The daily sentinel., 1906-01-08


time Saturday evening.
Ed. NJ. Hardy. the under sheriff,
leaves tomorrow night for Salt Lake
City for several days visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Clark left
Saturday night for Denver to witness
the performance of "Ben-Hur.''
The Modern Woodmen of America
meet at eight O'Clock Tuesday even
ing at Elks hall. A full attendance
is desired.
The smelter closed down Friday,
temporarily until some necessary re-
pairs are made. The big plant will
be put in operation again in a short
time.
Fred Lowenstien has purchased
twent acres of land near Fruita from
William Swartz The Horace r. De
Long real estate agency closed up the
deal today.
Six candidates are to be initiated
this evening at the meeting of the
Elks. The session promises to be one
of the busiest the lodge has had in
quite while. The session will prob
ably end with a social hour A full
attendance will no doubt mark the
session.
Louis Schmidt, the well known
hardware man. has been dangerously
i'll for several days. On Thursday
and Friday his condition was very
grave but there was a noticeable inn
provement Saturday and he is now
growing betteg. Mr.. Schmidt was
suffering from water on the lungs.
Nearly $4,000 was spent in build
ing improvements in the growing and
prosperous city of Fruita, the metrop
oils of the lower valley dur
ing the past year. This is in
deed good showing. Many hand
some new business houses were erect
ed during the year and many more
will be erected this year which prom
ises TO be the best year in the his
tory of Fruita.
Some time during Saturday night
a water pipe bursted at the Christian
church and Sunday morning it was
found that the basement of the
church was flooded, being partially
filled with water. The furnace was
partially-submerged and as it was inn
possible to heat the building under
the circumstances no Sunday school
or morning service was held. Dur
ing the day the water was taken ont,
repairs made, the furnace started and
services were held as usual in the
evening.
Tonight the Wolfe Stock company,
the best repertoire company that has
visited Grand Junction in good
long time, will open a weeks engage
ment at the Park opera house and 1t
is safe to predict that the engagement
will be a successful one. as Mr.. Wolfe
the manager and owner of the COM
pany is well known and very popular
here. and the amusement lovers of
Grand Junction know that he has al
ways been identified with the very
best of repertoire productions. There
has been a large sale of seats for the
opening attraction, Sowing the
Wind" and the audience will be a
big one.
C. G. Smith. OF Palisade. Colorado.
the land of the luscious peach, has
put part of his 1905 earnings in a
place where he will reap a good re-
! turn in automobile service. Through
Charles Biz he bought a 1906 Buick
model &c" touring car, and went the
limit in equipment. This car is very
I little known in this territory, but
1 close observers of automobile con-
strnction will surely become deeply
/ impressed with its merits when once
/ they come investigating. The com
I pany is manufacturing a line, all high
power. from two to four-cylinder cars,
ranging from $1,000 to $500
Auto News in Denver Saturday Sun.
There seems to be every assurance
that the broadguage from Grand
Junction to Ouray will be an accom-
plished fact during the coming sum
mer. and that we shall be shipping ore
/ in standard cars in the early fall.
I Possibly the work will be done be-
I fore July /, in which event. the tour
list business to ouray ought to be
| largely augmented. The information
has been given from the Denver Of
fees where they state that this year
will surely see the breadguage in
ouray. l. II. Luke, superintendent
of this division. spend Thursday in
/ Paonia and is of the firm belief that
this branch will be standardized next
year, says the Paonia Booster. This
seems to have been fully determined
by the D. &. r. G. who appreciate our
/ growing needs. Statistics of pres
ent business and future prospects
have been considered carefully by
them and upon this basis a broad
guage has evidently been determined
on for the ouray and Paonia por-
lions of the road. We shall expect
to see work begin early in the spring.
-ouray Herald.