The daily sentinel., 1909-09-20
....Local Euents....

Already visitors from points all
over the state are pouring into Grand
junction to remain during fair week.
Miss Stewart, of Nevada. Mo. has
located in Grand junction and has
accepted a position with the Mesa
! Dry Goods company.
This week will be memorable i'm
The history. not only of Grand juno
tion and Mesa county. but OF the en-
tire western slope
! X. c. Walker, of the Caldwell
! Walker Realty company. returned
home last night from a business trip
TO points in the Plateau valley.
Orson Adams, the junction banker.
was shaking hands with friends at
the depot today while on his way to.
the Gunnison river fishing Satur-
days Montrose Press.
James A. Becker, formerly of this
city. now manager of the big Lily
lands irrigation project in Montrose
and San Miguel counties, has been in
/ Denver for several days on matters
/ of importance to the big project
T C. Caldwell of the Caldwell
Walker Realty company. leaves to-
morrow evening for points in Mis-
souri, on business trip. He will be
out of the city about ten days.
y. \. Anderson and wife of Spen-
Ger. Iowa. are visiting the family of
w w. Johnson at Fruita. The An
derson's S are well known in this city
and will meet with hearty welcome
from their many friends here.
In yesterdays Denver News there
appeared very interesting and
breezy dialectic poem by James Bar
ton Adams, entitled That Smile of
Taft's. an Aged Grand Valley Fruit
Growers View of tt
Large crowds attended the camp
meeting services yesterday at the
Seventh Day Adventist camp meeting
in the Cottonwood park. in the north
eastern part of the city. The serv-
ices Will continue through this week
and are proving very successful and
interesting.
A. C. Newton. of this city, has
taken the splendid Mesa county fruit
exhibit shown at the interstate fair
in Denver last week to Pueblo where
1t will be exhibited this week at the
state fair. The exhibit captured
nearly 100 premiums in Denver last
week
The Robinson brothers brought in
an Elberta peach on Tuesday that
measured - inches in circumfer-
ence and weighed / . ounces. II was
raised on the ranch they recently
purchased of II. j. Pomeroy II was
exactly the same in size and weight
as that furnished last week by c. G.
Smith.-Palisade Tribune.
The CITY council of Alontrose at
meeting Saturday decided to tax all
hacks and other vehicles carrying
passengers TO and from the fair
grounds at Montrose this week.
license of $1,000 each. The council
also limited the price which licensed
vehicles could charge for passengers
TO 25 cents each way.
The Grand Junction Sentinel ad-
mits that the attractions of its city
are sometimes overdrawn by enthusi-
astic citizens writing to eastern
friends. Same one must have been
putting things unusually strong to
draw forth such a rebuke from ex-
Mayor Bunting, one of the original
boomers of the early days He is
content 10 describe the Grand June
tion country as reproduction of
paradise before the apple deal. and
let ii go at that.-Lamar Sparks.
Asbestos houses are much used in
Australia, says the October Popular
Mechanics, which contains a picture
of one of the houses. 1t is stated
that they are not only fireproof, but
impervious to water, unaffected by
heat or cold, and of high insulating
properties. Still another favorable
feature is the fact that it is not at
tackled by white ants or other in
sects that abound in southern coun-
tries.
The largest pear thus far brought
to this office in competition for the
Tribune prize of a years subscrip-
tion was that of II. b. Whitney of
Vineland. 1t was of the Bartlett va
riety, was Y inches in circumfer-
ence and weighed "A ounces. 1t was
a perfect specimen and was certainly
a monster. The competition is still
open for pear, peach or apple. the
largest of each to receive the same
prize. C C. Smiths Elberta meas
ured . inches and weighed Isl
ounces.-Palisade Tribune.
OF much local interest is the an
nouncement that the total cash re-
ceipts for the general land office for
the fiscal year ended June 80. last.
We're 81 .627.6SS, which is de-
crease of about 81 .000 900, compared
with the previous year, according to
statement issued by Commissioner
bennett saturday OF the total re-
ceipts. s9.235,234 was received from
the sale of public lands: s2.0S2,3lS
from the sale of Indian lands. and
s160.491 was received as reclamation
water right charges. OF the amount
collected from the sales of public
lands the reclamation fund will re-
ceive approximately sS,500.000.
Richie Budelier. of this city. was
one of the central characters in the
sensational class or flag controversy
at Colorado College. Colorado
| Springs, last Friday and one feature
of which rush has caused such a sem
sation. Budelier, who weighs about
/ 200 pounds and who issseveral inches
over feet talls is president of the
| freshmen and he wac EidnapnaJ