The Delta independent., 1907-07-05
Local and Personal.

Mrs. Connors will build six room
house on lots near the depot.
Fresh paint makes the Jack Gale
residence look neat and attractive.
Miss Eta Jordan left for Los Ange-
les, Calf, Tuesday to visit her sister.
The Church of God congregation is
holding tent camp meeting on Garnet
mesa this week.
Earl Gheen has returned to Columbus,
Ohio, after a pleasant visit with home
folks and friends.
For SALE-A limited number of
shares of Leon Lake reservoir stock.
Call on Porter Plumb.
G. N. Hastings and wife leave next
week for the Horsefiy country for a
two or three weeks outing.
Want to trade Michigan land for
Delta property. What have you got?
Call at Attorney Joe Boyd's Office,
Delta, Colo.
G. N. Hastings is going on an outing
and takes this method of notifying all
who have shoes at his shop to get them
before he closes up.
Mrs. D. A. Butler was a welcome
caller Tuesday to have the paper sent
as a regular visitor to her home. The
family live two miles up the Gunnison.
Mrs. A. D. Brown arrived Tuesday
to visit Delta friends. Mrs. Brown
was q former teacher here and served
two years as county superintendent.
Miss Lulu Hood has arrived from
Chicago to spend three months resting.
Miss Hood is friend of Prof. and Mrs.
Dana and is trained nurse by profess
sion.
Losr-A gold and hair brooche
Thursday night at Presbyterian church
or on the way home one mile east of
town. Please return to this office or to
Evangeline Loomis.
J. J. Holland and wife of Denver
we're visitors from Wednesday of last
week until Sunday at the A. B. Van
Dyke home near Eckert. Mr.. Hall is q
brother of Mrs. Van Dyke.
VIM. Melcher has been elected prin.
cipal of the Cedaredge school. Mr..
Melcher is the Hotchkiss teacher who
had some trouble with one of his pupils
last spring and the matter was aired in
justice court.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard G. Fletcher
returned to Grand Junction yesterday.
after an extended honeymoon trip, and
Immediately took possession of the p.
C. Isbel home on White avenue Grand
Junction News.
W ilbur Kuhnley, son of Mr.. and Mrs
J. W. Kuhnley, Of North Delta. is sick
with typhoid fever. The disease is
running q regular course. but the pa
tient seems to be getting along ss well
As could be expected.
Mrs. G. A. Fowler, daughter of Elder
and Mrs. c. G. States, has been very
i'll with appendicitis. She is being
treated by DR.. Bolten Of Cedaredge.
who thinks the crisis is now passed and
that an operation will not be necessary.
Gus Schlap, formerly with the d. &
r. G. at this station. was among the
excursionists Sunday. Gus is now at
Delta and a booster for that thrifty
agricultural locality. Last week he
shipped crate of Delta strawberries
out to the big land convention at Den
yer, every berry weighing an ounce. -
Ouray Plaindealer.
H. J. Baird starts his professional
card in this issue of the INDEPENDENT.
Mr.. Baird came to Delta from Malvern.
Iowa, and has been officing with Travis
& Castle until rooms in the Hillman
building are ready for occupancy. MIR.
Baird is q lawyer. He left lucrative
practice in Iowa, but is building very
good business here and is pleased with
his new location.
Auctioneer w. A. Davis has bills out
for the regular monthly sale to begin
at 10 a. m. tomorrow, July 6. A piano.
also horses, cows, wagons, buggies,
harness, household goods and other
articles will be disposed of. Mr.. Davis
will sell anything you turn over to him
for that purpose prior to the sale. The
sales are held regularly on the first
Saturday of each month.