The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1905-12-02


Julian S. Dulray. of Dodgeville.
Wisconsin, is new arrival in the
city.
Mr. and Mrs. F. p. Wood. of Glen
wood Springs, are the guests of
friends in the city.
Harry Burnett, proprietor of the
Grand hotel, has been quite i'll for
several days but is now improving.
T. L. Mitchell, the Vernal attor-
ney, who is well known here. is greet
ing Grand Junction friends today.
w. G. Choate, division superintend-
ent of the Denver & Rio Grande.
leaves this evening for Denver on a
short visit.
Little Willie Weir Is now improv-
ing steadily after a very trying ILL
ness and his recovery is only a matter
of Gfew days.
Tomorrow. at dinner from five I'M
til eight o'clock. roast duck and
sweet potatoes will be served at the
Windsor Cafe.
Mirror plating. upholstering, and
furniture repairing of all kinds at the
Furniture hospital, 244 Colorado ave-
nue.. Prices most reasonable. Orders
promptly filled,
Horace T. belong reports the sale
of lots in the Orchard subdivision,
No. % of the town of Fruita. to Geo.
f. Crosby. Consideration 5000. The
lots belonged to Prof. f. T. Fisher.
Tomorrow evening at the Auditor
ium the annual memorial service of
the Elks will be held. The program
as published in the Sentinel on We'd
nesday. will be carried out, A large
attendance is expected.
Yesterday afternoon at her home
on East Main street Mrs. NJ. Forty
entertained about sixty ladies at
very delightful afternoon party. A
lively guessing contest and several
other pretty pastimes made up sew
eral hours of sincere enjoyment. The
luncheon was beautifully served.
Mrs. Forty is a splendid hostess.
This morning at six o'clock, accord
ing to the weather bureau, the tenn
perature was down to IL degrees,
consequently the coolest morning
yet. The precipitation during the
past twenty-four hours was .0S. The
maximum temperature yesterday was
81 degrees. Forecast for western
Colorado for the SO hours ending at
six o'clock Sunday evening announces
that 1t will be fair tonight and Sun
day.
Miss Eugene Kelly has resigned
her position as bookkeeper for the
plumbing firm of Garrison and Flet-
stenographer with the Grand Valley
National bank. She will assume the
duties of her new position on Mon
day morning. Miss Kelly has been
connected with the plumbing firm for
nearly three years and the announce
ment that she has given up her po-
sition there will be received with re
gret by the firms patrons.
There was fair sized audience out
last night at the Auditorium to wit
ness the performance of "Only a
Shop Girl given by w. w. Bittner
the well known actor, and his COM
pany. The company contained
number of very capable people and
on the whole the performance was
pleasing to the audience. only a
Shop Girl" is one or those sensation
al melo-dramas, full of thrilling sit
uations and a goodly sprinlSling of
heart comedy along with fair share
of pathos The young lady who took
the title role. the shop girl. was very
good, and perhaps did better work
than any other member of the cast.
The next attraction at the Auditor
ium will be Cosgrove's Famous Or
ehestra on Tuesday night
The score in the game between the
Montrose high school football team
played at Montrose Thanksgiving day,
was IL to 0 instead of II to 0, as
stated yesterday AS a result of this
victory over Montrose the Indian
team holds the Wetern Slope cham
pionship, as Montrose held that hon
or prior to the defeat she suffered at
the hands of the Indians Thursday.
Naturally the boys at the Indian
school are highly elated. The team
has a splendid record for the sea
son hat has just closed. Supt Bur
| son that has just closed. Supt. Bur
rose was clean throughout and there
was no dissatisfaction in the ranks
of either side at the conclusion of the
game.
This afternoon the annual meet
ing of the stockholders of the Grand
Valley Irrigation company is being
held at the county court house. The
! eight hundred members of the assoc
iation are represented in person or by
proxy at the meeting, the attendance
being very large. The annual re
ports have to be made at the meeting
. and then the annual election OF the
officers will be held, president sec
! retary-treasurer, and board OF III
? rectors are to be elected for the new
: wear. The affairs of the association
5 are in the best of condition accordlne
E to the reports of the various officials
r. p. Davie, president of the Yves
tern Sugar G. Land company speaks
of the last years beet crop and th'
prospect for next year. In answe
to the inquiry as to why some held
were better than others, Mr.. Davi'
said, ut is due in many instance
to too late planting and a bligh
which has been general in the ives
tern country this year being the mos
pronounced at Lehi. Utah, where IN
crop is over $4,000 tons short. IN
y fields which were not affected bein
usually those planted early and we
y MANFRED Mr.. Davie stated that tn
e Lehi factory had been in successfu
operation for fourteen years and thi
: was the first year of bad blight. a
z to the future Mr.. Davie was decided
" optomistic, he said the farmer
9 we're at least learning to apprcciGt
! tne value of manure and were real''
: ins ttst beets well attende u wcr
a safe ard sure money malsor - on
e safe and sure money malser.--D
Laborer.