The Delta independent., 1902-12-19
.,Ncws of the Nci8hb0rhood~


From ths 0unAisn News
Work ou tho Taylor park railroad
tunnel will soon be rushing. Crooks 4
Orman have the contract aud expect TO
employ 200 men boring from each side
OF the range above Tin Cup.
J.C. Harris vas up from Lake Fork
Monday and Tuesday. He has fourtsso
mon at work on his contract for gettiag
out 5000 broad gauge ties for the
D. 4 r. G.
From the PaoniA Gssssts.
A Mr.. Dixon is building resideses
just this eide Of Joe Brown on the sids
hill.
Elder Sanderson 10 circulating sub
scription list for his nov church and b
meeting with good success.
A. Pieves has purchased the parspn-
age property from J. A. Rovssrt for
d 200 and will move in town.
Stone is being hauled for the bose
ment ald foundation OF the Brucs
residence.
Eugene Decker il hauling brick Tor
the new houss which he will erect On
his lots shortly.
Frank H. Patton is rubbing out the
signs on the old Curtis Hardware build
ing and will put up one Of his own. As.
Patton intends putting 10 . stock q
gr ,ceries.
Victor Fsldmsn left Sunday for Delta
where he goes TO feed cattle Tor e. j.
Mathews again this winter.
j. W. Brown has his new house CON.
pleted and it is a very comfortable resi-
dence.
The pay car pulled in yesterday and
the railroad boys are corresondinGly
happy.
Geo. r. Slater is putting up a bniId-
ing on his lots which he will use - .
workshop.
Tho Foot Williamson Lumber Co. are
putting up building opposite the depot
lsxSO feet 70 bs used a. an Office snd
warehouse. Later thsy will put up
about seventy -fvs fest Of shedding fos
finishing lunbsF.
Five hundred and forty pieces OF
hagsass. were handed at car depQt dur.
ing the month q November. Pretty
Bood showing for % new q station.
C. N. Hammond has Temporarily in
stallei his ofhcs in the Eruit Exchange
bank.
S. A. Anderson having sold his ranch
has bought six lots in the Rovaart addi-
ton in the east part Of town and will
put up residence soon.
From the Field d Farm.
To keep insects of house plants is by
no means % easy as in greenhouse,
whore they may be fumiga,ed with to-
bacco or with hydrocyanic acid gas. but
little care 10 brushing Of scale insects
With tooth brush and busting the
plants with dalmstian powder will
usually bs found satisfactory. When
plants are infested with the green fly or
aphis the best remedy is either to dip
tho inverted plant 10 4 tub OF soapsuds
or to place the plants under an Inverted
barrel in shed or cut OF doors and
fumigate them with tobacco. This is
done by chipping up common plug
tobacco. a. for loading a pipe. drop a
live coal upon cuptul OF the chips and
place it under tho barrel with the plants
One fumigation 10 not always enough.
but il repeated daily for two or three
days il will prove e6ectual. Asother
important point in caring for house
plants 10 sufficient and judicious
watering.
Barrenness 10 an orchard 10 10 many
cases due to tho natural tendency OF the
varieties, - seme are very shy bearers,
while the Northern Spy and Mammoth
Black Twig arc often condemned for
barrenness from the fact that the trees
are late in coming into bearing. In the
eastern states the apple has odd and
even bearing years. duo to the fact that
that during the bearing years all the
energies OF the trees arc exerted in
developing tho crop Of fruit 90 that no
buds are formed on the fruit spurs for
the next ysar's crop. This is quite
generally the case in old neglected
orchards poorly supplied with plant
food. The bearing year can Be changed
II in any way the tree is prevented from
developing crop Of fruit. a. can be
done BY dsstroying the blossoms or
small fruits, since the trees will then be
able to develop buds for tho next crop
From the Lake City rhonograpA.
Dan Munro returned last night from
trip 10 Delta county.
AL Wood returned from Delta county
Tuesday.
J. 9. Roatcap and family departed for
Delta ooesty Tuesday. intending to
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