The Delta independent., 1908-12-25
Local and PersonaL.

A Watson was in from COalby Wed
nesday.
Whitewater hunters have gone for a
holiday shoot after bear.
Mr.. W. F. Hornsby returned Sunday
from business trip to Denver.
Mr.. Sam Farmer returned Monday
from trips to Nebraska and Iowa
points.
Considerable hay is being marketed,
the first cutting of alfalfa ranging at
about $40 per ton.
The Christmas supply of turkeys
was good at Delta. This is the land
where they grow and get fat.
Delta is keeping up her lick with the
best of Colorado towns, in growth, in
improvements and in enterprise.
Professor Andrews. formerly of the
Delta schools but this term at Walsen-
burg. is here to spend the holidays.
Judge" remarks that the difference
between the quick and the dead is that
the quick succeed in dodging the autos.
Mr.. J. F Sanders, owner of the
Bachelor mine at Ouray, came home
last week for the balance of the winter.
Fireman's Ball Christmas night The
boys who pull the hose carts and put
out the fires are entitled to your pat
ronage.
Something must be wrong. Denver
hasn't had a convention for three or
four days. Maybe it's because of
Christmas
The sugar factory at Grand Junction
will close for the season the last of this
week About 175 men will thus be
thrown out of work.
The INDEPENDENT Is out early this
week. 1t was the only way to avoid
working Christmas day, and it is very
seldom that a newspaper Office gets a
holiday.
C. <. James, the contractor brought
back last week on charge of obtain
ing money by false pretense, was ac-
quilted at his trial and allowed to go
his way.
Teachers and pupils are enjoying the
holidays which will pass with the
following week, then to school rooms
and books again, until late spring ends
the terms.
Ross Conklin is home from Colorado
College for vacation. Misses Ethel
Baer, Gertrude Amsbary and Adaline
Weeks are also home from the College
for vacation.
Mr.. Paul Wilson, of Hotchkiss passed
through Delta Tuesday en-route for
Pueblo, where he went to spend
Christmas. He will return Immediately
after January 1st-
The last of the Christmas shopping
is being done to-day. While the Christ
mas trade has been brisk nearly all
month, the first four days Of this week
were the most exciting.
Mr.. H. J. Baird returned Monday
from the National Horticultural Con-
gress at Council Bluffs, Iowa. He
reports great crowds attracted to the
Delta county fruit exhibit and much
interest awakened.
Mr.. Dean Hubbard and Miss Myrtle
Cole were married at Pleasant Valley
school house, California Mesa, Sunday.
The wedding was public and a large
crowd of friends and relatives of the
bride and groom witnessed the cere-
mony.
Turney Bros, commission merchants
of BRIDGEPORT. Conn, write as follows
about prices there: I'VE are getting
a to s5 per barrel here for apples;
$3.50 to 81. so for oranges and $40 per
ton for cabbages. All stuff in our line
here is very high this fall"
Mr.. T. B. Geer, who visited some
time ago the coast and northwest
states, freely admits that he found no
better section than Delta county, and
this is the statement made by practi-
cally all our people who go out to in
spect different parts of the country.
Bad roads which were expected to
follow the snow and rain of last week
have been largely averted by tight
freezing. over which heavy loads have
beee hauled each day. The rough sur
face has been worn down so that now
fair instead of bad roads are the case.
Mr.. C. w. Cunningham made trips
to Paonia and Hotchkiss this week in
the interest of the INDEPENDENTS
Midwinter Resource Edition, to be
issued sometime in January. Mr.. Cum
ningham will visit other parts of the
county and all courtesies shown and aid