The daily sentinel., 1909-02-18
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

fNculeulDe1 10 OIutI gOhi hO"tio
for the Elks ball.
George Reeder of Delta is in the
city on short business trip.
A. N Cutting. Denver man who
is well known here, is in town.
w. X Dow returned yesterday
from a weeks business visit to Den
yer.
Tomorrow evening the annual ball
and banquet of the Elks will take
place
Thousands of dollars were distrib-
uted here yesterday by the railroad
pay car.
The board of directors of the
Chamber of Commerce will meet to-
morrow evening.
Lloyd Aldrich, the we'll known
young civil engineer, has been quite
i'll for the past two days.
J. S. Mcpherson and Thomas Jen-
nings of Ouray are in town today,
looking after business interests.
Work was done in the rank of
knight at a largely attended meeting
of the knights of Pythias last night.
James Sharpe of Council Grove.
Kans. is spending a few days in
Grand Junction. He is at the st.
Regis.
Mrs. Horace T. DeLong and her
two sons, Weston and Ira, left today
for Denver for a brief visit with
Senator DeLong.
Archie Wells, reporter on The
Daily Sentinel, is suffering from an
attack of la grippe, and was unable
to be on duty today.
A. T. Kraft. the well known drug
gist, is slowly recovering from the
attack of typhoid fever. He will
soon be able to be out again.
Under Sheriff Charles Wallis was
| in the Palisade and Clifton country
yesterday summoning jurors for the
March term of the district court.
District court will open in Grand
Junction for the regular term, the
first week in March Not a busy ses-
sion or a very long one is expected.
The announcement in yesterdays
Sentinel of the coming of Clifford Pin
chot created much interest, and
there is general desire expressed
to hear the head of the forest SER
vice
All ministers should remember
that they have special invitations to
attend the performance of "The Holy
City" at the Park opera house, and
the courtesies of the house will be
| extended to the ministers.
| Many people have ordered The
friends back east. All the fruit and
| prosperity stories, as well as column
after column of interesting local mat
| ter appear each week in The Weekly
| Sentinel Ask for copy.
All trains last night were many
hours late owing to storms in the
mountains. No 5 and No. l did not
| get in until after s am. today, be-
ing more than six hours late. The
trains from the west were also sew
eral hours late. The train from
Montrose came in five or six hours
| behind time.
AS announced in The Sentinel the
day the first announcement of the
election of the new bishop for West
ern Colorado was made, every effort
will be made to get Grand Junction
made the see city, and plans to this
| effect are going ahead constantly.
Grand Junction is the ideal place for
the residence of the new bishop.
Just six weeks from next Tues
day-April 6-the Grand Junction
( municipal election will occur A
warm campaign will be waged with
| in these six weeks, several conven-
tions are to be held and many politi-
cal meetings will be pulled off. II
is expected that the campaign Will
be one of the most exc lng munich
/ pal battles the city ever VIII
messed.
1t is said that the c 4 ci.izen-
ship League and the Anti-Saloon
League will put up a complete city
ticket for the coming election. and
therefore there seems to be every
promise of a three-cornered munich
pal fight According to reports, r..
l.. Magill and Ed NJ. Slocomb are be-
ing considered by the leaders in the
reform movement in connection with
the race for the office OF mayor.
1t is laughable to read the state
ments in the Morning Yellow to the
effect that the local people get the
first news of the Legislative move
ments each day in the Yellow. Won
der If the Yellow could ever make
itself really believe such rot? A
comparison of the two daily papers
Denver service is all that is neces-
sary to prove that The Sentinel gives
the important legislative happenings
at least IL hours before any other To-
cal paper The Sentinel gives its
readers the Denver news up to 3 I'm.
each day. The Yellow gives it's read
4 ers the same Denver news the day
after the events transpire. But then
the Yellow has never worried about
telling the truth, and the people
know it; so. whats the use"