The daily sentinel., 1908-12-30
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

w. w. Chandler returned last
night from a business visit of two
days duration in Palisade.
Mrs. Werner b. Lee is pleasantly
entertaining the girls home from
college" this afternoon at the Lee
home on Grand avenue.
Many of the merchants have com
pleted taeir invoices and inventories
for the year. Ma, y others, having
started later, are lust getting well
under way.
1t is not too late yet TO get Il re
port in The Sentinels summary. We
have so arranged IL that reports can
be received at the office as late as
noon Thursday.
Thomas A. Hyder. member of the
lower branch of the city council in
Denver. visited friends in town today
while on his way to Grand Junction.
l-Glenwood Avalanche.
| Mrs. Frank Irving, who has been
the guest of her mother, Mrs. Hun,
for the past few days, left yesterday
| morning for Grand Valley, where
Mr.. Irving has a valuable fruit farm
Aspen Democrat.
Stricken with typhoid fever, Mrs.
o. b. Fleming. teacher in the school
| =
after an illness of but short duration.
Mrs. Fleming was the wife OF Prof.
o. B. Fleming, also connected with
the Grand Valley school as principal.
Dent Lloyd. the five-months-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Lon Lloyd. was
buried this afternoon. The services
were held at the home at % Rood
avenue Interment at Orchard Mesa
cemetery in charge of Undertaken
Krohn. The child died late yesterday
afternoon. The father is a well known
barber employed in the City Barber
shop.
The resources of the several BANKS
| in Colorado outside of the nation =
banks amounts to S32, SO. .301.57. an
| increase since July l . of this year
of $2,702, ,15S.41. These are the fig
ures as shown by the report of State
Bank Commissioner Beatty. which
was issued yesterday. The report
shows that the average reserve in
the banks of the state under his con
/ troll is 4l.6 per cent.
1t has been remarked that the week
has been duller socially than any
New Years Week the city has eXper-
fenced III several years. There are
several large functions for the week
and "A number of smaller parties and
, entertainments but not SO numerous
are the affairs of this nature this year
as they have been ON several preced-
ing years. Still it is a very lively
week in social circles after all.
Word has been received iron
Grand junction that Engineer oven
Fitzpatrick shot himself dead on
Christmas day Mr.. Fitzpatrick vas
well known in Salida and had manS
friends. Some time ago he Slipped
from his engine and injured his knee
and was here in the hospital fol
more than a month. Although h
had returned to his run he had losl
money. and it is thought he becam,
so Respondent that he temporaril,
lost his mind and shot himself Mr.
Fitzpatrick's family live in Cimar
| ron. His sister, Mrs. James Grout
lived in Salida for many years. Sail
da Mail.
a realistic picture OF life in the
: far. west will be the Offering at tn,
J Park opera house, Wednesday. Dec
80 under the title of The Flamin,
Arrow" The play is not, as nigh
naturally be expected. a blood ant
thunder production, Astounding il
gunshots and hair-raising epi
sodes. unpleasant to the audience
but is a faithful picture of life oil
the frontier and in one of the famou
government posts. II tells IA beautiful
love story, is replete with thrillin
scenes, and its characters are al
taken from living prototypes. true I
character and costume. AS The OIL
Homestead is typical of the oil
east, so is The Flaming Arrow q
the far west.