The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1907-09-20
manent feature of all Fairs held at

manent feature of all Fairs held at
Delta.
If you want your chickens to lay
and your horses to work buy your feed
from Hammond & Harrington.
E. H. rockingham, of Washington.
d. c., who has been visiting his broth
er, DR.. rockingham of Delta left
Wednesday on business trip to Dur
angO.
Miss Martin, of Denver, has taken
the position of stenographer for Attor-
ney Fairlamb. Miss Ruby Turner. who
has filled the position faithfully for the
past three years, resigned because OF
i'll health.
Mrs. Wheelock's father and mother,
Mr.. and Mrs. c. T. Webb. of Lyndon,
Illinois, and brother. Attorney G. A.
Webb, of Burlington. Iowa, are visiting
in Delta this week. Attorney Webb is
en-route to Crescent City, la.
Fishing is said to be getting better in
the lakes and streams where trout
peer out, glance and glimmer and SHIN
mer about" and the Isaac WIS are
more happy than they were during the
spawning season of few weeks back.
There are few if any better brick
plants than the one at Delta. Here
pressed brick are made from the famous
shale that has no equal as brick mate
rial. These are burned to red and white
colors, and show beautiful finish in
buildings.
By glancing over all the pages of the
INDEPENDENT the intelligent reader
can hardly fail to be impressed with
the large amount of home news and
good resource matter. This, it will be
the management effort, to increase,
week by week.
Many people have bought property in
this county who are coming to make
their homes here next spring. A great
number of them would be here now but
for the fact that they could not get
houses to live in. Most of them will
build their own houses.
The fruit shipments are fair, consid-
ering the off year, and the quality of
much of the fruit raised is very fine.
Potatoes, vegetables generally and
melons. are coming into market in
quan tity. A good many crates of can
taloupes are being shipped out.
The Rev. W. Taylor Douglas. the
new Rector of St. Luke's Episcopal
church, is expected in Delta on Friday,
Sept. goth, and will hold services on
Sunday the 22nd, inst. Mr.. Douglas
comes from Ferndale, California, where
his work has been very successful.
Our large and varied assor tment of
watches. emblem goods. silverware,
cut glass and jewelry affords you an
opportunity to select any thing you
desire in the jewelry line and at the
right price.
F. c. HELT, The Jeweler.
Strawberry raising in Delta county
is well worth investigating. 1t is one
of the best paying crops and comes at
time when markets are good and ship
ping not crowded or interfered with.
Train load lots of these luscious berries
will be going from Delta in few years.
Mr.. T. Neal is here this week from
Cherokee, Iowa, visiting F. H. McCon-
nell and Thomas Dewar. Incidentally
Mr.. Neal bought 140 acres of land five
miles south of Delta last spring of the
Fitzgerald Dermody Co, without see
ing it He came out to look at his land
and is more than pleased with his bar
gain.
The Grand Junction News has the
information that the contestants against
the Redlands Irrigation company have
quit, giving up the contest as bad
job. The names of the principal con-
testants we're: Guy " Sternberg,
William Dittman. Leon J. Chapman,
Frank Gentry, Sherman W. Moody and
George L. Greer.