The daily sentinel., 1907-05-25
Palisade Owns
the Town
Three Hundred People Here From
Peach City and 100 FroH
Fruita.

1t is truly "PaIisade Day" in Grand
Junction and we might say rul..i
Day too. Ii would seem that near near
/ " all of the citizens OF each OF thyse
thriving little cities are spending the
day here.
This morning shortly before eleven
O'Clock n special train came IN from
E'ruita bringing about one hunuIeu
and fifty men, women ana cIllIu =; u;
along with Fruita's crack base bail
About HIS o'clock the big spec
iaI train from Palisade came into the
union depot and in IA few moments u
great army of people were wendinS
their way up into the business dist
riots and making fine showing as
they marched along the streets, IN
fact the parade that passed up Maln
street this morning was the Inest
looking procession seen mere III iii"ns
First came the handsome trap in
which were seated Mayor q. h. Scrog
gins of Palisade. John. ID. Reeder
and ]. W. Richards, two other prom
inent Palisadians, and Mayor j. X
Wentworth of this city
Behind the carriage came the Pail
SADIE cornet band and on every hanu
admiring remarks were heaTd from
the people who have made the
which she should be proud and rev
towns several times larger than the
peach city, in the state, can boast OF
a stronger and finer appearing musl-
of 22 pieces and the boys wear ele-
giant uniforms, trimmed in gold. The
class of music they dispersed as tney
marched along spoke highly OF the
ability of the organization
Then came the Palisade base ball
team THE white sox of the Peach
city" they two were in base ball uni
form and were heartily cheered.
Following the base ball team came
a portion of the finest citizenship OF
Colorado, the residents of one of the
greatest fruit centers in the world:
the people who made "the home of
home of the peach" the people who
for enterprise and boosting qualities
are not to be eXcelled in all the west
Three hundred men and women of
Palisade. Such an army of boosters
and substantial citizens. The great
er portion of the crowd were on foot
although many of the well known
fruit growers had driven down in
buggies or automobiles and were in
the line of parade.
The procession extended a distance
of about three blocks and all along
the line was greeted heartily.
Col. C. c. Bower was the marshal
of the day and directed the parade
Palisade is determined to prove to
the world that she has peaches and
plenty of them this lean year" and
every man, woman and child in that
parade was a walking demonstration
of this fact. Each person wore clus-
ter of well grown green peaches and
none that loked upon these living
badges of fruit could any longer say
that Palisade had no peaches this
year. Handsome ribbon badges bear
ing the words "Palisade Day, Grand
Junction" "Palisade. the Home of
the Peach" were conspicuous.
A great many additional Palisad-
ians came to the city on the regular
noon train, swelling the number of
Paiisade people here to about 400:
Up until the hour when the big
doings were to begin at the fair
grounds the congental and heartily
welcomed visitors from the two lit
tie cities thronged the streets and
visited the business houses. They
received the "glad hand" everywhere
May the fine citizens from the lower
and the upper valley come again
Grand Junction would like to see
them come in big punches like they
came today real often.
There was only one thing to maI
the completeness of the day the
threatening cloudy weather and oc-
casional showers. Such an occasion
deserves ideal weather.
The program at the fair grounds
lopened at one o'clock when the Pali-
sade and Fruita baseball teams took
the field
/ game and each and every one of the
events was hugely enjoyed.
The entries to all the racing events
were restricted to Palisade, the race
program was strictly a Palisade pro
/ gram.
The whole affair was under the aus
pices of the Gentleman's Driving club
of Palisade, with John d. Reeder
Il. w. Jordan, j. w. Richards and
Col. C. c. Bowers and other promin
ent citizens in charge.