The Delta independent., 1908-01-17
Local and Personal.

Regular meeting of Eastern Star
Monday night at 7:3O.
Judge M. R. Welch had business in
Montrose the first of this week.
Rev Douglas filled his regular ap-
pointment at Hotchkiss last evening.
H. w. Bull, prominent citizen and
old timer of Eckert, was in Delta Thurs
day.
The Delta churches appear to be do
ing well, prospering and growing in
membership.
! Mr.. j. F. Sanders came home from
his mine at Ouray Wednesday and is on
4, the sick list
/ John Drunken, we'll known in Mont
rose, died January 5th, of asceptic
tonsilitis, aged 81.
Mr.. R. w. Curtis, prominent citizen
of Delta county, has been in town from
Paonia this week.
Montrose is complaining of its water.
Has bad taste and unpleasant odor,
the local papers say.
Mrs Adah Wilson requests that her
INDEPENDENT be changed from Denver
to Brownsville, Texas
Mr.. Charles Vaun has moved to Delta
from Paonia and will follow his busi-
ness of contracting and building here.
The Semi miannual report of the finan-
cial condition of Delta county is pub
lished in this issue of the INDEPENDENT.
Prof. Brandenburg, the State Com
mercial Associations chief booster,
was a Delta visitor Wednesday and
Thursday.
F. T. Okamoto has opened up an office
in rooms II and Is Hillman block. He
will contract labor for sugar beet fields,
farms, bitches, etc.
The ladies of the Christian church
will hold a coffee social at the home of
Mrs. John Travis, Wednesday after
noon, January 22nd.
David Anderson. supervisor of the
Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve, pub
fishes notice for grazing permits to be
applied for. for 1908, in this paper.
The wedding epidemic which accom-
panied the holidays is somewhat SUBJ
siding. Almost sufficiently for the
matrimonial quarantine to be raised.
Chester A. Cooper has in view an en-
craving plant for Delta and the West
ern Slope. A good enterprise and one
we hope will be installed and prove a
success.
Harold Malcolm Higgins arrived Janu-
ary 18th, 1908, at the residence of Mr..
and Mrs. M. j. Higgins. Teddy
bears are not the only things kept at
the Ramsay store.
Mr.. A. H. Davis, of the Grand juno
tion Herald. was Delta visitor We'd
nesday. Mr. Davis has also bought the
Fruit Grower and will move its publi-
cation place to Grand Junction.
Mr.. Charles w. Campbell left Delta
Wednesday for Yuma. Arizona, where
he goes for health benefits. Mr. Camp
bell contracted for weekly visits from
the INDEPENDENT before going.
Miss Emmons, who occupied a posi-
ton in Hillman's store the past year,
returned to her home in Denver Tues
day. While here she made many warm
friends who regret her departure.
Messrs. Brandeburg-father and son
of Montrose, will move to Delta and
open a second hand store in the Scoaeld
building. which they have leased for
year. They will be here with their
goods in two or three weeks.
The membership of the NJ. E. church
is growing. Twenty have identified
themselves with the church since Con-
ference and others will soon follow.
Congregations tax the seating capacity
of both auditorium and Sunday school
room.
Bishop Knight delivered an interest
ing discourse at the Episcopal church
Wednesday night, to large and APP
preciative audience, his theme being:
What Doest Thou Here. Elijah?"
The Bishop talked interestedly on his
church work and was much liked by his
audience.
]. f. Mathews, of Delta, Iowa, who
has been visiting his brother, H. E.
Mathews of Delta, Colorado for the
past week, returned home Wednesday.
Mr.. Mathews is in the lumber business
in Iowa. He speakes very highly of
Delta county. expressing the belief
that it has wonderful future.
John ID. koea, mentioned last week
as having been arrested as insane by
the sheriff of Montrose, is to be tried
for his sanity rs there seams To he n