The daily sentinel., 1906-12-22
LOCAL NEWS

C. F. Pease is down from Montrose.
There was a busy session of the
Eagles last evening.
All Masks must be raised at the
door Christmas night.
c. D. Smith & Co, for holiday gifts
New goods and big values.
j. {. Landers of Delta, is here to-
day on a short business trip.
Are you going to try for the prize
in the cake walk Christmas night.
Mrs. John n. Carr. of DeBeque is
spending the day in Grand Junction.
Mrs. H. E. Perkins. of Delta. is the
guest OF friends in Grand Junction
A large crowd is enjoying the mat
nee dance this afternoon at the
Auditorium.
Miss Nellie Weir left yesterday
afternoon for Colorado Springs TO
spend the holidays with her sister.
Miss May Weir.
/ J. H, Little and wife. of Salida and
James Little and wife of Lincoln. Neb
raska are here today for a short Wis
IL while en- route from the west.
The largest congregations that
ever gathered at the Methodist
church will. probably hear Chancellor
| Buchtel tomorrow morning and even
ing.
Maude Fealy, in The Illusions of
/ Beatrice" and George AIDES Sultan
of Sulu," are Manager Haskel's
/ Christmas offerings at the Park opera
house.
A dispatch from Tonapah states
that James j. Jeffries will referee the
Gans-Herman battle on New Years
day He Will be given $1,000 and
expenses.
The revival at the Christian church
will close tomorrow night after be-
ing in progress nearly two months.
There have been over one hundred
conversions.
Another pretty calendar that has
made its appearance in the city this
week is that issued by J.E. Mckenzie,
the well known plumber, 1t is ex-
tremely handsome and Will ornament
many homes.
James ]. Jeffries, the heavyweight
champion of the world, who has
never been beaten, declares that un-
der no consideration will he meet
! johnson or any other colored man. if
! decides to re-enter the ring.
There have been several applica-
tions for tn position of night marshal
to succeed c. c. O'Neil, recently elect
ed as city marshal filed with the
council during the past two days
Others are yet to be filed.
The announcement made in the SEN
tinel last night of the death of Mrs.
Sarah j. Connely at her home in
Pennsylvania, was received with
sorrow by the many old time friends
of the deceased in Grand Junction.
Several thousand votes were cast
today in the piano contest which clos
es on Monday afternoon. 1t is i'm
possible to tell which contestant is
leading just now but II seems as If
the fight is between the Salvation
army and the Lowell school.
IT is reported that the foundations
being put in the river at Fruita for
the new bridge to rest upon are
causing a ripple in the water so
strong that the ferry boat cannot op-
crate across the river at its old To-
cation. 1t will have to be moved
to another point
George Crosby, who was burned
out last Friday evening, is now be-
ing cared for at the w. A. Merriell
home. He continues very low with
very little sign of Improvement Mrs.
Crosby has withstood the shock. oc-
casioned by the burning of their home
very well.-Fruita Telegram.
An electric lighting plant is what
the enterprising little city of Fruita
is now after. The town council is
getting busy along this line and is
having estimates made as to the cost
of installing a municipal system, the
power to be afforded by the pipe line
as it comes down a cliff about n mile
south of the Grand River.
The announcement by the Sentinel
yesterday of the fact that s. 400, 900
will be paid the fruit growers of Mesa
county this season, was an announce
ment of startling Importance. Think
of it, fruit crop worth half a mil
lion dollars more than the great crop
of last year! Twenty-three hundred
cars of fruit, the total shipments.
would make a single train over 20
miles in length
The performance last night of
"Nettie, the News Girl" was made
creditable. The young lady who takes
the leading role is very pretty and
is one of the best portrayers of juve-
nile characters seen in the city in
long time. She is Miss Isabelle Lowe.
Her work was splendid and she was
enthusiastically applauded from time
to time She had very fair support.
The play is deliberately staged. The
audience was large and thoroughly
enjoyed the show.
The exclusive announcement in the
Sentinel yesterday of the extent of the
Mesa county fruit crop for the year
1906. the value and extent of the
sugar beet crop and figures on the
wheat crop and live stock increase for
the year, was received with intense
satisfaction throughout the city. Quite
number of extra copies of the Sen
tinel containing these new and i'm
portant facts on the years prosperity
have been sold today. The other
sheet will give these figures today
or some other day or else cry about
missing them in the usual fashion.
The Olathe Criterion is getting red
in the face, declares the Fruita Tele-
gram. yelling about a couple of sugar
beets that weight about II or 90
pounds each and even went so far as
to send to Denver and have cuts made
of these little beets. Fruita has the
world beat on the size and weight
of individual beets, 26 1-2 and 80
pounds are our best and so far no one
has DISPUTED our claim to the worlds