The Delta independent., 1907-02-15
Local and Personal

Hoy Bonnet is working in the mills
at Telluride.
! For the very best paint & varnish
see Hunt e. Co.
/ Get the habit of taking your meals
at the Home Cafe.
/ Go to the PORTER -OBERT HDw. Co.
for Farm implements.
. Paint, oil. varnish, jcllite. wall finish
and brushes at Hunt & Co.'S.
/ Editor Verbeck of the Paonia Boost
er was Delta visitor Saturday.
! For Sale: Some nice house furniture.
Enquire of J. W. Edmonds the jeweler.
This is the time to paint your house.
You can get first class paint & oil of
Hunt & Co.
+ Walter Gallup will erect a new dwell.
ing on his lots at the corner of 4th and
Dodge streets.
o. X. Flour sl.OO at the Spot Cash. If.
Genuine Mexican chill at Smiths
Lunch Wagon.
Editor Brewer was down from Cedar
edge the first of the week making COL
lections and attending to other business
matters.
WANTED Hand Laundry and plain
sewing. Call at the Petit house on
Meeker street. Will be called for and
delivered.
w. l.. Holman left on Sunday for
Garden City. Kansas. He made num-
Der of real estate investments while
here and expects to return soon.
No saw dust is used in filling the
big railroad ice house. This is an inno-
walton or at least it was to the writer.
'Tis said when ice is stored in such i'm
mcnse bulk that saw dust is unneces-
sary.
s. Smith, contractor. who has been
doing some work for the ID. & K. G. in
connection with the new switches, left
on Sunday for his home in Salida. Mr..
Smith is chief of the fire department
in that city.
The Presbyterians have new choir
chairs and have ordered the same kind
for their church parlor. also a new
carpet for that room and window
shades. The congregation is in a
nourishing condition.
At the annual meeting of the Fruit
Growers Association G. H. Merchant,
l.. W. Heston, A. l.. Roberts, Weldon
Hammond and Thos. Hester were
elected directors for the ensuing year.
w. II. Garvin was retained for mana
ger.-Paonia Newspaper.
A party of four, consisting of Gus
Schlapp. Messrs. Ault. Conquest, and
Sanders, came up from Delta on Friday
to attend the Elk lodge here. They
went home on Saturday morning. after
having greatly enjoyed their visit with
the herd. Montrose Enterprise.
The Montrose County Medical Society
recently passed a resolution requesting
newspapers of that county not to men
tion names of attending physicians in
cases of child birth or other ordinary
medical and surgical cases. This was
! done at the suggestion of the Colorado
State Medical Society.
No colored population and still It's
said chicken thief is abroad in the
land. One Delta citizen has been miss
ing chickens all winter. They have
disappeared one at time. Others
are complaining. The best remedy this
paper can suggest is load of buck
shot delivered at the proper time and in
the proper place.
/ A fakir worked farmers and ranch
men in the Grand Valley country last
week on a proposition to furnish the
Denver News and Times, together with
a 25 piece set of dishes, all for $3.50
Some one got suspicious. had the party
arrested and at the preliminary hearing
he plead guilty and was bound over to
the district court.
E. c. Teachout recently sold his 100
acre ranch on Bruno's creek to Harry
Stockham and DR.. Porter for S7.6Oo.
He had lived there for 70 years. He
will move to Grand Junction where he
has bought home on Orchard mesa.
MIR. Teachout's sons, George and Bert.
have gone into the billiard and pool
business in that city.
Delta Baptists expect to use their
new church for the first time on Sunday
Feb. "A. Delay in dedicating the edifce
is due to the fact that pews and other