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Show GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. (Special Correspondence.) John Denvor of Rochester, N. T., representing Crause & Brodgee, is in the city calling on his customers. Mr. Denvor is a thorough Knight of Columbus, Co-lumbus, and we are always pleased to meet with such men. L. W. Storm left last evening for Denver, where he will be in conference with the managers of Swift & Co. Some business changes will be the feature fea-ture of the meeting. Mrs. Hogan and son of Aspen are visiting friends in this city. Frank Backstone has accepted a position po-sition with the E. A. Ryan Mercantile company. Frank has many good friends who wish him all kinds of success. W. H. Vollmer, manager of the Independent Inde-pendent Fruit Growers' association, returned re-turned last Friday from a short business busi-ness trip to California.- The La Coste Dry Goods company had" their fall opening on last Thursday Thurs-day and Friday afternoons and evenings. even-ings. The store was indeed charmingly charming-ly decorated, and every figure was draped in the most attractive manner. Madame Roe's display of millinery was certainly grand. The lady clerks all wore white gowns, and as Payn's Imperial Im-perial orchestra rendered the beautiful i selections prepared, for this occasion, the girls all in whitf imoved about, "one might say," like tttle fairies among trie immense bouqufets of chrysanthemums. chrysanthe-mums. 1 There were severail Hallowe'en parties. par-ties. Among- them yvas the Misses Herbert's, Her-bert's, given at their home on the corner cor-ner of Ouray aven" le and Sixth street. All report a very 3 oily time. Rev. T. M. "' CoP"-ay will leave Sunday Sun-day evening for penver and Cheyenne, where will havej a lot of business to attend to in regarjfl to the windows and pews for the new 'church. Mr. Harry Gropes, who is in Salt Lake at the Hoftl Cross hospital under the care of Dr. IL L. Niles, is getting along nicely. , M Miss Laura 4llmer has accepted a position with tlpe Primrose Jewelry company. Her (many friends are glad to see her homei again. Mrs. W. H. Gloves has returned from Gunnison, wheia she has been visiting relatives and friends. Her daughter, Grace, accompanied her. Mrs. T. W. Rickards of Boise City, Ida., has stopped over to visit her sister, sis-ter, Mrs. A. F. McCaber, and brother, (E. A. Ryan. She is going to visit for several weeks in her old home in Wisconsin. Wis-consin. . S. G. Wright and C. M. Blair of Boston Bos-ton are spending- a few days here while en route to the far west. |