The Delta independent., 1908-12-18
Local and Personal.

Chester White and Lester Shock
spent Sunday at Austin.
Mrs DR.. Fairfield returned Sunday
from an extended visit in Denver.
Put your name on the INDEPENDENT
list for l9O9-come early and avoid tn !,
rush.
Remember the High School Senior
Class show at the Opera House tonight,
bar Haven"
We have been having funny, sombre,
gloomy, stormy weather this week
snow and rain.
Walter Singleton returned the first
of this week from trips to Alma, Den
yer and Boulder.
Mrs w. A. Davis and baby left Sur
day for Kansas City, where they will
spend the holidays.
Editor and Mrs. Brewer, of the Sur
face Creek Champion, were down from
Cedaredge Monday.
Mr.. Frank A Marsh left the first of
this week for Globe, Arizona, where
he expects to locate.
Mrs. Gilbert Doughty has been con-
fined to her home the past two weeks
on account of illness.
Mr. N H. Castle has recovered from
his recent severe illness and is able to
be at the realty office agaiu.
Mr.. Joseph Farmer, of the Delta
Brick & Tile Co. was business visitor
at Montrose Friday and Saturday.
From the condition of the roads it
will not be surprising If Santa Claus
has to make his trips with flying
machine.
Ferry boats were in demand in Delta
Wednesday, but there were no Mont
rose girls here, so their shoes were not
available.
Cattle in the Delta valleys and ranges
were reported doing very well up to
the snow Monday night, with greater
than the usual amount of feed.
Most of the dead beats who get away
from Delta-leaving the town for the
towns good-manage in some way to
number the INDEPENDENT among their
victims.
The black-faced jokefest to have
been pulled off Tuesday night by the
Montrose minstrels did not happen.
Don't know any reason except that
there was a SHOW flake on the track
and the special train didn't arrive.
Mr.. J. C. Rowbotham was down the
first of the week and left some hand
some new calanders to remind Delta
people of his excellent hotel at Cedar
edge. Both the hotel and its genial
proprietor are sources of pleasure to
all Deltaites when they visit the thriv-
ing fruit center.
Delta has had so many shows the
past two weeks that it looks like Santa
Claus might possibly be left little in
the lurch. Travelling shows are all
right to a limited extent-after that
they may become a severe drain on
small cities. taking most of their re-
ceipts out of town.
When writing letters it is good
Pioh W ai" Httlt
about Delta county. Be booster in
your letter writing as well as at all
other times. 1t doesn't matter even if
the letter is to your best boy or girl,
he or she will be all the more proud of
your spirit and loyalty to home.
What a community needs in order to
make the greatest progress, is, to be-
gin with, hard. sensible thinking along
practical lines, good planning and hard
work to put the plans in effect. Think
up what is needed-what will benefit
then try to get it. And don't forget
that other places are also thinking and
working and trying.
W. P. Dale. president of the Busi-
ness Mems Association, has fitted up
Office rooms in the corner brick by the
INDEPENDENT office. In place of a
regular secretary the Board will allow
him stenographer to help take care
of correspondence and other office
duties. Miss McCash is at present
installed as above named assistant.
1t is said by those who have visited
the northern section of Colorado that
there promises to be an exodus over
there for Delta next summer. Every
body, they say, talks about Delta as
the coming big town of the Western
Slope, and they want to get into Delta
county. Let them come. They will
have no after regrets.
Ranchmen generally are well pleased
with this winter. They say it looks
more like winter of the right sort at
the right season. Certain it is that the
promise is unusually fine for lots of