The Delta independent., 1908-06-12
Local and Personal.

nicely now
F. M. Fickes was down from Coalby
Wednesday.
| Did you notice the Improvement in
the weather?
A week from Tuesday Is cleaning up
day. Get busy.
Sheriff Gibbs is trout fishing today
up the Gunnison.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Ashley Goblin Saturday.
Miss Oracle d. Richardson was in
from Cedaredge Saturday.
! Mrs. Aggie McAllister and children
are visiting friends in Delta.
VIM. Mexican and Elmer Gibbs of
Cedaredge were in town Saturday.
Asael c. Thomas, of Alton. Illinois,
is here visiting with his brother, the
architect.
Miss Ethel Avise, popular Eckert
school teacher, was Delta visitor
Saturday.
Place your ashes and other rubbish
so it can be hauled away easily. Week
from Tuesday is the day.
Miss Elberta Smith. of Montrose, was
Delta visitor the first of this week,
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Jarrett.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Merchant and Mr..
VIM. Merchant, of Garrison, Iowa, are
visiting relatives in Delta this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. H. Nye were in
Delta Tuesday and Wednesday from
Montrose, visiting at the NJ. r. Welch
home.
Welch & Merrill have sold two lots
in South Delta for Walter A. Jefferson,
purchaser being Mr.. S. H. Nye of
Montrose.
c. c. Maryott and o. D. Aldrich, of
Fort Collins, were here last Saturday
on their return from the land opening
at Twin Falls, Idaho.
Tbe INDEPENDENT editor is just get
ting able to attend to business little,
but, by next week Richard hopes to be
himself again hobby horse and all.
Robert r. Douma, who has been
tea hing in Cedaredge schools for sew
erai years, passed through Delta Fri
day for his old home in Michigan,
where he expects to spend the summer
Judge King returned home from at
tending the General NJ. Z. Conference
at Baltimore, the first of this week.
Judge King has been absent from Delta
in his capacity as delegate to that con-
ference, for the past month.
Welch & Merrill have sold the Royal
Bakery to Fred Jacobs of Leadville,
Colo, consideration 1880. MIR. Jacobs
is an experienced baker and will expand
the business to meet the needs of city.
He will Immediately open up the soda
fountain and ice cream parlor.
EsTRAY-Came to my place on the
Hovey ranch, 3 head of work horses,
without brand and one with quarter
circle heart. Owner can have same bv
calling at above place and paying
charges.
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DR.. and Mrs. Burgin leave Delta
Sunday to visit their old home in Mis-
souri,. The Doctor will take in the
Democratic convention at Glenwood
Springs, en-route, and on his return
hopes to scheme some way by which he
can get inside of the Bryan canvass at
Denver. DR.. Burgin expects to return
to Delta about July 10th. Pethany,
Mo-, is the old home town which DR..
and Mrs, Burgin will visit
Delta county is going forward all the
time. Delta and every other town in
the county is growing. At the county
seat new buildings appear by the score.
One can see handsome new houses
every way he looks, with here and
there commodious business structure
in process of erection. Over the county
much the same condition prevails.
Farms and fields are rife with teeming
crops, while new buildings and other
farm improvements are taking the
place of the old. Delta county is a
county of progress.
Judge Swisher, publisher of the
breckenridge Bulletin, dropped into
Delta yesterday. en.route home from
Ridgeway where he had accompanied
his sister. Judge Swisher is one of the
most genial types of the old school
democrat, and his expressions of de-
light at seeing Delta for the first time
were worth hearing. IL saw little to
impress me from the depot" he said
but when | got in town-well. it looks