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True Economy The difference in cost between an alum baking powder and the highest-class cream of tartar bak ing powder would not amount for a family’s supply to one dollar a year. Dr. Price’s is the standard cream of tar tar baking powder. It makes the food de licious and healthful. Note.—You cannot, if you value good health, afford to use cheap, low-grade, alum baking powders. They are apt to spoil the food ; they do endanger the health. All physicians will tell you that alum in food is deleterious. Tomorrow ia what ia known as "Ground Hog” day. The atory, as it goes, ia that if that animal cornea from hie winter home and aees hia shadow that he will return to hia hole and remain there dur ing the next six weeks, indicating that the weather will be atormy during that time. If he should not see hia shadow, he will remain outside hia hole, girin.’ evidence that the warm weather will soon be upon ua. The celebration of Cahdelmaa day will take place in the St. Joseph's Catbolic church tomorrow. OIL! OIL OIL!) 1 THE GRAND VALLEY 1 I PETROLEUM & GAS CO. f Has just been organized by Colorado Springs capitalists and Grand Junction business men. it r . now owns over 9.000 acres of choice oil land in Grand Valley most of which is between this ® ri*v anH IVRpniie. A lartie Dart of the company's stock has been taken by Colorado Springs and Hiis valley may share in the enterprise a limited n this city at only 5 CENTS per share or fifty the price will be raised to 10 cents per share, s now receiving subscriptions for the stock. Fully paid, nou-assessauis f [CORPORATORS: 8 L MULKEY, Secretary! Assistant Postmaster. Grand Junction Colo. K. GAYLORD, Treasurer; ?,°SS,o. Grand Junction. Colo. * C. SCHUYLER. Director; Railroad Attorney. Colorado Springs. © sk will all be gone soon. | iIiED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE DEMAND FOR HOUR GLASSES. Some Are Used for Keeping Tab om Plano Practice. "Moat people think that hour glass es went out of style years ago,” said a clerk in a Twenty-third street store to the New York Sun. “along with perukes and knee breeches, but as a matter of fact we have more calls for them today than we have had at any time within the last ten years. That this renewed popularity of the hour glass augurs its unlversW acceptance as a timepiece by the mbilsk genera tion, I am not prepawed fca say. but if such a renaissance were tH-become as sured It would be no more surprising than some of the other recent fads based on a revival of lost customs. Anyway a brief study of tse hour glass will do nobody harm. There are thou sands in this generation who have not the slightest idea what an hour glass looks like, and it won’t hurt them to broaden their education a little along certain lines. Of the hour glasses sold at present the three-minute class is in the lead. This glass is used almost exclusively to measure time in boiling eggs and its usefulness naturally places its sale a little in advance of the more sentimental varieties. Next come the five, ten and fifteen minute and full hour glasses, which are bought chiefly by musicians for piano practice and by lodges and secret so cieties. The sand used in an hour glass Is the very finest that the world affords. The western coast of Italy furnishes most of it. as it has done for ages past. The cost of hour glasses is regulated by the ornamentation of the frames. A glass set in a plain rose wood case can be bought for sl. while a mahogany frame comes to $1.50 or $2. Of course, the price can be brought up still higher by fancy carving and decoration. Swell lodges sometimes go to this extra expense, but most people are satisfied with the cheaper grades.’* Samuel G. McMullin is in Deßeque today. 1 here has been a large farmer contin gent in the city today. Col. C. C. Bower is down from Pali sades and says that their company has sold 66,000 shares of their stock and it is going fast. The Whitewater oil company is look ing forward very expectantly to the arri val of thair machinery. They will puah work fast when it does come and be ready as quickly as any other company to tell what is contained in mother earth. FAMOUS HANGMAN INSANE. Hie Ghostly Job Drov* Him to the Mod home. It was recently announced that Amos Lunt, the famous San Quentin hangman, who went mad as a result of his grewsome duties, was dying in the State Asylum for the Insane at Napa, Cal. The career of Lent as a hangman was a remarkable one, and a full history of his life at the prison would read like a ghastly romance For seven years he filled the office of state executioner, and nineteen mur derers were hanged by him. It wag, Lunt who threw the noose about the neck of Theodore Durant and hasten ed an execution already unduly pro longed, while the murderer from the scaffold was making his protestations of innocence. On this occasion Lunt was reported as being the coolest man in the room, with the possible excep tion of the condemned man himself. On other occasions Lunt showed a nerve of Iron. In one morning he hanged three men and then sauntered from the execution room smoking a cigarette. But despite his apparent utter indif ference concerning his work os a man killer it was known my many of his intimate friends that in secret he brooded over it. Therefore it caused little surprise when on falling into a fortune about two years ago he prompt ly resigned his position. Some months later he returned to the position and resumed his duties as hangman, al though the prospect of arranging the rope on another man seemed to appall him. He constantly talked abou: it and brooded over it, and suddenly one morning the iron nerve snappec and he became a hopeless madman. —Utica Globe. GRAND ARMY OF THIS REPUBLIC Grand Junction Post No. 35. meets every Second ana fourth Saturday at Odd fellows Hall, Visiting Com -mles welcome; Wm Warner, Adj J R Fallis, Com MESA LODGE NO. 66, A. F. 9l A. M. Meets the first and third Thursday in each month at Masonic hall Canon Block, corner Fourth and Main Sta. Wm Carlyle, Sec. A R Sampliner, W M GRAND JUNCTION LODGE NO B. P. 0. E. Meet First and third Mondays of each month- J H GALLUPh JAMES SILCOX Secretary E. R. Rooming House WITH I I ROOMS FOB RERT $35 PER MONTH FOB SOLE! TEN ACRES with the best funning house in Mesa County $350.0 HTMONG, Main St., Canon Block, UR AND JUNCTION, COLO. EXCELSIOR LAUNDRY Cool weather is approaohing. Send us f’oar Ane wool underwear ef yours and have t made like oew, soft and olean. We do family washings in any style desired. We don’t have to uee chemicals to get linen clear and white. Call on uo and we guaran tee aatiafaotion. We deliver to any part of eity. Excelsior Steam Laundry. Frank Baehriag, Prop. M usic. Private Instructions Given on Piano, Violin, Guitar, in and all Orchestral and ! Instruments. Nothing but standard up material or methods u-rd. and orchestra furnished for ■ <• casions. Headquarters a Thompson Jeweiry tV Mu. i Music room corner oth & <' S M BOYEF Director Boyer’s Or rn, Ladies’ Columbine i , Citizens Bund. STRICTLY FIR CLASS BLUE FRONT LIVERY BARN Our Specialty Is strictly up to date rubber carriage* ami first class h Sales stables in connection. POST a BOYD PROPRIETORS. E. F. ELDRIDGE, Physician and Sur 0v jn OMoe and Laboratory <>v»r Unpton Bh<> •> Main street. All medicine* famished ova laboratory. Telephone Red 633 Telephone B. 6 and 0. L. F. INtfVBSOLL, Physician, and Surge •> Surgeon for Color ido Midland, ' fc R. G. and Rio tvramiH »* MMiern . OFFICE: Rooms 1& I, l!o>* «• ' i, BHHIDENCK; White Bt. uetween Bth a <1 SAMUEL N. WHEEL R Attorney-at-Law Grand Junction, Colora n