The daily sentinel., 1906-06-18
STRAWBERRY DAY.
numbers Spend Over Sunday
At Soiorado's Spa. A Great
success for Everybody.


ho,5i Inc people Of Glenwood Springs
NJ 1e'liele that this last Strawberry dav
nave ever held. '9'u' '"eS
vann rne decorations for the occasion
aj 80 very elaborate and beautiful
much favorable comment anu
Al the Glenwood hotel corpa,. ,,,.1
at the Intersection OF All fba n,,,,ni -
pal streets there had been carris,, "a '.ei- n,i.
scheme Of decoration. which nisSt
serve for future decoration in -
CITY DUNG the period of the Mesa
County fair, From the pendant a.
tflc light in the center Of tbe stra,t
10 the four corners We're festoons ~
7 paper, fastened to long ropes concasi
IHs Narlcolored electric bulbs which
Wnen Illuminated presented beauti.
iul eHeets. In the center of the
squares running across the streets
were the nags of the nations.
u Up and down the business sectfon
every building almost was fully dec.
GRATED with the prevailing strawebrrv
colois and national emblems.
strawberries were served as is
the custom and this was an impor-
taht feature. But the great feature
oI an events occurring at Glenwood
I springs is the annual free bath TO
VISITORS. Thousands disported them.
serves IN the waters OF the great pool
rom early morning, until notice was
gwen 10 clear the pool of all bathers
BESIDES these features there were
pan games. roping contests al the
Ialr grounds and other features. 10
make attractive the day. Hospitality
was present everywhere and on every
hand.
IT can be said without any fear of
contradiction that Mesa county sent
the largest delegation of visitors to
the strawberry day event. of any
olher section of the Western slope
NO less than eight hundred pcoplcI
went from Grand Junction. Fruita.
Palisades and DeBeques besides other
country districts contiguous to these
towns. Mesa county was ever pres
ent, as represented by its people on
every street and everywhere in that
town Saturday. Palisades alone sent
great delegation. And what is
more they spent their money freely
and made the event their own, in a
manner.
To enumerate all the features Of
the day or the people from here
WOULD be almost impossible. Every
profession, every trade, every mer-
camille house was represented by one
or more.
The Grand Junction band PLAYED
some very pleasing music. considering
the short time they have had to prac
tice. Their playing was spoken of
In most favorable terms. While large
numbers of visitors returned TO this
city Saturday night. many remained
over Sunday and that number was
augmented from here Sunday morn
ing by no less than a hundred more
visitors, who went up to enjoy the
day The weather during the time of
the celebration was all that could be
desired by anyone and the bathing
was extraordinarily good.
The Fair association of this coun-
ty distributed 1900 cards, calling at
tention to the fact that this year the
Fair in this city would be the creates
event ever held in Mesa county. Sec
retary Chapman of the executive
board had this feature in charge.
1t would have been well could
every person from Mesa county worn
a badge with the name and date of
the Fair printed thereon. Aspen
adopted this means of advertising her
great Fourth of July celebration,
each citizen of Pitkin county wearing
a badge to that effect.
It is hardly possible that Glenwood
Springs can have any possible show
to make complaint that Grand juno
tiou and Mesa county did not do their
share toward contributing to the sue
cess of their great fete day.