The Delta independent., 1907-11-22

Remember that Saturday, December
7th will be regular monthly auction day
in Delta
At the residence OF the brides par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Gilbert. in
Alamosa, November Goth, occurred the
wedding of Mr., VIM. L. Holman of
Delta and Miss Vera May Gilbert of
Alamosa. At home in Delta after De-
eember 18th.
G. W. Umbrell, formerly of Delta,
died November 18th. at Bellingham,
Washington, of typhoid fever. Mr..
Umbrell was member of the l. o. o.
F. and Modern Wocdmen lodges of
Delta, in which later order he carried
q, 900 insurance. He has brother
living in North Delta and was person.
ally very well known here.
Prof. Bennett, potato expert from
the Agricultural College. visited Delta
the first of this week to investigate the
trouble Mr.. Hutchinson experienced
this year with his spud crop on his
upper Gunnison valley farm. He found
the chief difficulty to be lack of rota-
ton in cropping, Mr.. Hutchinson's
ground having been successfully plant
Cd 10 potatoes for ten years.
Mr.. A. Watson was in Wednesday
from Coalby, where he has now opened
up good commercial coal supplies. Mr.
Watson, though a comparatively new
man in Delta county, at the fair in
September was awarded premiums for
4 best farm products for one man,
pesnium on grain and grasses and on
taA)e beets, proving that Williams
CssckShas some very good soil.
Rev. rockingham breaches next
Sunday at Glenwood Springs and the
following Sunday at Grand Junction.
On December lst he will deliver his
lecture, William the Silent. at Grand
Junction. DR.. rockingham will. by
order of the Presbytery, declare the
pulpits of both Glenwooi Springs and
Grand Junction vacant, their pastors
having resigned. Rev. B. C. Rice was
pastor at Glenwood and j. E. Weir a
Grand Junction.
Lieutenant Governor Harper has been
extended an invitation to be present
and deliver an address before the next
monthly meeting of the Delta Business
Mems Assn. to be held the evening of
Monday. Dec. 2. 1t is known that he
will accept provided no unforeseen con-
tingency arises to prevent. The lieu
tenant governor is said to be pleasing
and forceful speaker and the business
men anticipate a profitable meeting
with Mr.. Harper as their guest.
Mr.. l. M. Welch, uncle of Judge NJ.
r. Welch, is here from Salem. Oregon
to spend Thanksgiving. Mr.. and Mrs.
c. E. Mcconnell will arrive today from
Turner, Kansas, Mrs. Mcconnell being
an aunt OF Judge Welch. With these,
James L. Welch of Delta county, the
Judges father, will comprise partial
family reunion. which it was hoped,
but did not prove possible, to make a
reunion of the entire family, of whom
there were six children of the older !
generation, four of whom are now past |
seventy and another near his 10th an
nversary.
X. D. Blair of Lewiston, idaho, who
was. we understand. formerly news
paper man of Delta. writes a letter to
the 1NDEPENDENT on the subject of
beet sugar factory. suggesting that the
people of Delta county could easily
form a cooperative association strong
enough to secure factory; that their
personal pledges for stock could be is |
sued mainly in note form and that these |
pledges could be redeemed from the |.
dividends which would afterwards ac-
crue in profits from the manufactured |
sugar. Mr.. Blair states that factory
is in full operation at his place, doing a
large business and meeting all the re-
quirements of beet growers.