The daily sentinel., 1906-08-16
Ewen H. selbach. Of crlpple cree

Ewell H. selbach, of Cripple creek
is in town today.
There were over co guests at the
Grand hotel yesterday.
]. w. Zimmerman, of Glenwood
Springs, is in the city today.
L. S. Colfeld, a well known Pa
onia citizen. is in town today.
Ray ]. Rutt, came down last night
from Collbran on a short business
trip.
Mrs. l. n. Kirk returned yester-
dcy from Denver where she has been
visiting her daughter.
A. Rathbone, of Red Oak, Iowa,
and Maria F. Snyder, of Eldora, Ia,
arrived in the city yesterday.
Transfers wanted to haul lumber
from Rice's mill on Pinon Mesa. $5
per NJ. Apply to P. A. Rice.
Mrs. Il. c. Lawrence and Mrs. ].
r. Whipp, of Gunnison, are guests
of Grand Junction friends today.
c. C. Compton, the travelling
freight agent of the Denver and Rio
Grande in this district, is in town to-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel G. McMullin
will entertain friends at a dinner
party this evening at their home on
Grand avenue.
Miss Mayme F. Walsh, of New
York City, and Miss Emma Downs
Cobb, of Colorado Springs, are visit
ing in the city.
E. S. Buchtel, representative of
the Carter Rice and Carpenter Paper
company. is in the city today calling
upon his patrons.
Charles ]. Joyce, James K. Joyce,
and Miss Nellie Joyce, of Howell.
Ind. are spending few days in the
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The city's leading liyerymen, Bar
ton G. Plat Best service. Prompt
attention to all orders, excellent rigs
and good horses. Barn, Fifth and
Colorado.
There is a great demand for labor
ers at Montrose on the tunnel and for
oiher fields of work and the local
employment agencies are shipping
men from here every few days.
More people from Grand juno
tion will take in the San Juan excurs-
ion to Salt Lake City. this year. than
ever before. About three hundred
Grand junction people will make the
trip, leaving the city on the special
tonight.
DR.. L. f. Mollln, a prominent ply
sician and n long time citizen of
Aspen died on Tuesday night. He
was well known to quite a number of
Grand Junction people. He has been
i'll long time, He was 5S years
of age.
Judge w. #. James and daughter,
Miss Nellie, of st. Joe, Missouri, are
the guests of Rev. James f. Weir and
family this week. They will visit
Silverton and Delta and other points
in the state. Judge James and
daughter are old time friends of
Rev. Weir and family.
The Yeomen are making great
preparations for their entertainment
tonight at I. o. o. f. hall. Each
member is entitled to invite two
friends eligible to membership. Mr..
Van Wrinkle. the state manager who
is to address the meeting tonight is
well up in the front rank as n speak
er.
The work of improving the route
of the old narrow guage still contin-
ues. The broad guage trains are
making good time and all the trains
are running pretty well on schedule
time each day. Traffic over the mar
row guage is very heavy these days
and seems to be growing heavier from
week to week
The work of invoicing the large
stock of dry goods of the LayNat-
finger Mercantile company. recently
sold. is about completed and a large
number of improvements are now be
ing made in the arrangement of the
store and the immense stock. Paper
hangers and painters are also at work
in the building. The store has not
vet been opened for business but will
be opened under the new manage
ment in a few days.
Grand Junction is going right
along with its work of getting noun
tain water. and the council has al
ready engaged the engineers. who
are from Salt Lake City, giving them.
according to the Sentinel. four per
cent of the actual cost of construction
of the system Should no adverse
reports bob up, the supply will be
taken from Hannah creek. which
comes down off Grand Mesa. running
into the Gunnison above Whitewater
The amount of bonds voted was
S30O. 900. and as the distance from
which the water is to be brought is
about twenty miles, the amount will
be ample for the needs. The one
drawback of all the agricultural
towns on this side of the range. is
lack of pure water for domestic pur-
poses. But as time advances and
property becomes valuable the noun
tain water is brought in. Grand
Junction is about the last to vote to
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