Delta chief., 1885-06-24

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AL communications should be addressed to
ROBERT D. BLAIR Publisher,
FRANK E. HOWARD, Editor,
Delta. Delta County, Colorado.
Business is picking up.
Masonic Festival at the Masonic Hall to-
night.
Hammond & Hamilton now have their
fve-ton scales ready to weigh.
Mrs John Barber, ofWhite Pine, Colorado,
is in the city visiting Mrs. John P. Bassler.
The brick walls ofthe new school house
are now rapidly gaining height and beauty.
At the next meeting of Delta Comet Band
the organization will be perfected and the
instruments ordered.
]. w. Weyer, of Grand Junction, who has
the contract for painting the new school
house, is in the city.
Miss Ella Blair entertained select party
of friends in honor of her fourteenth
birthday, on Tuesday evening last.
Mr. J. F. Wilbur, formerly connected
with the Colorado Farmer, now agent for
the Kinsey Implement Co., of Denver, was
in the city on Tuesday last.
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yesterday, with the intention of making this
her future home. Her many friends are
glad to welcome her back again.
We are authorized to announce that
dancing pavilion will be erected at the Ma.
sonic festival and dancing will be in order
after 10 O'Clock. Come all and participate
An unusually thick coat of carmi ne was
dobbed over our city on last Sunday night
As the Assessor was there, the costs were an
interesting feature in the programme. Boys,
boys!
The hens up in Montrose make the roosters
stay at home and hatch out the chickens
while they attend hen conventions and work
up scandals about Plymouth Rock roosters
and doninick pullets.
Mrs. Bond and daughter, Mrs. Andy Mel
drum, and Miss Nettie Goldsmith, came in
on last evenings train, They will remain
with us but short time, when they will re-
move to Denver, their future place of res.
idence.
The boss is evidently getting warmed up
to his work. We received from him last
week his ovsrcoat, and a message to the
effect that taking the census was not the
most Christian job imaginable.
The Rev. DIR. E. H. Sawyer, superintendent
of Baptist Missions, will preach at the NJ. E.
Church on Monday evening next. The theme
of his discourse will be EMISSIONS" DR.. Saw
yer is an able speaker, and We bespeak for
him full house.
Mr.. J. R. Spencer has halfbreed Brah-
ma and Plymoth Rock pullet. that recently
laid an egg, 7ix6 inches, her first egg
Don't tell us that fruit can't be raised in Del
ta county, for even hen fruit swells up like
nigger in watermelon patch, under the mag
ic influence of our Italian eli mate.
Last Thursday Col. Bailey was thrown
from his buggy upon the hard roadway with
such violence that he was knocked sensless
and came near knocking at the golden por-
tails that open into the great beyond. But
our prayers for his restorance again to our
arms were heard, and his jokes and smiles
are again the light of the town.
The people of Delta county certainly have
no cause TO kick regarding the lack of pa
triotism here. Fourth of July celebrations
will be held At three convenient places, SO
take your choice. Our ma says that we will
have to go to the one that our girl goes to, and
we suppose that well have to mind our ma.
One of the future towering industries of
Delta county il the highly favored scheme
of Mr.. Charles Zeigler, who has located a
ranch on the cpshman mesa and will erect
thereon 1A5b canning factory, and he says
that before 1liny dayshe will be supplying
{, the westsrn market with fresh canned prairie
dogs. We!wish Mr.. Zeigler andounded sue
ceAs in his nsw enterprise.
Mr.. r. D. Blair was in Delta on Saturday
last he having finished the census enumeration
of the eastern part OF the county. He struck
out again Monday morning andi now tax
ing in thy weStern portion. He says that
taking,the census is hard work, and that not
few look upon him a. an escaped convict
os<ope of fBarnum's curiosities, when he plies
TtRsp with questions regarding family affairs.
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