The Delta independent., 1908-07-24
Local and Personal.

this week.
DR.. Miller was in town yesterday
from his orchard ranch at Austin.
Ben Thurman left Thursday for
Montrose, where he has position in a
restaurant.
The delivery horse of w. A. Davis
ran away Tuesday but failed to wreck
the partable spring seat.
The INDEPENDENT editor and H. w.
Pratt nearly cleaned out the trout in
Cuticura canon last Saturday.
Mr.. Pierson, of California Mesa,
whose house burned on the 4th of July,
is reported seriously i'll.
Is there panic East, or anywhere?
There certainly isn't anything resembl-
ing one on the Western Slope.
1t is claimed that college education
doesn't hurt young man if he is will
ing to learn something afterwards.
Mr.. T. K. Cash of Elmyra, Missouri,
arrived Saturday in Delta and is visit
ing the Killians at their summer camp.
DR.. Mcconnell of Vincennes. Indiana
has arrived with his family and has
taken up his residence in the Model
block.
| Mrs. Howard Fletcher of Grand
Junction is visiting her parents, Cap
tain and Mrs. J. j. Winton, in Delta
this week
The first of the printers, Ben Frank
lin-so history ys-bundled into
Philadelphia with roll. That is better
than if he had rolled into the town with
bun.
Those at distance who want to get
better acquainted with Delta county
can have in their possession the infor-
nation they seek by subscribing for
the INDEPENDENT.
Harry and Mrs. Singleton will return
from Fort Collins the first and resume
their abode in Delta Harry, we under
stand, will have a clerkship in the
store of Gale Bros.
Lost, mileage book containing 300
or 400 miles of D. & R. G. mileage,
drawn to A. NJ. Anderson, Delta INDE-
PENDENT. Finder is requested to please
return same to this office.
Mr.. L. S. Angels team ran away
Tuesday while he was hauling hay,
speeding from Garnet Mesa to Main
street, but he succeeded in getting
them stopped without serious damage.
What the INDEPENDENT wishes to do
is to say something good and something
true and something new about Delta
county resources each week. Those of
older acquaintance and therefore better
informed, are appealed to for pointers.
Miss Rose Couch had bad shake-up
yesterday morning and received some
bruises by the horse she was riding
falling at the crossing in front of the
INDEPENDENT office. She was carried
into the office of DR.. Hick where she
was soon restored.
Mr.. George Crow and family left for
Fremont, Nebraska, Monday. Mr..
Crow has been here three months and
has made in that short time many
friends. He has two ranches here and
will visit Delta county from time to
time, looking after them.
Mr.. A. S. Tillotson handed in the
last of his supply of last years apples
to the INDEPENDENT this week. 1t was
a. Rome Beauty and had kept until July
Goth without any cold storage protec-
tion. With the exception of being a
little wrinkled at the surface the apple
was in perfect condition and without
speck of rot.
A listner who happened to be stand
ing between the Baptist and Presby-
terrain churches Sunday, while the Sab
bath Schools We're in session, listening
to the singing narrates: The Baptist
class sang: "Will there be Any Stars
in My Crown?" Hardly had the re-
frain died away when from the open
windows of the Presbyterian church
came the song by the Presbyteri IN
class: mo, Not One The two
churches are on opposite corners of the
street and the selection of the songs
was entirely accidental.
Nestled in her valley nook. at the
uSlta VI tue Nuuhlsoh atiu oHCoupan-
gre, Delta city has much in its en-
vironments to attract the attention and
please the eye. Broad fields green
with growing crops, fine orchards,
gardens wavy with their many pro-
ducts, great bitches from which water
is taken to irrigate farm, garden and
orchard. Nice driveways along which
huge cottonwoods throw their shades