The Delta independent., 1907-07-12
Local and Personal.

987 Montrose people attended the
Ouray celebration.
Palisade shipped nine car loads of
fruit for the week ending July s.
Miss Ollie Garrison returned home
last Saturday from Hotchkiss.
The Grand Junction ball team was
defeated at Fruita on the 4th by a
score of 10 to /.
Pallsade is to have an "Iowa Day"
celebration August l. Senator DeLong
will deliver the address.
A temporary bridge has been built
across the North Fork at Paonia that
will answer all purposes until the new
steel structure is completed.
The Independent Lumber Co. succeeds
the Western Slope Lumber Co. at
Montrose. This makes ten yards for
the Independent IN western Colorado.
Phil Stephans, formerly with the
North Fork Times, passed thru Delta
last Sunday going to Montrose where
he had been summoned as q witness on
land case.
The regular celebration of Iowa Day
will be held on July 18th. At this date
we are unable to state where the cele-
bration will be held but that will be
announced later.-Paonia Newspaper.
Dwight Bennett and wife and Will
Riley and wife came down from Hotch-
kiss Sunday where they had been over
the 4th. The gentlemen are brick
masons working on the Hunt & Co.
building.
Miss Helen L. Sumner of Denver,
was in Delta last week gathering in
formation for the Equal Suffrage
League of New York relative to the
effect, interest in and benefit of woman
suffrage in this state.
Hotchkiss has one case of diphtheris.
A little girl named Helen Lawrence is
the victim. The case has been quaren-
tined and the board of health orders all
public meetings to cease until every
danger of contagion has passed.
A souvenir postal card from Capt.
Winton locates them at Avalon, Santa
Cataline Island. Mrs. w. o. Stevens
and Miss Nellie are with them and he
says the place is tip-top for their crowd.
The Captain reports himself as feeling
pretty good"
M. M. Brokaw and Earl Douglas. of
Hotchkiss, passed thru Delta Sunday
enroute to Pagosa Springs where they
will take the waters. Mrs. Brokaw
came with them to Delta and was
guest at the Silsby home several days
the first of the week. ii
A. S. Tillotson returned from Denver
Saturday, where he had been on busi-
ness and pleasure trip. He spent the
4th among the snow banks on the con-
tinental divide where the Moffit road
crosses the range and they have real
snow banks up there, to.
Frank Graham, son of Arthur Ora
ham, while camping on Terror creek
carelessly kicked gun while lying at
the foot of tree and the piece was
discharged, sending the ball through
his foot. The wound is not dangerous
but Frank will be very quiet for some
days. .-Paonia Newspaper.
We have some Guthrie Center, Iowa,
people living here and they may know
one J. Tracy, formerly of that place.
The fellow jumped $40 board bill at
Palisade last week, was overhauled,
tried, fined including costs $50 and is
laying 1t out in Jail at Grand Junction.
E. S. Butcher passed thru Delta Sum
day enroute to Michigan to visit his
old home. He stops in Chicago to buy
goods for the Stockham Bros. store at
Hotchkiss of which he is the success
full manager. His mother will come
back with him when he returns to
Colorado.
Randolph Williamson, U. S. land
commissioner at Paonia, was in town
Saturday. having driven down from
Cedaredge to take the North Fork
train. He says it is astonishing the
amount of government land people still
find to file on IN this county. During
the past month $500 acres have been
taken up thru this Office.
w. =. Dale and Prof. PAUL are pre-
pairing to conduct some smudging ex-
periments and have secured barrel of
tar for this purpose. Prof. PAUL is in
correspondence with Washington Off
cials regarding the most approved
method and they expect to carry on