The Delta independent., 1908-06-26
Local and Personal.

Mr.. and Mrs. John Getty were down
from Cedaredge Tuesday.
]. G. A. Simpson, of Redlands Mesa,
was Delta visitor Wednesday.
Protect your home against fire by
Insuring with Stephan & Obert.
Attorney Oswin Rowbotham of
Hotchkiss, has been a Delta visitor
part of this week.
The number of visitors to Delta now
is increasing and will continue to in
crease throughout the season
Mr.. and Mrs. Richart and daughter
Lillian left Monday for Greeley, where
they go to make their future home.
The Board of County Commissioners
will meet the first of July, presumably
not holding regular session until after
the 4th.
Mrs. M. Olson left Wednesday for
Grand Valley where she will join her
husband who has secured a fine ranch
in that valley.
Miss Harrison, the trained nurse who
was here for two weeks in care of Mr..
VIM. Mathers, Sr., left for her home
in Denver Monday.
Miss Una Hogue left Monday for her
home in Salida, after spending several
months with her sister, Mrs John
Rhonemus of Delta.
l.. L Billings, of Guthrie, Okla, ar
rived with his family in Delta on yes
terday's evening S train and expects to
locate here permanently.
The meeting at the court house NJ on
day night was postponed on account of
the death of Findley Duffield, which
occurred at about the hour set for hold
ing the meeting, which will now be on
next Monday night.
Mr.. Riley, of Smith & Riley, Delta,
came home the latter part of last week
from a six-week's vacation spent at
Leadville, Colorado, of which camp he
was an early citizen.
The roses are blooming nicely in Delta
gardens. There are many fine varieties
grown, but not so many as there should
be of this beautiful flower which can
be so easily and so successfully culti-
waited,
Judge Welch went up above Gunnison
for an outing among the trout streams
the first of this week. The latter part
of the wnek he will spend at Pueblo,
attending the State Real Estate con-
vention.
E. L. House, of Rifle, was one of the
first of the Western Slope Congress
delegates to arrive, getting in Wednes-
day. Delegate House wanted little
extra time to look over the country
which is good idea.
The following Delta young people
were at Montrose last week with the
NJ. Z. church society of the Epworth
League; Aultman E. Bullard, Ada
Horton, Minnie Isensee, Lillian Tucker.
Myrtle Meyer and Vernon Ridley.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Stephan, Judge
and Mrs. Dickerson, made trip to
Paonia Monday, in the big Stephan
auto, returning Tuesday. They made
the nine and quarter miles from the
State bridge to Delta in 2S minutes.
We believe there are a greater mum
ber of people in Delta county who have
deposits in banks, than in any county
we ever knew. In this little state
ment there is volumes of argument in
favor of local conditions, as well as in
favor of our citizens as class.
Miss Daisy Hornsby suffered some
contusions and shock that rendered
her unconscious for time, by the
horse she was riding, Monday evening,
falling at the crossing of Main and
Fourth streets. Her escape from more
serious injury was a narrow one.
The strawberry crop of this spring
will mainly be gathered this week and
will fall somewhat short of last year
The average berries are large and of
fine flavor. Most of the shipping has
been done to surrounding mountain
towns. the prices obtained being 81 75
to $500 per crate.
Mr.. NJ. Ziegler. of the Delta Fuel
company, returned last week from an
extended visit through the East. Said
MIR. Ziegler: 'If the people of Delta
county fully understood how much
better they are off and how much better
times are here than in the East, they
would not be slow in giving thanks that
they are residents of Delta county"
C. Hutchison. who, from a poor
locator in Delta county in early days
has become one of the county's wealth