The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1907-10-25
Local and Personal

The hunters are all in, some got veni-
son and some didn't.
Aalt has ice cream and soda water.
Never closes his fountain.
Reserved seats for End. number in
Lecture Course morning at
8 o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Childs arrived
home Sunday after visit of two weeks
in Denver.
Hunters are taking a rest this week.
Deer season over and weather too warm
for ducks.
DR.. A. H. Stockbam of the first Nat
lonal Bank of Delta. has business in
Denver this week.
Mr.. H. H. Wolbert, cashier of the
Delta National Bank, returned Tuesday
from a two-days' field trip.
Most of the grain in the valley has
been thrashed. Some oats have yielded
as high US l25 bushels to the acre.
Range stock will 60 into winter in
good shape and the feed outlook for the
winter months is better than usual.
There is great deal of hay in the
country, both of this years cutting and
old crop. The market outlook ahead is
good.
If you don't feel like writing letter,
send the INDEPENDENT to the people
you wish informed on Delta county re-
sources.
Mr.. and Mrs. Findley Dufiield left for
Denver and tour of the state Sunday,
intending to be absent from two weeks
to . month.
Meet me at the Opera House Monday
night-2nd number in Lecture Course.
''Zwick ey"
The man with big supply Of sunshine.
There is some talk of turkey shoot
for Thanksgiving. The country around
Delta is full of fine turkeys, 80 birds
will be plentiful.
The INDEPENDENT would like to have
more news gatherers in different parts
of the county. II you are willing to
send US in items, write and tell US.
]. Lorenzo Zwickey. the Swiss Cana
dian Artist, will appear at the Opera
House Monday night. Oct. 2sth-2nd
number in Lecture Course.
President Roosevelt, in bagging three
poor little black bear, received more
newspaper notices than all of our local
Nimrods together. That don't seem
quite fair.
The United States produced s94, 373,-
800 in gold last year and s55.s17, 800
fine ounces ofsilver. Colorado produced
. little more than one-fourth Of the
entire sum.
Hear Swickey at the Opera House,
Monday night, Oct. 18th. If you miss
this entertainment, you will be great
loser. 2nd. number in Lecture Course.
Delta is good town with good peo-
pie, fine, healthful climate and pure
water, excellent schools, all the church,
es, good society and good morals. A
splendid place to select for home.
Rev. S. J. Vance of Carthage. Mis-
souri,, has accepted the call to the
Christian church pastorate in Delta and
Is now occupying the field. Mrs. Vance
will arrive soon to join her husband.
Much complaint is heard against the
railroads by shippers, particularly by
merchants, who say they cannot depend
upon the receipt of goods, even from
short distance points, in less time than
weeks, sometimes months.
What kind of man is Riland. Of the
Meeker Review? He says "a woman
is handy thing to have about the
house to swear at when you cut your
self with a razor and don't feel like
blaming it on your own fool SELF"
Zwickey has appeared on more than
20 Chautauqua programs, and the uni
versal verdict is: "His entertainments
are revelations. amusing, instructive
and delightfully."- refreshing" Remem-
ber, at Opera House Monday night,
8 o'clock sharp.
District Judge Shackelford was in
Delta Monday, opening court to confirm
the entry of the water rights adjudica-
tion in Water District No. 4O-Surface
Creek and Tongue Creek. Before ad-
journing he appointed County Surveyor
Curtis commissioner to settle the Cedar
edge boundary.
Although the beet sugar harvest has
been industriously under way for some
time, many of the fields yet show half
of their crop ungathered. The sugar
beet crop of Delta is getting to be
something immense. The fact that
Delta county produces the best sugar