The Delta independent., 1895-07-10

Peter Mundry and family are camp
ing in Mrody park, on the mesa.
DR.. and Mrs Hicls are now occupying
the house racated by W. H. Crotser.
Frank Bigelow and Mabel are ericy-
ing the Fourth at Delta.-Lake City
Times.
Rube Cameron was thrown from a
burro Sunday and had his collar bone
fractured.
". II. Cr,.tser has purchased the
Meldrurn house, at the corner of Fifth
and Palmer. ard are now OCCUPYING it.
Charles Hill and wife Of Illinois, ar
rived Mondav, and will remain some
time visiting his sister, Mrs. Lois Bear.
The Delta boys are now kicking be
cause they neglected to capture the
creased pig at Montrose. They are q
hard lot 10 satisfy.
Gale Bros. have completed the founda-
tion for the new opera house block. 1t
is the most extensive piece of stone work
ever done here, containing 800 perch Of
stone.
An old man named McElroy died Sat
urday night at the Commercial house,
Of dropsy He was well known char
acter about Delta though but little is
known concerning his relatives. He
was buried here.
J.D. whitehurst, the leading grocer
of Salida. came over Thursday for a
brief visit with Mrs. J. Gillett. and to
inspect his ranch up the Gunnison.
He was greatly pleased with the
appearance of things up there.
A. W. Douglas. OF the Simmons
Hardware Co.. arrived from st. Louis
last Thursday accompanied by his wife.
They will visit w. r Simpson and
family and expect to put in most of
their time in camping expedition to
Grand Mesa points.
This office has just received two fonts
of new "Stationcr'sr script. the very
latest thing out for ladies calling cards.
wedding invitations and society work.
Cards printed from it cannot be distin-
guished from those which are engraved
and if you want the correct thing as to
style, size and quality you can get it
here.
Sunday afternoon S. B. fuckers little
boy got hold OF match and set fire to
the straw in box back of the house.
An alarm was turned in but before the
tiremen arrived Frank Shields dragged
the box away from the house and stopped
the FIRE. 1t was close call and en-
phasizes the danger OF letting children
play with matches under any circum-
stances.
James Real. of Ophir, came over last
Wednesday for visit with John Killian
and while here closed Il deal for thirty
acres of the Fields ranch, up the Gun
nison, and ten acres adjoining it belong
ing to McMurray. He ordered THE
INDEPENDENT sent up to keep him
posted on the doings here and in the
fall will send his family down to spend
the winter. Mr.. Real has secured n
good pieco of property and viii never
regret his Investment.
William Blake, u constant reader Of
tho Tribune in the aourishing farming
community OF Hotchkiss, is interested
in the reports of local nimrods catching
strings OF large fish in our streams, but
he caps tbe climax in the following brief
, statement and is entitled to the leather
medal. I'VE see in your paper great
many fish stories, but they can't com
pare with the ones down here. We
catch them with pitchforks by the
wagon load that do not weigh less than
three pounds. Can send more If you
want them" The fish editor OF this
great religious paper always has
his eagle eye open to catch the
unsuspecting fish story and he will
be glad to hear from Mr.. Blake otten.-
Gunnison Tribune.