The daily sentinel., 1906-09-01
JOLLlEST OF TIMES

|
! special train carrying the big dele
CATION of the members of Book Cliff
! Camp Woodmen of the World, and
their friends, arrived home from
Delta. bringing in tired but happy
crowd of men, women and children.
Today everybody who made the
| trip speaks in the same strain of the
merry time had in the enterprising
and thriving little city up in the mar
row guage country. All declare
that the great crowds that were in
| Delta yesterday made up a multitude
that was good natured, jolly and rep
resentative of the best citizenship of
western Colorado.
The special train reached Delta
yesterday shortly after ten o'clock,
/ The hundred of more Woodmen, the
| forty members of the Apple Blossom
circle, Women of Woodcraft, formed
at once in marching line and headed
| by the handsome uniformed Grand
| Junction band marched up Main
street in Delta. The streets were
thronged with people and as the
Grand Junction delegations marched
along they were given a decided ova-
tion. With their gayly bedecked
! parasols, their flaring banners and
| flags the home people certainly made
| good showing. Past Counselor
Commander Henry Il. Rhone headed
the line carrying the battle AK
whats the Matter with Grand juno
tion," yelled the crowds on the side
walks. she's all right" was the res
ponse from the Grand Junction peo-
pie.
The general parade of all the Wis
iting delegations was splendid pro-
cession and was very attractive.
The ranks broke about eleven o.
/ clock and 10 rrptUda thara1 round
the handsomely decorated speakers
stand on Main street. Judge Fred
NJ. Dickerson. of Delta, delivered a
stirring and enthusiastic address of
welcome to the visitors. Mayor l.
| n Bunting. of Grand Junction, made
| the response and delivered n strong
patriotic address. Senator DeLong,
| of this city, was then introduced and
made splendid talk along the lines
of patriotism and fraternalfsm. The
addresses of Mayor Bunting and Sen
ator DeLong We're inspiring and
touched a popular chord in the vast
crowd
The afternoon was devoted to
chopping and sewing contests and
various other amusements. Some
remarkable records were made in the
chopping and saving contests. Logs
a foot and a half thick were sawed
All OuEl ny blE uuohg ltllONA III .
seconds.
In the afternoon the Telluride and
Glenwood Springs base ball teams
crossed bats before large crowd.
The Telluride people won out on a
score of to 8. The game was not a
very fast one.
The Night Pageant was a glor-
ious success, and again the Grand
Junction crowd made a big nit. The
MI a
each of the large ball rooms was
crowded to overlooking with dancers.
At the same time two enthusiastic
meetings We're held in different halls,
one by the Women of Woodcraft and
the other by the Woodmen.
The Grand Junction people left
Delta about 11:30 for home and be-
fore leaving three rousing cheers
were given for Delta. Montrose, Pa
onia and other towns.
Delta was in gala attire for the log
rolling. An immense arch on Main
street bore the words, welcome
Woodmen" and when lighted up at
night was very beautiful. The bust
ness houses were all decorated and
in the show windows along the busi-
ness streets We're displays indicative
of the fraternal order then in pos
session of the town. Logs. manets,
| Itililt dAtSt tltss were every NnbTe 10
| be seen. The streets were very
striking and pretty in their decora-
tions.
At the foot of the telephone poles
on Main street We're piled immense
heaps of fine summer apples. pro-
ducts of Delta county. and signs an
uounced that these apples were free
to ALL
, The kangaroo court was howl
ing success and many defendant got
n slice of injustice. Attorney Henry
r. Rhone of this city presided over
the court for while and he put it
on the boys pretty heavily
Other amusements too numerous
to mention were provided for the Wis
itors entertainment Delta certain
ly did herself proud. She entertain
ed royalty and most successfully. The
committees in charge are to be con-
graduated upon the splendid success
; of the log rolling. The crowds were
great, about 1000 visitors were in
) Deta yesterday. Many special trains
! We're run. II was the most success
full log rolling ever held on the west
ern slope in the opinion of many.
The Grand junction camp captur
ed the prize offered for the camp
having the largest delegation in line
) in the parade.
The Mesa county fair was widely
/ advertised at the log rolling by Sec
; retary Chapman who was there and
J also by the Book Cliff Woodmen. One
of the yells the boys used in the par
ade was ms wollows:
We are peaches,
So are you,
5 Who, who. who.
Where. where where,
At Grand Junction fair"
At the big netting aoihoftc z
At the big business meeting of the
Woodmen in the evening Henry h.
Rhone, extended an invitation to Del.
ta and the Delta county people to
como to Grand Junction to the fair.
5 Much advertising matter was also
distributed
The log rolling was alright. Delta
is alright and everybody had a CAV