The Delta independent., 1898-05-20
Dooey ts looa S1 Raaeh o.
1oOo property. y. BAILEY.

Pssk Sisters. opera house, l5c.
VIII Gale got in from Oursy Monday.
Ladies calling cards with plates. This
oMce.
Dave Bailey has traded his city proper
~ 70 I. II. Mower.
George Stephan has gone to Gunnison
On Q business trip.
Last years apple crop OF Delta county
i about exhausted.
Wn. Smith, OF Cory. left last Satur-
day for visit to Oursy.
Full line Of screen wire and screen
doom at F. P. Hunt 4 Co.'S.
Nns. E. H. Wilson is slowly GONZALES
cling from her recent serious illness.
". r. Travis at his art studio is pre-;
pared to take the finest photographs.
STAPLE and fancy groceries and tobac-
cos st the Delta County Mercantile Co.
The Rev. DR.. Carnine, presiding elder
preached in the Methodist church last
Sunday.
Rev. A. NJ. Work will preach at the
school house Il miles north OF Eckert
Sunday, May p.
Mrs Messenger and Floyd will go to
Grand Junction Saturday for ten days
visit with DR.. Spoor.
G. n. Snider. clerk OF the district
court, went to Hotchkiss this week on
business and pleasure.
Niss Nettie Rowan. who has been
whiting Lake City for the past six weeks.
returned home last Saturday.
Percy Coombe got back from the
mother country the first OF the week,
aftse years visit, looking we'll
Themes for discussion at the Presby-
terian church Sunday, May - "Uncon-
cious Power" and "A Bad Ghost"
Howard Russell came over after his
family and left yesterday for Fort Collins,
vhsre he will in the future reside.
The foundation Of the Fruit Growers
aaocia,ion building at the depot is
about ready for the superstructure.
The Old Maids Convention held under
the auspices Of the Presby terian church
at the opera house Tuesday evening was
ons q the brightest entertainments given
in this city for some time. While the
chaacters were supposed to represent
those in the sere and yellow leaf. they
wses taken by the prettieet ladies OF the
city. and it required great deal Of max
ing up to portray the ideal old maid.
Altagether the evening was very pleas.
antiy spent.
he Winton coal mine on Tongue
csosk is now in apout l.l0O feet and is
Averaging twelve feet Of solid coal with.
out . break. Mr.. Winton IL driving a
dries sight fect square straight forward
and y iil run II in the neighborhood OF
800 ~ this year, Inequality improves
- depth 10 gained, and 10 DOW q good
steam coal. Mr.. Winfon has about forty
feet Of coai in the hill, lying above and
below The vein he is now working-the
l2 i,ot vein. some OF which is OF an ex-
cell.nt variety OF steam coal.
Prof. Aston Ellis, president OF the
| Agriculsural College at Fort Collins de-
l,vered his lecture on Spain and the
Spaniar1s" at the Methodist church
Tuesday evening. before a large and
highly apprecistive audience. The pro-
fessor reviewed the history OF Spain at
some Isosth aud his estimate OF the
SpaniaA character was a true exposition
| OF decaying race. Mr.. Ellis is travelling
in the interest OF the college and lectures
at every town he stops at as an incident
OF his trip. He is very pleasing and
forcib1s speaker and as intelligent a
gentleman as is ones fortune to meet.
Mira o. T. Standish delightfully."- enter.
tanned number OF young folks at her
home at Msyfower Farm, on Garnet
mesa last Monday evening. The even.
ing was spent in games. music. etc, after
which rsfreshments were served. Those
preseat were Rolla Heath. Laura Freder.
,cks. oucsnie Smith. Ruth Work. Setts
Friend. Grace Hunt, Emily Hastings
Bessie Chiles. Madie Hawkey, jamie
and Loetie McGranahan, Rose Hawkey
Daisy Savage; Messrs. Ed James. Charlie
Bowdsn. Abel Work. Charles Fowles
Duke Upacgraf. Ernest Logan, Tracy
Wheeler, Harry Savage. Ed Mays, Carey
Adams. Harry Stockham. Erie Bailey
The ladies OF Garnet mesa rendered a
reception last Saturday afternoon frou,
. to 5o'clock to the teachers and superin.
| tendent of the public schools. The