The daily sentinel., 1906-02-26

There was a meeting of the c. A
4. Post Saturday night At odd Eel
lows hall.
II may be Banner day. or a Ban
ner thing, but whatever it is, it Will
be Banner
Delta county is arranging for a
big county fair to be held on Sept
20, p, and % at Hotchkiss.
j. II. Heron has entered upon his
work as manager of the real estate
department of the Horace T. DeLong
agency.
Delta county is to have new
town. II is TO be called Wayne and
Will he located on the famous mesa
called "Redlands."
All lovers of dancing should be out
tomorrow night to enjoy the farewell
dance of the Currie dancing school
at the Auditorium.
Tomorrow night the farewell ball
of the Cuirie dancing class will be
given. \ good time for all who at
tend Fine music.
The big auction sale conducted
Saturday by the Mesa County Auc-
tion company was highly successful.
Auctions will be conducted every few
weeks by the company.
Much interest is being taken in the
old Song Concert to be given at the
and the singing of the grand old bal
lads viii be enjoyed ny a large aud
ience
Tomorrow afternoon the Woman :
Club Will meet at the home of Mrs
James l. Hamilton. corner of Eighth
Street and White avenue. The
Cause of Poverty" Will be the sub
iect for discussion. A full attend
ance of the members means an inter
esting and profitable session.
Engineer Schwalbach. James H.
Smith and Contractor Lumsden We're
here on Wednesday looking over the
new ditch proposition in the interests
of the Mesa County National Bank
IL is understood that this bank is
ready TO take up large part, or even
all Of the bond issue if conditions
are satisfactory Palisade Tribune
j. II. Sayles a prominent citizen
OF Palisade. who is spending the
winter in California. is hitting the
much ch-advertised undoubtedly over
rated resources. climate and bust
ness conditions of that state some aw-
full blows in letters that he is writ
ing for publication in the Palisate
Tribune. Mr.. Sayles is at Santa
Monica.
A petition is being circulated
among the Clifton postofIice patrons
asking that Mrs. j. w. Griffith be
appointed as postmistress at Clifton
to succeed Judge Mann who will give
mp the Office AS he has sold his store
at Clifton. Mrs Grihith was employ
ed as postmistress several years at
a point on the eastern slope. The pc
tition is being generally signed.
Rodney Boone. one of the promin-
ent citizens of the Plateau valley,
to this valley will leave next Satur-
day night for New York City to make
his home. He has disposed of n
large portion of his interests in the
Plateau valley. Mr. Boone's Grand
Junction friends viii regret his de
parture from the county.
Saturday night the crowds attract
ed by the concluding sale of the auc-
tion at the Sherman w. Moody Jewel
ry house for the past two weeks, were
immense and scores of people We're
unable to get into the store. the
crowd was so large The $500
punch bawl given away Saturday
night was won by DR.. G.. r. Linsay
The series of sales were highly salts
factory and successful.
The Grand County Advocate Is
strongly urging the organization OF
a new political party in Colorado to
be known as the Roosevelt Party"
to be made up of Roosevelt Repub-
licans and Roosevelt Democrats. A
call for the first meeting M those
Interested or leading in the move
ment will be issued in few days.
II Is proposed to have a complete set
of nominations made by the new
party for the next campaign, for all
the state Offices.
Up to this time the prospects for
an enormous fruit crop were never
better. And TOO IL looks MS though
our peaches would be nearly three
weeks earlier than last year. If such
Is the case. they win go in ahead of
Michigan and New York and get fine
prices even though those two states
should have big crop a good
crop and fine prices next year will
mean that flrst-class bearing orchards
viii he held at 500 an acre. and
raw land near Palisade viii be held
at $500 per acre.-Palisade Tribune.
The mountain water question
seems to be the leading question at
Palisade as well as at Grand Junction
{ The plan OF securing water from the
Walker springs under the rim rock
OF Grand Mesa has practically been
abandoned To get the supply from
Rapid creek is now the determine
Z tion Of the city council Of Palisade.
I However there are three or four
claimants to Rapid creek water with
priority right OF LA cubic feet to
the John Hoover ranch. The coun-
I ell has taken steps todard institutine
condemnation proceedings
! saturday at Mesa. a big boosters
/ convention was held for'the purpose
of discussing plans to advertise eN-
tensively the Plateau valley and to
give direct announcement to the pro
posed electric railway. The meeting
was largely attended and was mark
ed with great enthusiasm. Many ad-
dresses by prominent citizens of that
section and number of gentlemen
from outside the valley. The meet
ing opened in the forenoon and was
in session until a late hour in the
afternoon There was also meeting
Of stockgrowers in the afternoon
Boosters convention was n great big
success from all accounts.
John r. Moore. manager Of tho
Grand Junction Fruit Growers as
sociation and DR.. +, r. Smith, sec
ff IA.