The Delta independent., 1907-04-12
Local and Personal

Hoard OF trustees OF tne State Normal
School.
Mr.. Sweitzer says the season is three
weeks in advance of the average. This
being true there is little danger of
further frost.
Frank Marshall has bought the brick
house on the northeast corner of Meek.
er and 6th. Mr.. Marshall will probably
move his family to Delta from Cedar
mesa.
w. II. Bowden has sold his North
Delta home comprising one acre to Mr..
Wagner for 81 200. The new owner
gets possession June LIST. Mr.. Bowden
contcmplates going to Washington.
b. p. Smith has arrived from the
east with his family and they are now
comfortably settled in their home on
Meeker street. Mr.. Smith contem-
plates building house that will better
meet his requirements. during the
summer.
Judge King and George Hider went
to Gunnison Monday to appear in the
case of Hider against Gunnison county,
it being an action to recover 81 200
water commissioner bill which that
county refuses to pay. The case is
set for next Wednesday the 18th.
Pews for the new Baptist church
nave arrived and are in place for use
at the regular services next Sunday.
They give the buildings interior
finished appearance and add much to
its attractiveness. The dedicatory
ceremonies are to take place, we be-
!ieve, next month.
Rudolph Paulus will start next Mon
day for Pool, in Routt county, near
which place he has homestead. He
will remain there until late this fall.
Mr.. Paulus says Delta is the best place
in the world to live, and he intends to
remain here permanently after he has
proved up on his Routt county land.
Some people are inclined to attempt
to block Delta progress on account of
the result of the recent election. This
is an unreasonable and mistaken policy
All should acquiesce in the will of
the majority. What is best is matter
of widely different opinions. Let every
body Keep right on boosting for Delta.
II. f. Poundstone has the contract
to put up temporary church building
for the Christian denomination. Work
will begin at once. This building will
be used for church purposes only tenn
porarily and when the congregation is
ready to erect a permanent house o;
worship will become the parsonage for
their pastor.
Jay Gillette reports a fine prosp ect
for fruit from his orchard in the upper
Gunnison valley. He told us the num-
Der of boxes he will expect to get but
it was too big to remember. MIR. Gil
lette has in Is acres OF sugar beets and
he figures on needing some help this
fall when it comes to caring for both
the fruit and beet crop.
George w. Bruce, who has charge of
the large realty holdings purchased last
summer by the Missouri syndicate
which he represents, is in Delta accom-
panied by Mrs. Bruch and they expect
to make their permanent home here.
The syndicate will improve its proper
ties and ultimately divide the land into
ten and twenty acre tracts.
Judge Baxter was down from Paonia
the first of this week looking after
some cases in county court and honored
this office with call Monday evening.
Mr.. Baxter is native of Iowa and 80
IS the writer, consequently we got
acquainted right away. He is the
Iowa kind of Republican too and that
means all wool, if you never knew be-
fore.
Prof. Finley, of Colorado College,
visited Delta last Saturday and was
rendered reception at the home of
DR.. and Mrs. rockingham by patrons
of the school that evening. Between
30 and 40 guests were present to meet
the professor and listen to a brief ad-
dress which he delivered. The recep-
tion took place between the hours of 8
and 1890 p. m. and proved to be
delightful affair.
Work on the big addition in the east
part of town has commenced. An eight
inch tile is being run from the foot of
Garnet mesa on 9Th street to connect
with the cement tile drain which the
town is now laying. The town also has
force of men at work enlarging the