n
business point. as it was in that build
ing it fought hard battle for existence
in its early history.
The Grand Junction people, in APP
pointing their executive committee
for their annual peach day celebra-
tion on September s, 8 and 10. made
no mistake when they placed /. N.
Bunting, the we'll known newspaper
man of that city, ON the advertising
end OF the programme. The first
thing he did was to send the newspap-
er fraternity box of Grand junction
peaches Just to show what kind OF
fruit they raise down there. But
then those who have eaten Grand
Junction peaches in the past known
they are luscious. Nothing finer any
where ON earth. Those who have
never eaten them will be at Grand
Junction on Peach Day next month.
A splendid programme is being arrang-
ed