The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1904-09-09

at his boarding house, MrF. Kelley's,
by number of his young gentlemen
friends, to assist him in celebrating
birthday event. The evening was
most enjoyable one and will long be
remembered by those present. The
young gentlemen who were there
were James Sanders. Wilkes OinwId
die, Ben Allison. Ollie Bannister and
A. Schlicheine.
A friend, in speaking of the dearth
of news items occurring remarked Il
do not see how yon continue to fill
several columns each day with pure
meaty news items. ] can see how you
could fill your local columns with
comment. reiterating matters that
have been touched On time and time
again. but to fill each successive day
a certain space with genuine news
matter, it is really hard to understand
how it is DONE The friend certain
ly did not underestimate the work
necessary to accomplish such an end.
1t takes work. as anyone can tell who
has attempted the work i'll small
town. continuous, unremitting labor.
Generally, however, devotion to the
task set and desire to please the pa
irons of the paper. is the sole incen-
tive and generally brings fruition each
day. The Sentinel hopes to never
grow weary in keeping to the fore in
its daily task of news gathering.
Secretary Green, of the Spencer
Seedless Apple COMPANY. is in receipt
of copy of the Fruit Grower. a wide
ly read California publication that
contains on its title page column
and half article. regarding the Spen-
Ger seedless apple. The publication
probably has hundred thousand read
ers throughout the Pacific coast states
and it can be readily seen what wide
publicity the apple is receiving in re-
putable journals. And incidentally it
can be stated that in each and every
one of the hundreds of articles already
publ shed regarding this horticultural
wonder. the name of Grand Junction.
the home city of the apple comes in
lOI liltullOn DCSldC tAAio
great amount of advertising. each day
large basket of correspondence an6
literature is sent from the home office
by Secretary Green going tn the four
quarters of the globe. answering in
quiries and placing the literature of
thousands.
The Sentinel is quite anxious to
know the number of pc ople who have
gone from this city ana county during
the time from the opening of the
great Worlds Fair at st. Louis in May
up to the present time and those who
expect to visit the fair b, f IRE its Close
1t would be pleased to receive postal
card from all who have been there,
naming those in the party. whether
more than one. and at what time they
first viewed the exposition. The pur-
pose of making such a compilation is
to show the number of people who
have Travelled to the great fair from
the farthermost county in the state
of Colorado, across the Rocky Noun
tain range to visit the fair and to pub
intelligence and the prosperity of the
people of this county and state. This
paIer realizes that it is quite a task
to secure such statistics, such informa-
ton being more readily available
several months ago, but if sufficient
response Is received the list will be
published. This paper believes
larger proportion of people went from,
this county than from any other
county in the state, siza and distance
considered and for that matter from
almost any county in any other west
ern state The list would reach pro-
badly a hundred or more. Send
postal. the record would be unique.
Mrs Almeda n. Jay. the very eff
cient secretary of the Carnegie library
board and also the city librarian. is
at the present time devoting herself
to the task of Attempting to convince
Andrew Carnegie. the founder IF the
present library, that he could not do
a better act than to appropriate an
additional sum of $40, 900 toward the
extension of the library building. 1t
is found that additional room is badly
needed. to be used as an assembly room
and for other and many purposes. sug-
gested by the splendid growth of the
library in this city. The work under
taken to secure the additional gift
from Mr.. Carnegie is based upon the
fact that generally his appropriations