The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1907-08-16
Local and Personal

L. w. Neff left for Ft. Collins last
Friday.
Rev. Grim delivers his Ben Hurr
lecture at Cedaredge tonight.
M. E. Watts returned from Denver
Tuesday afternoon where he has been
since last fall attending the Read Art
School.
Railroad ticket to Chicago for sale;
good until Aug. 81. Description, short,
stout lady of dark complexion. Inquire
at this office.
Miss Ruth McCready was Wednes-
day passenger for Ridgeway after spend
ing two months with her grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. McCready.
Amos Williams from Chicago, and
Miss. Eva Carton from Caney, Kansas,
arrived here Monday for short visit
with their uncle, Hiram w. Williams.
Rev. E. J. Harlow has rendered his
resignation as pastor of the Christian
church. He and Mrs. Harlow will
leave for Pasadena, California, the last
of August.
T. A. Hazelett is here from Guthrie
Center visiting at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. L. A. Dowd on Garnet mesa. He
is looking at the country with a view
to locating.
Joe Newman will be at the opera
house Sept. 4. MIR. Newman had one
of the best shows seen here last year.
The Kempton Komedy Ko. have secured
dates for fair week.
WANTED:-By respectable young
woman, position as housekeeper in
widower's home, preferably in Delta,
but would go any where in the valley.
References given. Address
MRS. C. M. HAWKINS, Salida, Colo.
W. L. Holman returned to Delta
Tuesday. He has been in the San Louis
valley recently. Mr.. Holman calls Delta
home and says he is glad to get back.
He was here nearly all of last winter
and invested in considerable real estate.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Wolbert, Mrs
J. Z. Hillman and E. H. Van De Ven
ter are attending the X. P. and the
Rathbone Sisters grand lodge at Fort
Collins this week. Mr.. Wolbert is one
of the grand officers, being Grand Outer
Guard, to which position he was elected
year ago.
Judge King will be a candidate for
lay delegate to the General Conference
of the Methodist church to be held at
Baltimore, Md, next May, before the
District Conference in Grand Junction
next month. The chances for his elec-
tion are considered favorable. There
will be four lay delegates from Colorado.
We heard on the street the other deg
of man who claimed he was too poor
to take his home paper, says an ex-
change, but all the same he read no.
tice in one of the mail order journals
telling how to prevent horse from
SOLDERING and sent $1.E0 for the recipe.
When the information came it said:
Teach your horse how to spit"
L. S. Wheeler. a citizen of Ridgeway
who has been reading the INDEPENDENT
for several months, has decided to To-
cate here and buys the Bowden property
in North Delta, paying $1,000. Mr..
Wheeler will bring his household goods
on at once. He says we will get good
crowd of visitors from Ridgway next
month on account of the Veterans
Reunion and Delta County Fair.
J. P. Johnson left for Giles, Texas,
Tuesday to join Mrs. Johnson who has
been there several months and at which
place they expect to make their future
home. The family have been residents
of Delta seventeen years and Mr..
johnson seemed reluctant to leave.
The daughter, Miss Mamie, is engaged
to teach in the Russell Gulch district
between Idaho Springs and Central
City and she will remain to fulfill this
contract. John, the son who recently
returned from the west, will attend