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He was the publisher of The Daily Sentinel and a leading Democrat in Grand Junction, Colorado. He became the state Democratic Party chairman in the 1920's. He was behind the deal of William Moyer to build a community swimming pool in Lincoln Park, and the deal that brought in the Fruit Grower’s Association. He also backed the Goodwill and Salvation Army charities. He was an organizer of the campaign to build the Avalon Theater and brought acts...
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An employee of Walter Walker who worked for The Daily Sentinel newspaper.
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She was from Kentucky. She was the wife of Daily Sentinel owner and publisher Walter Walker, whom she married in 1903. While Walter Walker was reputed to be reserved in his personal and family life, Kathie was more outgoing and, at least outwardly, in control. She was a doting mother who gave her attention to her only son, Preston Walker. She often drove Walter Walker home in the evening because he did not drive.
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She was the sister of Kathie (Wood) Walker (herself the wife of Daily Sentinel publisher Walter Walker). She sometimes wrote editorials for The Daily Sentinel.
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A member of the Ku Klux Klan who roughed up Walter Walker during an incident in the street for the things he was writing in the Sentinel.
6) Moslander
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He ran the pool hall in the 500 block of Main Street on the South side. He was a Democrat, a confidant of Walter Walker, and involved in the campaign to build the Avalon Theater.
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He was the son of Daily Sentinel publisher Walter Walker, and a colorful local character in Grand Junction. He was also the best friend of Gilbert Baylis. As a young man he was a newspaper delivery worker and had a high interest in the newspaper industry. He wrote for the school paper. He played football in high school, was class president, and was said to enjoy working with his hands and building things. He became the publisher of the Daily Sentinel...
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He was a longtime employee of the U.S. Postal Service in Clifton, Colorado. In 1938, Walter Walker provided him with the recommendation and influence needed to secure the postmaster job there.
9) Becky Walker
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Preston Walker’s wife. She worked as a secretary for The Daily Sentinel, where, according to interviewees of the Mesa County Oral History Project, she was disliked by her father-in-law Walter Walker and by others on staff because she tried to take over key elements of the newspaper even though she lacked a newspaper background. According to the Grand Junction City Directory, she later became the general manager of the Sentinel Printing Company,...
10) Porter Carson
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He was a mid-Twentieth century Grand Junction, Colorado city councilman and mayor who also owned the Carson Bicycle Shop. With Walter Walker and several others, he formed a committee for the creation of a Veterans Administration Hospital in Grand Junction.
11) Gladys Burford
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The manager of the Avalon Theater in the early to mid-Twentieth Century. Al Look described her as a very, very smart woman. She was rumored to be more than “just friends” with Walter Walker. She passed away from a car accident where she drove head on into a train, rumored to be while drinking
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Bonfils was the longtime owner and publisher of The Denver Post newspaper, which he purchased with Harry Tammen in 1895 and ran until his death in 1933. Bonfils was a rival of Walter Walker, owner of The Daily Sentinel and major Democratic Party operative in the State of Colorado. At one point, Bonfils caught a 6 or 8 pound trout and put it on display in The Denver Post window, also writing a story about it. Walker wrote a piece to Time magazine...
13) W.D. Toyne
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Came from Ohio. He was the city manager of Grand Junction from 1950-1956. He had significant previous experience as city manager in other towns. According to local historian and city councilman Karl Johnson, he was let go by the council as a result of his inability to satisfy Walter Walker, the managing editor of the Daily Sentinel.
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She was born in Colorado to John Giblin, an Irishman who was born in England, and to Eva Giblin of Nebraska. She attended Mesa College in the late 1930's, where she worked on the Criterion student newspaper under faculty advisor William Hartman. She began working for the The Daily Sentinel newspaper in 1941 and worked with Walter Walker for 15 of those years. She wrote on women’s issues, something she was not all that interested in, and also on...
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He was the publisher of Grand Junction, Colorado's The Daily News in the 1920’s, and possibly earlier.
He was born in Kansas and US Census Records show him living in Gunnison, Colorado by 1885. He married Meta (Gibbs) Adams in Gunnison County in 1893. The 1900 Census shows him living in Gunnison, and his occupation as editor. By 1910 he was living in Montrose and his occupation was listed as Publisher.
The Daily News was Grand Junction’s first...
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Owner of the Bannister Furniture Company. He was elected to the State Senate in 1918 and retired in 1934. He was then the regional manager of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, a New Deal agency. As a State Senator, he put through the bill that placed Mesa College (now known as Colorado State University) in Grand Junction, Colorado. He was a good friend of Walter Walker, publisher of The Daily Sentinel and state Democratic Party power broker.
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Lumber company owner, socialist, and mayor of Grand Junction. Thomas Todd was born in Illinois to Andrew Calvin Todd, a farmer and clergyman from South Carolina, and Margaret Louisa (Willson) Todd. Todd's mother most likely died when he was young, as the 1870 US Census shows him living with his grandmother and siblings in Illinois at the age of 12, and the 1880 US Census shows Todd and his siblings living in Weld County, Colorado with his father (listed...
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He was born in Minnesota and grew up, in part, on California Mesa in Delta County. His father was Frank X. Goettelman of Iowa, the son of French and Canadian immigrants. He was a farmer. His mother was Lena Goettelman of Minnesota, the daughter of Canadian immigrants. She was a homemaker. The 1920 U.S. Census shows Clem working as a printer in Delta County at the age of 18.
Clem worked for The Daily Sentinel from 1923 until 1946. He worked for...
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She was born in Grand Junction, Colorado. Her mother was Alice Elizabeth (Bittinger) Buthorn of Iowa. Her father was William Frederick Buthorn, a German immigrant and owner of the prominent La Court Hotel on Main Street in the early and mid-Twentieth century. She had a twin sister named Willa Maude. While in high school she played in the orchestra, sang for school clubs, and was a member of the Spanish Club. They grew up living in the LaCourt Hotel...
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She was born in Cravens, Oklahoma to George Earl Boyd and Birdie Mae (Weir) Boyd. She moved to Grand Junction, Colorado in November of 1930, when she was 19. The 1931 Grand Junction City Directory shows her living in what was most probably a boarding house at 1315 North 7th Street, and working as a maid. She graduated from Grand Junction High School in 1931 and went to Mesa College for a semester in 1932. She worked as a housekeeper for Walter and...
