The daily sentinel., 1907-07-03

The celebration of the Fourth real
" increases in extent and elaborate
ness as the years advance and to-
morrow will see another recurrence
of the calling to memory of the
signing of the immortal declaration.
Grand Junction will have no big
celebration tomorrow but neverthe-
less the day will be generally observ-
ed and there should be nobody in
Grand Junction who will not know
what the day is and what it means.
There will be a general suspension
Of business. The banks, the public Of
fees, the post office, the barber
shops. many of the dry goods stores,
all of the grocery houses and other
business houses of various KINDS,
will be closed all day.
No paper will be issued from the
Sentinel office. This paper has never
issued an edition on July fourth.
Fruita, the little city of the low
er valley, will have the biggest cele-
bration to be pulled off in Mesa coun-
ty, and several hundred Grand June
ton people will be in attendance. A
fine program of events has been ar
ranged and the genuine, never fail
ing hospitality of the people of the
enterprising town is too well known
to call forth comment.
The Grand Junction base ball
team will go to Fruita tomorrow
morning to play the Fruita Giants
in the afternoon as one of the big
events of the Fruita celebration.
Collbran, the growing and enter
prising village of the Plateau Val
ley, is also planning to entertain
several thousand peaople tomorrow.
The celebration there will be well
worth going far to attend. The Plat
eau valley is one of the finest and
prettiest sections of Colohtdo and
an ideal place to make a visit in the
summer.
Many Grand Junctionites will go
to Collbran. more would go If the trip
was not a hard one.
The band of the Teller Indian
school went to Collbran today to
furnish music tomorrow for the cele-
bration there.
Palisade will have nothing doing
tomorrow. Her people will spend
the day at other towns where cele-
brations will be held.
Low rates as usual prevail on all
railroads, consequently many peo-
pie will make the trip to distant
towns and cities.
A great many picnic parties have
been organized in the city, espec-
tally among the young people, and
the canons near the city will be
among the centers Of attraction to-
morrow.
An old fashioned celebration Will
be held at Frultvale, three miles
east of the city tomorrow to be par
ticipated in by the people of that sec
tion.
The Palisade base ball team will
cross bats tomorrow with the Rifle
base ball team, at Rifle.
The small boy and the big cannon
cracker will be greatly in evidence in
Grand Junction tomorrow. Never
were such extensive stocks of fire
works carried in the city as are being
carried this year. From early dawn
until late at night the sound of eX-
plosions, the whir of fiery zig-zags.
the flash of sky-rockets, will be heard
and seen in the old town.
There of course will be n number
of accidents but 1t is to be hoped
that none will prove serious or fatal.
Grand Junction has been fortunate
along this line, however for it has
been many years since there was a
| serious accident in the city on July
4th.
Let the small boy and the big boy,
and the little and big girl too, have
all the fun they possibly can have
tomorrow. Teach them though, If
1t is in your province, the true mean
ing of the natal day of their country.
Don't let them give in sincerity the
same meaning to the day that the lit
tie girl at Christmas time did when
she said, while contemplating her
Christmas gifts and thinking over the
celebrations yet to come, "Well which
| is next, rabbits or fireworks" Too
many children know the day only
as a day of noise and fireworks.
! Remember the Fourth and keeT
its meaning clear.