The Delta independent., 1908-09-25
Local and Personal.

| Mss iuSSudy.
The building boom continues and
promises never to stop.
Mrs. C. D. Walter and Mrs. W. F.
Dingman left Sunday for Marble,
Colorado.
The Delta Opera House has been
renovated and cleaned up in good shape
this week
T. X. Seaton and E. F. Hubbard re-
turned from the State Fair at Pueblo
! last Friday.
Rufus Gaddy and George Hibbs were
| Delta visitors last Friday from Red
lands mesa.
Uncle James Welch has been spend
ing the week in Delta from his ranch
near Cedaredge.
Captain and Mrs. ]. j. Winton were
down from the Winton ranch near the
coal mines yesterday.
F. P. Addleman came down from
Hotchkiss Saturday and made trip to
| whitewater on business.
Mr.. ]. E. Farmer left Sunday for
Denver to attend the Grand Lodge of
Masons which is in session there this
week.
Write your copy for publication plain
Ily. Don't leave it full of abreviations
and characters, then blame the printers
: if it is not right.
! D. P Cook is putting in most of his
time in Delta, with his brother, L. A.
Cook attending to business of the firm
and watching the growth of the new
Cook block.
Mr. Starr is here again this week
from Iowa. He is on deal for some
realty and expects to move his family,
who have been living in Boulder for
the past year to Delta.
To publish paper like the INDEPEN-
DENT means the combined effort of
number of people, gathering and print
ing just the information you want. A
subscription is good investment
Messrs Frank Day and son, of Weep
ing Water, Nebraska, We're in Delta
this week looking over the country.
Mr.. Day will keep informed in future
by regular visits of the INDEPENDENT.
Those from Delta who attended the
State Fair last week at Pueblo are loud
in their praise of the Fair and the
treatment they received at the hands
of 81,
pie.
Mrs. A. V. Holiday and little son
are here from Fairplay on visit to
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A NJ. An
derson. She returned with Mrs. Ander-
son, who had been visiting in South
Park, last Saturday.
The members of the choir of the
Christian church and other members
of the congregation to the number of
twenty-one drove to Montrose Sunday
to attend services at that place under
Rev. Charles G. Stout. The party re-
turned home the same evening.
DIR. rockingham will offer his resig-
nation to the Delta school board to-
morrow and in a few weeks will depart
for Redlands, California, where he goes
for health benefits. In the search for
improved health his hosts of friends
in Delta county will wish him success.
We made a mistake last week in
emitting the name of Miss Lulu Guyer
from the names of the guests who
sutraraI at tho Ral,,npt bn+al Era -,
Denver. Miss Guyer had nearly as
narrow an escape as Mr.. Mcconnell,
who still shows scars on the back of
his neck where the fire blistered it.
The following relatives of Mayor
Hauser are visiting the family from
Iowa: Mr.. n. o. Hauser, brother;
two sisters, Mrs. Jennie Lockard and
Mrs. Hattie Smith; one niece, Mrs.
Nellie Tucker, her husband and two
children. Mr.. Tucker is county clerk
and recorder of Hardin county, Iowa.
The party are spending this week in
company with Mayor and Mrs. Hauser
at the lakes on Irand Mesa. Next
week they will go to the head of Esca-
lanta canon on hunting trip.
A. Watson, of Coalby, attended the
State Fair at Pueblo aud put in his
time boosting for Delta county. Mr..
Watson is always an active, interested
citizen with good lungs and ready
speech, and his description of his inn
pressions-ho well he felt in realizing
that he lived in country so marvel
ously productive instead of one so bar
rem as that which Immediately sur
rounds Pueblo-is invigorating as well