The Delta independent., 1895-08-07
LOCAL.

ldsL Week OH DuSlueSS.
Marvin and George Stewart were down
from Paonia Saturday.
Joe Rollins and family are taking in
the Grand mesa resorts.
E. NJ and w. F. Duke were down last
Thursday from Hotchkiss.
Miss Bertha Ritter returned last week
from her visit at Montrose.
Zetta Friend returned Monday to
Gunnison after visit here.
Charley Wilson is now waiting on
customers at Mabry & Kistler's.
D. Jennings of Butler, Mo, is here
visiting his sister, Mrs. S. B. Tucker.
Mrs. Jordan, mother OF Mrs. A. D.
Brown. is visiting at Montrose this
| week.
Mrs. Lizzie Gillett is visiting her
mother and sisters for few days, at
Salida.
Mrs. Braisted, Mrs. Conklin and 9TH
ers left Thursday for an outing on
Grand mesa.
on North Fork last Wednesday with a
load of fruit.
A labor school was to have been or.
ganized at Stewart school house, below
Paonia, last Saturday night.
John Burch. OF Crawford, was down
| Saturday on business and made this
office a brief but agreeable call.
Fruit shipments amounting to car
load day are not a bad showing for
Delta at this stage OF the season.
f. c. Fawcett. Of the upper North
Fork, came down Wednesday with
load Of fruit and dropped in during the
evening for a chat with THE ISDEPESD-
Esr force.
Sheriff Gallup. of Chaffee county, and
wife. who have been here for a week
visiting E. c. Harrison, Mrs. Gallups
brother, left Thursday for their home at
Buena Vista.
W. I. Hawkey was down from Paonia
last Thursday looking after business
| matters. While here he arranged with
the Stockam & Hillman Co. to build
handsome seven room residence on
Meeker street.
W. A. Wagner has taken the contract
| for the construction OF an extensive res
ervoir in Trickel basin for Messrs Harry
Kohler. T. E. Lamb: J. B. Hart, James
Zaninetti and others. He will begin
next Monday and will work nine one
| horse carts. three two-horse carts and
twelve men.
Last week II. X. Braisted was tried
| before Police Judge Robson for vio-
lating the liquor ordinance OF the city
on five counts The trial resulted in one
| withdrawal. two we're dismissed by the
| Judge, and in two a fine OF slo. The
doctor appeals the last two cases to the
| county court
A. A. Smith was down from his ranch
| on Bell creek. at the foot OF Mt. Lam
born, last week and made this Office a
pleasant call. He has 10 acres Of or
chard which has been set two years and
was irrigated but once last year and not
at all this year. The trees are all max
ing good growth under deep and fire.
quent cultivation. He also has acres
OF wheat, OF corn. OF alfalfa. . Of oats.
and 8 acres OF old orchard in bearing.
A very jolly party OF young folks,
| chaperoned by Mrs. VIM. Mathers,
left Monday morning for Alexander
lakes. on Grand mesa, where they will
remain several days. Those in the
party are Misses Minnie Girardet, Stella
Graham, May Mathers, Mary Cameron
and Vena Phelps; Messrs. n. Ernest
Clack. Will Mathers, Harry Mathers,
Tom Gale and Edd Van De Venter, a
very congeniai set, full Of fun and pre-
pared to enjoy themselves to the utmost.
| C. NJ. Hammond, OF Paonia, and John
Walsh. Of Delta, have formed a partner
County Bank building, where they may
be found by those who may have any
business in that line. They have both
grown up to manhood in this county
and by their own exertions have fitted
themselves for admission to the bar.
where they passed very creditable ex-
aminations, and THE INDEPENDENT ex-
tends to them hearty welcome TO
Dcltas professional circles. Their pro.
fessional card appears in another col.
umn.
The Canon City Record says: PROT
w. G. Harris, principal OF the Delta
schools, and one Of the leading educa.
tors OF the Western Slope, spent Tues
day in town visiting with the Record
man and looking at our fruit country.
Before coming here Mr.. Harris was of
the opinion that fruit only grew west of
tho range. but after n drive through
ErN;tr,orc T,;nrolr pnrl, u,1 South