The Delta independent., 1906-10-05
Local and Personal

Judge King will go down to Grand
Junction Saturday on court business
and from there he expects to 20 over
to Denver.
High school scholars will find those
new Fountain Pens at the Peoples
Pharmacy right in both quality and
price. s-3l-9-7.
C. w. Cunningham has sold his one
half interest in the livery barn to o. d.
Gilbert. Title of the new firm will be
Hornsbv & Gilbert.
Mesa county papers claim 5000 cars
of fruit will be shipped from that
county this year. The peach shipments
are put at 1000 cars.
Mrs. Chas Maxwell came from Tel
luride Tuesday to be with her sister,
Mrs. Jno. A. Curtis, who is seriously
i'll.
Miss Claire Potts has accepted the
primary department of the Eckert
school and commenced her work Mon
day.
S. P. Home is carrying the thumb of
his left hand in plaster caste, due to
bad cut made with hand axe while
at work at the packing house.
After spending day at the Grand
Junction fair, John Travis went on to
Denver and accompanied Mrs. Travis
home. They arrived Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Boettcher returned
from California Tuesday and Mr.. Boett-
cher is again busy with his telephone
work They report delightful vaca-
ton.
Boys two piece Suits; large assort-
ment; double breasted; attractive win
ter cloth patterns; extra low priced at
sl.5O. 900 and &2. so at RAMSAY Dry
GOODS Co.
According to a Paonia paper there
are 27,452 acres of orchard in Delta
county. of which l6. ITO acres are in full
bearing. If these figures are correct
they should be given much wider pub
licity.
J. p. Norris. r. c. Edwards and r.
Neff returned from the Escalante coun-
try the first of the week, where they
had been deer hunting. They got one
buck, numerous grouse and report
fine time.
In the upper country the Pannell
school is well under way and is IN
charge of Miss Grace Cunningham.
teacher. The Central school opens next
Monday and will be in the efficient
hands of Mr.. and Mrs. Benefiel and
Miss Maud Ziegler.
The Ladies' Aid Society Of the N e.
church will entertain at the home of
Mrs. G. W. Ridley, Thursday after
noon, Oct. 1lth. A cordial invitation
is extended to all. In the evening. Mr..
and Mrs. Ridley will give an ice cream
social for the benefit of the church.
Come and enjoy pleasant evening.
Mrs. Carter. wife of the conductor
who was killed here, had shipped their
household goods on the day Of the acci-
dent to Grand Junction from Gunnison.
Carter had been transferred to this end
of the line. He was a member of the
o. r. T. and the B. of r. T. and these
orders had charge Of the funeral at
Salida.
Mr.. Isaac Thurston stopped off here
Saturday enroute from Grand Junction
to his home in Salida to call on several
friends and see something of Delta and
the surrounding country. He came in
to the INDEPENDENT Office to get few
of our show window apples in order
that he might show Salida people what
fine fruit we grow.
Despite the very favorable comment
of our contemporary last week. we find
many people who we're not carried
away" with the entertainment given
by the Hawthorne Musical Club. Some
features of the program were very good,
others fair, but the cornet solo man
must be classed as bum. We hope
future numbers of the course will prove
more satisfactory.
Alva Champion, former citizen Of
Delta and holding land interests in the
Surface Creek country, stopped off Mon
day while enroute from Goldfeld, New.
to Denver. Mr.. Champion has made
fortune in mining. In the Alaska coun-
try he did well, but met reverses which
were more than recuperated in Nevada
He is reputed to be worth in the neigh