The daily sentinel., 1904-08-31

paper Syndicate. Of California. Mr.
CaIkins recently visited here with his
wife. with Mrs. Emma NJ Wsds-
worth. who is cousin of Mrs Cslk-
ins. Mr.. Calkius is a native Calfor-
nisn, and these pleasant words from
him sound ali the better in praise Of
this valley. coming from man who
has travelled 50 extensively.
3. P. Lewis, of Memphis, Tennes-
see. grand organizer of the order of
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of
America. is a visitor to the city. Mr.
Lewis for many years was in the south
entirely hut he has been transferred
to the northern country. He is
most delightful man to meet and the
members of the order in the city are
showing him a pleasant time during
his stay. A special meeting will be
held tonight, for the purpose Of Mr.
Lewis meeting the members of the
order.
". r. Walker. of near Hayden,
Routt County. father of NJ. P. Walker
who formerly conducted a business
in this city. now residing at Palisade
is a visitor. Mr.. Walker has large
rauchiug interests in the Bear River
country. and comes to the valley to
visit his son and other relatives He
took a drive through the orchards
yesterday and observed today that he
never anticipated that be would see
so many apples at one time in his
life, and that probably he did not see
nearly all of them.
On exhibition in front of the post
Office this afternoon. E. F. Gibbons
of Rast's Ranch, near Palisade, is
box of peaches of the Elberta variety,
which contains but thirty eight
peaches to tie box. On one layer
there are bat twenty peaches and on
the other eighteen Mr. Gibbons will
place these peaches in cold storage to
save them for exhibition at the Fruit
Fair Association He sent a similar
box with thirty six back to the World :
Fair at ST. Louis The peaches are
creating quite sensation.
call was made on President J. II.
Ramey. of the Chamber of Commerce.
from Thomas d. Parker. secretary Of
the Colorado Promotion & Publicity
Committee, for number of the new
booklets Just issued by the Chamber
of Commerce Mr.. Parker states that
he will give the books wide distribu
tion and that he will place them in
the hands of the different offices of the
committee and also to the bureau at
the Worlds Fair Mr. Falconer ship
ped 500 books last night by express
and sent large number also to the
Colorado Midland road.
The officers of the Fruit Fair were
very pleased to receive this morning
from Messrs.. Fleming and Lamb, of
this city, one of their very best Home
Comfort ranges as a special premium
to be given at the coming Fair for
the best general display of fruits and
farm products This is a very gener-
Gus offer which the people through
out the county can we'll afford to
compete for. Additional special pre-
miums have been donated by other
merchants and manufacturers. who
are glad to stimulate the competition
for prizes, and at the same time take
advantage Of the advertising medium
thus afforded Additional special pre-
miums will be welcomed by the asso-
citation.
Felix Roberts, of Blackfoot, Idaho.
accompanied by his wife were arriv.
ais in the ,ity yesterday on a visit tc
their uncle David Roberts. Felix
Roberts resided here with his uncle
about twelve, years and is known tc
the young men of that day. as he was
one of lively crowd of boys growing
into young manhood in the city al
that time. He was one of the most
companionable of boys and had a
large circle OF friends. With hi.
brother George, who also resided here
for time. he went to Blackfoot and
they now have in operation two large
mills. which they are operating most
successfully. Mr.. Roberts sees many
notable changes in Grand Junction
and he still believes, as he believed
when he lived here that. it is destin-
ed to be one of the large cities of Col.
orado.
Recently anent the passing up OF
Grand Junction by the Salvation
Army and their location in Telluride,
the Sentinel of that city took occasion
to rather broadly intimate that Grand
Junction was so much superior &c
Telluride morally that these indust-