The Delta independent., 1908-06-05

Miss Chasty Jensen is visiting friends
in Delta from Grand Junction this
week.
Gard Corey, Montrose' athlete, has
gone to Telluride to take position in
the Liberty Bell mine
Tom Dewar spent several days in
Austin this week building an addition
to the canning factory.
Mr.. and Mrs Charley Newlin left the
| first of the week for a three months
visit to different points in California.
| Well, it does seem to be windy old
spring If it can only get better after
the election, we'll have siege of it
yet.
Mr.. and Mrs. H L. Hussong of Cedar
City, Utah, visited Rev. and Mrs. S. A.
Hayworth the first of this week. Mrs.
Hussong is sister of Mrs. Hayworth
The school children are loose after
the long siege of the term just closed.
They are bright, happy, noisy lot,
getting much out of life at its present
stage
All crop growth is beginning to push
along as the weather warns up. The
The season has been one of record
beating backwardness, but the hot
weather has got to come in these val
leys very soon.
For SALE-40 acres in North Delta
two miles from town; 20 acres in al
falfa under Hartland Ditch. Place not
cut by river and has buildings. A bar
gain at IS, 900.
WEIGH & MERRILL.
Leonard G. Thompson of Denver,
State secretary of the Christian church
1 passed through Delta on Wednesday on
his way to Paonia. He will return to
Delta and remain over Sunday, speak
in the Christian church at the morning
| service.
Prof. Andrews, of the Delta High
school, will leave in a few days for
Chicago, where he will attend college
during the summer, returning in time
for the opening of school here this fall,
he having been engaged for the next
school year.
Miss New etertained informally last
Saturday evening in honor of her guest,
Mrs. Adah F. Wilson of Denver. Four
tables were employed at Five Hundred
and lunch was served during the even
ing. The National colors were used in
decorating, tiny flags being the appro
pirate favors.
Another week of dead-on-your-f
experience has marked this epoch of
the INDEPENDENTS issue. The fello W
with the big jaw has tried to pilot its
course through the tempest-tossed days
without running on too many shoals
and to hit upon a news item OCCASION
ally or paragraph of interest. The
swelling is going out of his head some
and a coil or two of barbed wire
stretched around the most swelled Sec
tions are about ready to take off. Next
week will probably either be better or
worser.
Yesterday MIR. and Mrs. Peter Mum
dry We're the proud recipi,ants of
number of framed pictures. These
works of art are the gift and work of
their daughter Bertha now attending
Cottey College. Nevada, Mo-, where
she is taking course in Art and Litera-
ture. Her pictures show remarkable
talent, The Gibson Girls and Fruit
pieces being especially good. We pre-
dict successful future for our young
artist. Her many friends will be
pleased to learn that she is expected
home Sunday to spend a well earned
vacation.
Mr.. G. 7. White, who last week
bought the Geer & Clack furniture and
undertaking business and who has a
half page ad. on the fifth page OF this
issue, announcing his Removal Sale. is
thoroughly experienced in the furniture
and undertaking business and is IL
censed embalmer, as is also Mrs.
White. When the new firm gets settled
in their new quarters in the room now
occupied by the Stockham Bros. car
riage repository, they will have one of
the most complete and up -to-date fur
niture and undertaking establishments 5
in Colorado.
Sunday was another windy day The
worst this spring. and the O. h. saws
this spring has been the windiest in
the history of Delta. The big cotton
wood trees over town were writhed and
twisted until great limbs we're broken
and cast to the ground One of the
! giants which stood at the corner of