The daily sentinel., 1909-03-31
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

A vote ior the CitlZenS a. TaNpay-
ers' League ticket will be vote for
a Greater Grand Junction.
This afternoon the Woman's Relief
1 Corps is entertaining at a social in
odd Fellows hall. Many are present
Have 10-acres in the Pomona Park
district at bargain. II will pay you
to investigate this. ollie f. Bannis-
ter, 424 Main-st
Senator Guggenheim has recon-
mended the reappointment of Mrs.
Nellie r.. Sommers as postmaster at
Gunnison.
We have some bargains in ranch
and city properly, call and see us.
See Fl. j. GRAY Realty Co, 337
Main-st
Mr.. and Mrs, Bob Jameson. who
left here recently for Grand junction
are well pleased with their new loca-
tion, Mr. Jameson is working for
7. o. Clarke Aspen Democrat
ID. Lee Staley went down to Grand
Junction on yesterday mornings
! train where he will take in the White
Sox game and wear Grand juno
tion uniform Telluride journal.
C. E. Burton superintendent of
the Indian school at Grand junction,
came in from Durango on last nights
train and this morning continued on
to his home at Grand Junction.
Telluride Journal.
Frank Frein, for many years the
local freight agent for the d. & r. G.
at Salida, died Monday night of
cancer of the stomach He has been
resident of Salida for the past fif-
teen years and was well known and
popular.
John B. Olson. who has been rusti-
eating in the balmy atmosphere of
Grand Junction for the past month,
returned to Telluride on Saturday
evening. Mr.. Olson reports the
weather at Grand Junction as being
about as warm there at this time as
it usually is in Telluride in mid-sum-
mer.-Telluride Journal
Il. Il. Sands, project engineer of
the High Line canal at Grand juno
ton. stopped over at the New Sher-
idan last night en- route home from n
trip through northern New Mexico.
Mr.. Sands reports that good progress
is being made on the surveys, etc, at
Grand Junction, and that the dirt
will begin to fly in a short time
Telluride Journal.
c. NJ. Baily and j. L. Atkinson
went over to Grand junction Friday
100000 consignment of fruit trees.
Messrs Baily and Atkinson have dis
posed of upwards of 100000 fruit
trees during the past season in Mon
trose. Delta and Mesa counties which
indicates that there will be a large
acreage of orchards put in this year.
-Montrose Enterprise.
Fred a. Atkinson. resident of
Glenwood Springs since 1855, died
Monday at Seattle. Wash, of Bright's
disease. He was born in Illinois and
was so years old. He was unmarried
and leaves a brother and sister. He
came to Colorado in 1885 almost
penniless. but by careful attention to
his contracting business. he amassed
a fortune of over $4,000. He leaves
$4,000 of this amount TO the Glen
wood Masonic lodge, while the bal
ance goes TO his brother and sister.
Geo. p Weber. of Denton, Neb.,
last Saturday purchased the ranch of
Robert Sampson, one and one-half
miles west of the city, consisting of
100 acres, for $4,000. Mr.. Weber
will take possession of the place in a
a couple of days and will farm it
himself this year. having purchased
the interest the renter had in the
crop.-Montrose Press.
The preliminary steps toward the
condemnation of site for the pro-
posed new federal building in Gree
ley were taken before United States
Judge Robert e. Lewis this morning.
The government has selected a plot
of ground l50 by 115 near the inter
section of Eighth avenue and Eighth
street in the Weld county seat. but
the owners of the propery have re-
fused to sell and are resisting con-
demnation on the ground that there
are other sites more suitable and that
their property has been selected
through the connivance of owners of
adjoining property who hope to
profit by the erection of the post
office on the ground mentioned.
Among the defendants named are
William Mayhem, James Tuckerman,
Bruce f. Johnson, Charles II. Wheel
er, Horace G.. Clark, Milton A. Lyons
and Franklin p. Frost, present or
former acting executors of the estate
of the late Warren Currier. eighteen
of the Currier heirs, the Union colony
of Colorado. the Woolf Real Estate
company and Pliny w. Allen. treas
urer of Weld county.-Denver Times.