The Delta independent., 1906-09-14
Local and Personal
School Supplies at HOwARDs.

Writing paper by the quire. box or
pound at Peoples Pharmacy.
DR.. Porter's baby Little Bill'' has
been quite seriously sick this week.
M. A. Davis, of Gunnison, expects
to locate in the Surface Creek country
Mems Suits $3.50 up at HowARDs.
Boys " sl.OO "
F. J. Lees is able to be about town
after three weeks seige of sickness.
Duck season opened Monday the 10th.
Our weather has not been very ducksh
for some time.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. E. Lamb have taken
the johnson place adjoining W. H.
Chiles property, for the winter.
Mrs. A. B. Chatburn comes this week
from Canon City to join her husband.
They have taken rooms with Mrs.
Blair.
N. P. Madsen has moved his family
to Delta from Redland's Mesa for the
winter that his children may attend
school.
Chester Harding has returned to
Delta to attend school. He has had
charge of the Seaton drug store at
Cedaredge and is succeeded by Charles
Seaton.
Mr.. and Mrs G. w. Ridley enter
tanned Rev. and Mrs. Grim. and son
Ross, at luncheon and dinner last Thurs
day. the event being in honor Of his
return to this pastorate.
Miss johnson, republican candidate
for county superintendent, accompa-
MED by her summer guest, Miss Nc
Fadden, were down from Cedaredge
yesterday spending the day.
T. T. Millhouse, sec'y. and treas. of
the Colorado Realty & Com. Co., left
Thursday for Iowa for the purpose of
bringing an excursion of prospective
land buyers to Delta county.
Editor Watts went over to Denver
with his son and saw the young man
safely located as student in Reads
Students Art School. Mr. Watts re-
turned home Tuesday evening.
To hear DR.. barley tell about the
fruit he is getting to eat down at Delta
makes fellow feel like he wouldn't
care if they would let him wander
about down there. .-Salida Herald.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. F. Stewart left last
week for Portland, Oregon. where they
will make their future home. MIR.
Stewart will engage in the general
mercantile business. He has had large
experience and will undoubtedly sue
ceed.
Prof. Harding has rented house on
Columbia street and is comfortably sit
uated. Mrs. Harding and their daugh-
ter came last Friday from Indiana.
We trust that Delta will prove pleas
ing place of residence to these estim-
able people.
A. C. E. Bridges of Baxter Springs,
Kans. has been in Delta the past week
looking for a chicken ranch or suita-
BILE location for one. He has prepared
himself for the Presbyterian ministry
but is compelled to give it up on account
of his health.
A. w. Chipperfield is here from Pao-
MIA to work on the Baptist church. His
wife is paying him visit but will soon
return to Beatrice, Neb., their home.
They expect to locate here permanently
as soon as their Nebraska holdings can
be disposed of.
J. E. Davis, a beet man, who has
charge of thirty acres on Capt. Win
toms farm, puts the yield at from 1S to
q tons per acre. Mr.. Davis came from
the Longmont-Loveland district and
he says Delta county beets average
better than on the eastern slope.
At the Ben Lowe home on California
Mesa at 10 O'Clock a. m. Saturday,
Sept. 8, Rev. W. S. Grim married John
Carver and Miss Fay Maupin. The
bride is daughter of one of Delta
county's leading cattle men while the
groom is stock man residing in the
mountain country west of Delta.
The INDEPENDENT is indebted to W.
E. Obert for fine box of peaches from
his Garnet Mesa ranch. He has fifty
acres Of that good soil and he knows
what it is and appreciates what to ex-
pect from it in the future. He saw
Garnet Mesa before the best orchards
there were thought of. The old timers
have waited long and patiently, but they
are now about to come into their own