The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1907-09-27

has made entomology the subject of
special study.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Mower are back
from the east where they spent the
summer.
St. Luke's Guild will hold basket
social at L. o. o. F. hall on Friday
evening. Oct. 5th. Everyone invited.
One fare for round trip over the
Denver & Rio Grande to Aspen and re-
turn, account Tri-County Fair Oct. lst-
4th, 1907. Call on D. & r. G. agent
for particulars. 1t
Two young bob cats are attracting a
great deal of attention in the window
of the Surface Creek Realty Co. They
were captured in the vicinity of Cedar
edge and are interesting specimens.
Local cattlemen are off to the hills
this week on the annual roundup.
Cattle are good price, the range has
been splendid all season and the cattle
mans cup of joy is full to overflowing.
DR.. Arthur Blachley and wife have
gone to Chicago where the doctor will
take postgraduate course at Chicago
University. They spent very pleasant
and happy summer at the home of the
Doctors mother on Garnet mesa.
Our large and varied assortment 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
A. NJ. Anderson, of the INDEPEHD-
ENT, is at Alma this week making final
disposition of a paper he owns at that
place and preparing to bring his family
to Delta. He expects to return by the
first part of next week. Mr.. Anderson
has bought the w. R. johnson residence
property on Dodge street for consid-
GRAFTON of $500.
r. B. Pender of st. Louis and G. W.
Duffield of Denver were in Delta We'd
nesday calling on local druggists. Both
of these gentlemen remarked the many
evidences of prosperity and progress
about the town and said that wherever
they went they heard of Delta's ad-
vancement and the great activity in
Delta county real estate.
The Misses Lucy and Ruth Spicer
drove to the home of Miss Cornelia
johnson above Cedaredge last Friday
evening. Saturday morning they ac-
companied party of Miss Johnson's
Cedaredge friends to the lakes on Grand
mesa where they spent delightful day
picnicing and trying to fish. The party
returned to Miss Johnson's home by
moonlight the same evening.
Mr.. l.. S. Angel, who arrived in Delta
with his family two weeks ago from
Spencer, Nebraska, will. with W. R.
johnson, erect model brick block i'm
mediately south Of the new model block
just being completed. Mr.. Angel has
invested largely in farm lands, also, in
the vicinity of Delta He is Of the solid
class of citizens whom Delta is glad to
gain, and she is getting them at the
expense of less favored localities.
T.. X. Seaton and family returned
home Wednesday afternoon from trip
to Denver and Ft. Collins. AT Fort
Collins they witnessed a Cattle men 3
Day program given before an audience
OF 5000 people and Thad says our peO-
pie would have turned their backs on
such an exhibition in disgust. Cowboys
who can't catch calf in less than six
throws of the rope are considered punk
"punchers" by the president of the
Delta Business Mems Assn.
w. G. Barron, the new pastor of the
M. E. church, preached his first sermon
to large congregation last Sunday
morning. Mr., Barron comes from La
Junta and has met with cordial recep-
ton in Delta. He has already caught
the boosting spirit, so prevalent in this
community, and in his opening remarks
last Sunday morning paid graceful
compliment to the optimism of this
community and the good water Delta
has for municipal purposes.
J. II. Brown and wife of Paris, Ill. i,
arrived in Delta last Friday and left on
Tuesday. They own LAT acres of new
land on Garnet mesa and expect to
make it their home after the Gunnison
tunnel is completed. They were accom-
panied by Mr.. Levi Wilkinson of Paris
and E. G. johnson of Gondola, ILL.,. j,
these gentlemen making the trip to
look at the country from an investment