The Delta independent., 1907-09-13
Local and Personal

the Montrose Enterprise, were down
TO the Fair yesterday.
Mr.. VIM. Davisson and Miss Madge
Vogel of Paonia were united in mar
riage in Delta, Tuesday, by Justice
Fairlamb.
LosT-W ednesday, Fair week-an
orange and white Setter bitch, orange
ears, spots on body. had spike collar on.
Liberal reward for information left at
Seaton's Drug Store.
w. H. BYRD.
A dissatisfied benedict has recently
written the following ''jokelet' for a
humorous paper: 'In the beginning
God made the world, then rested.
| Afterwards he made man, then rested
again. Then he made woman and since
that time neither God nor man has had
any rest
Mr.. and Mrs. Bond were visiting
friends in Delta this week from Den
yer. Mrs. Bond, formerly Miss Eva
Bertolin, was a teacher at Delta for
number of years. While in Delta this
week they were the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Singleton.
Those who own vacant lots in Delta
should take every opportunity to i'm
prove them. Build on them if you are
able. for there is steady demand for
houses. But, if you can't build on
them, clean them up: plow them up and
get them in grain or lawns. This will
increase their value and m axe the town
look better.
Read the INDEPENDENT, word by
word, then you will know what is in it.
1t takes one mans time to get it up,
with all the help he can have from the
good and helpful people, and he is then
kept on the jump. Naturally he does
not then like to be asked to furnish
diagram with the paper, explaining
where each item can be found. All
matter is alive. You will miss some
thing by skimming over it.
The school children and pupils of the
High School have had two afternoons
to attend the fair this week, it being
consideration task imposed that each
should write an account of what was
seen. these accounts to be submitted to
the pupils teacher and the best of them
to be reviewed by the superintendent.
This helps to make their visit to the
fair one of educational help and closer
and more careful inspection. and is an
idea of modern instructive merit.
Delta has some pretty tall men. One
of them was standing on a sidewalk the
other day and group of tourists in
front of the INDEPENDENT building
were gazing with delight down Main
street. Suddenly one of them ex-
claimed: That is the first defect |
have noticed. One of the telephone
poles down there is three feet out of
line Just then the tall man moved
and the tourist rubbed his eyes in
dazed way. felt of the empty bottle in
his hip pocket. then started on brisk
walk for the W c. 7. U.
Our old friend. j. H. HALEY. who has
been identified with the sheep business
on the Western slope of Colorado for
the last twenty-five years. is now we'll
established at Oakland. Oregon. He
and his former foreman, George Han.
have bought a l.7oO-acre farm and
stocked it with pure bred Oxford Down
and Lincoln sheep and shorthorn cattle.
1t is their intention to supply that
section with blooded stock. They have
recently shipped in two Oxford rams
from England, the remainder being
Canadian bred stock. Field & Farm.
Delta has charms which seem ire
sistable to its inhabitants. Now aud
then the fever strikes some resident to
try change. but they come back. and
each one returning has the same little
speech, not grudgingly recited but said
with a happy smile: Delta is plenty
good enough for me-" One lady related
on this subject yesterday: ''We thought
last spring that we would like to sell
our property here, but we since took
trip to Iowa and are now back. con-
vinced that there is no other place in
all the world as nice as Delta, and our
property is not for sale" The forego-
ing statement was made to would-be-
purchaser of one of Delta's beautiful
houses. These short, fact sermons are
the best boom articles that can be
printed.