The daily sentinel., 1914-06-15
What Our Neighbors Are Doing
PAL|SADE NEWS

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Mrs. c. Sloanaker and Master Gra-
ham Lyday of Newton, Iowa. are re-
cent arrivals, and will spend the
summer with Prof. J. l.. Sloanaker.
Mrs. Nuckons OF De Beoue is
spending few days visiting at the
home of oloff Nelson.
Chas. T. Yeager departed for his
home at Stewart, Iowa last evening
after a few days with his father, ]
E. Yeager.
Mrs. T. j. Griffith who has been
visiting friends in Kansas for some
time, returned with her daughter.
Myrtle, who has been attending col
lege at Colorado Springs Saturday.
c. S. Reed. who has been here for
some time looking after his orchard
interests. returned TO his home in
Pasadena. Calf, FRIDAY evening.
The Palisade Business Mems asso-
citation are contemplating giving
banquet to its members In the near
future for the purpose of revfving
the tagging interests OF its members
and to take up questions that are of
vital interest to the community
among them being the proposition
Of securing help to handle the crpp
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growers. Our orchardists have in
the past, depended largely on the
lower end of the valley and the Pm
onia district to furnish a consider
able portion of this help. however
we anticipate that the districts
mentioned VIII have a plenty of
work for their people, and we must
look elsewhere. We would suggest
that this matter be taken up all
once to secure the skilled pickers and
packers that are available.
Miss Eltha Hoke entertained
number of her young friends at her
birthday party Saturday evening.
the young people amusing them
selves with music and games, after
which ice cream and cake were
served.
The members of the Modern Wood
men of the World gave a uniformed
dance Friday evening in Bowre hall.
number of parties from Grand
Junction participating, and a gener-
al good time was had by all present.
/. E. c. Herford came up from Grand
Junction Saturday evening after a
weeks services as head bookkeeper
of the Central Selling Agency, and
informs us that he will move his
family to the county geat in a few
days.
The ball game played on the home
grounds Sunday afternoon between
the Cameo and home teams. was a
hotly contested game. and al the
end of the ninth inning the score
stood one for Palisade and nine for
Cameo.
The Catholic church is now COM
pleted with the exception of INSTALL
ing the fixtures, and will be ready
for services in few days.
'Palisade is to have a canning fac
tory" was the decision of the stock
holders of the Western Slope Fruit
Growers association Saturday eve
ming at mass meeting held in the
Bower hall by call of the board of
directors to receive the final report
of the committee appointed for that
purpose some time ago. President
of the board, F. p. Poart called the
meeting to order at S:30 and chair
man of the committee, H. L. Snyder
reported the findings of the commit
tee, which were very exhaustive and
he also read several letters from the
wholesalers and jobbes5 in canned
goods, giving words of encourage
ment and offering to take the entire
output of the plant at prices that ap-
peared to the stockholders very flat
tering. After discussing the matter
from different viewpoints the board
of directors were authorized to pro-
ceed at once to raise sufficient funds
from the stockholders, on some plan
to be determined by the board, from
several that We're suggested by the
growers. The most logical one was
to sell additional stock to the stock
holders. Practically all present eX-
pressed a willingness to subscribe.
The plant to be installed will use
the most modern machinery, can
ming number ten, or gallon pie
peaches, apples and pears, the capac-
ity of the plant will be $500 cans in
ten hours and it is proposed to op-
crate the plant continuously during
the busy season, putting out about
$500 cans daily of "a hours. It is
planned to increase the capacity OF
the plant as the demand for the pro-
duct may require and to add new
features If the business warrants it.
The plant will be in readiness to
handle this years crop, is the in
tention of the beard of directors.