The daily sentinel., 1909-09-03
....Local Euents...

II. Gould Is down from Delta on
business this afternoon.
Grace Marshall. of Delta, is a vis-
itor in the city today.
r. p. Chilion and wife of Magazine,
Ark, are visitors in the city.
Tonight booster meeting is to be
held on Orchard Mesa.
Mr. and Mrs. A r. Sampliner have
returned from their visit in Denver.
Mrs. Nellie Near. of Salt Lake. is a
new arrival in the city and is guest
of friends.
E. X. Mills is visiting friends and
relatives in the city this afternoon
from Hampton. Neb.
Mrs X. Posse and daughter of Chi
cago. are stopping off in the city a
few days en- route TO the coast
Margaret McGowan, of Canon City.
a popular young lady of that city. is
visiting friends in Grand junction
this week
Mrs. St Clair Shaw is pleasant
visitor in Grand Junction this week
en- route from Cincinnati. o, TO the
coast
Jas. d. Gray. of Des Moines. la.
is spending few days in the Grand
valley visiting with friends and rela-
tives.
looking over land and orchards in
the valley this week with a view TO
locating
A decree of divorce was granted
this afternoon in the county court in
the case of Myrtle Moore VS. William
NJ. Moore
Lowell Smith. of the Longmont
Ledger, is pleasant visitor here to-
day. He is an old time friend OF
Secretary Mahony, of the Chamb ber
of Commerce
Miss Celia Gormley. one of the |
well known school teachers of the |
local schools has returned from her
vacation spent in Columbus. Ohio, |
ready to resume her duties. She re-
ports very pleasant trip.
Late last evening the long delayed |
trains from the west came into the |
city, being the first trains in for sixty |
hours. The tracks were opened at
both ends of the system last night
and today the regular schedules are
being fairly well maintained.
A petition in answer to the petit
tion in Intervention. filed lately by
Charles and Blaine Kitzmiller, was
fled in the county court this after
noon by j. W. Hugus and Arthur
Henges. II arises from the recent lit
igation concerning the ownership of
an automobile
II is reported that the Labor Day
committee having in charge the work
of getting the business men to close
their places of business either all or
part of the day next Monday is having
some difficulty in getting the consent
of a number of the business men to
close. II seems that all of the stores
and offices should close at least part
of the day and thus aid in making the
celebration a great success.
Howard Welsh. brother of Burdette
Welsh of the Grand Junction Fruit
Growers association, died yesterday
morning in Salt Lake City from in
juries received as result of fall |
from high building on which he was
working. Burdette Welsh, who as
stated by The Sentinel the day after
the accident. left this city at once for
Salt Lake City, was delayed many
hours on account of the washout on
the western end of the Rio Grande
and did not get to Salt Lake City |
until after his brother had died
Attorney Jonathan A. Mariner and
many other former Iowans in Grand
Junction and in this valley learn
with sorrow of the death of Attorney
A. +. Swisher, a leading member of
the bar of Iowa City. Ia, and one
of the best known attorneys of that J.
section of the state. Attorney Swish
er died as the result of nervous
break. down. He was a man of bril-
liant attainments. He was a close
personal friend of Attorney Mariner
of this city. The death occurred on
the evening OF August 90
A victory was won in the county
court late yesterday afternoon by The
defendant in the suit of Thomas
Cropper, of Fruita. against Dial
Dutton. Cropper as detailed by rhe
Sentinel yesterday, claiming that
Dutton owed him 5000 as a fee for
making realty deal. Dutton claim
ed that he made the sale himself and
owed no one fee. He was repre-
sented by Attorney Wheeler The
jury of three men We're out only a
few minutes and returned a verdict
for Dutton.
DR.. Charles Gasho returned 10 the
city this morning from Colorado !
Springs where he attended the big |
enca mpment of the Uniform Rank
knights of Pythias, and the sessions
of the Grand Lodge of that order.
He states that the meetings were
great successes and among the big
sest lodge gatherings in the history !
of the state The Uniform Rank pa
rade was one of the finest parades |
of that nature ever made In the state |
f. G. Chapman, one of the local |
lodges representatives al the Grand |
Lodge will return home tonight
Ed Johnston, deputy sheriff of Car |
bon county, who shot and killed |
"Gunplay" Maxwell at Price August |
%, after Maxwell had drawn his gun
and threatened to kill him. was in
Salt Lake yesterday visiting with
members of the local sheriff's force.
Johnston has been offered $1,000 for
the gun with which he killed the bad