The Delta independent., 1906-09-28
Local and Personal

first OF the week on business.
Boys suits sl.OO up. Mems suits
81. Soup at HowARD's.
A baby girl arrived yesterday at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Fowles.
BoRN-To Mr.. and Mrs. H. X. Correll,
yesterday, daughter.
Schuttler and Studebaker wagons just
received. HUNT & Co.
Mrs. Earnest Shafer has been granted
divorce by Judge Dickerson's court.
100 tickets were sold from Delta to
Montrose on the day of the excursion.
Will Stephens came home from Colo
RADIO Springs sick and is now at the
home of his parents very Ill with ty-
phoid fever.
w G. Cook will entertain Delta
physicians at his home tonight in honor
of his brother, DR.. Cook, and DR..
Follansbee, of Cleveland, Ohio.
Druggist Seaton has been quite i'll
this week, being confined to his home.
He is reported much better this morning.
NV. E. Obert furnished the cantalours
that won sweepstakes at the state fair.
Like lots of other good things they
were grown on Garnet Mesa
The Greeley district potatoe crop is
reported short and will not average
over 40 to 60 per cent, due to blight.
Spuds in the eastern states are also
said to be light yield this year. Pros
pect for good prices are therefore
bright.
Mrs. H. H. Ingersoll suffered the ex-
treme misfortune of breaking her right
leg above the knee last Saturday. The
fracture was set promptly and despite
her advanced years the patient seems
to be getting along nicely.
J. P. Kernohan has sold 1850 worth
of potatoes already and has some left
which he is holding for higher prices.
OFF of seven acres he realizes an annual
income of from $500 to 500 and is only
getting things started. Delta county
soil cannot be beat.
L F. Boettcher is expected back from
California about the first of October.
J. w. Nutter who has been taking his
place as local manager for the Col
orado Telephone Co. and who has made
many friends in Delta, will be trans
ferred to Montrose.
DR.. Gibbs represented Delta lodge
No. 62, at the Masonic grand lodge in
Denver last week. The Doctor is feeling
better and after few weeks more in
the Surface Creek country he hopes to
return to Delta and resume his practice.
We understand will made by George
E. Blake has been found and that the
entire estate is given to twin sister
living in Illinois. A brother Of the late
Mr.. Blake has been here this week look
ing after matters connected with the
estate.
Two pages of the Sunday Pueblo
Chieftain magazine section was devoted
to Delta county. The matter and cuts
used were taken from the booklet re-
Gently issued advertising this county.
Publicity is what we need and the
more we get the quicker and greater
will be our development.
Porter Plumb says he does not know
of many places on the earth's surface
where a man can take ten acres of
undeveloped land, get fair living off
of it from the start and make it worth
$1O, 900 within ten years. Mr.. Plumb
says this can be done here and there is
an abundance of Testimony to back him
in the statement. Talk about the op-
portunities of our dads. 1t is safe to
say they never had an opportunity like
the above.
J. C. Roberts sold his place on Garnet
Mesa and moved to upper Tongue creek,
one and fourth mile west of Eckert.
last January. He had occasion to be on
Garnet Mesa recently and was sur
prised to note the number Of new
houses in course of erection and other
improvements that are under way. He
counted eight within a small radius.
Mr.. Roberts says he is pleased to see
the Garnet Mesa forging to the front
80 rapidly, that he is not bit jealous
and is quite we'll satisfied with the place
he has. 1t consists of 1l9 acres. nine
in orchard, sixty-five in hay, fifteen of
plow ground and the balance in pasture
land. His health has not been extra
good this summer, but is somewhat i'm
proved since the weather became cooler.