The Delta independent., 1908-10-02
Local and Personal.

Mrs. Duffield, of the Tribune, left
yesterday for visit in Denver.
Wagons and trail wagons loaded with
sugar beets are daily scene at Delta.
A long spell of fine weather is due
vet all over Colorado before winter
sets in.
Mrs. A. d. Turner left Thursday for
Seattle, Washington, on visit to her
daughter.
FOR SALE: so foot corner, East
front, 9Th and Grand. Price 5000.
Welch & Merrill
Sufficient snow fell on the ranges the
latter part of last week to make the
mountain peaks look like great white
giants.
Judge NJ R. Welch left for Montrose
Tuesday to argue a motion in court
against the d. & R. G. r. R, in the
case of a client.
Tonsorial Artist Flagg has moved his
studio in with G. H. Doughty, where
he will be glad to see all his old friends
and customers.
The new beet dumps are practically
completed and ready for business But
small proportion of the beet crop has
yet been gathered-perhaps fourth or
fifth of the acreage. The harvest will
last well through November.
Mrs. II. j. Baird and little daughter
left Thursday for visit back to the
old home in Iowa. MIR. Baird accom-
panied them as far as Denver. getting
there in time to hear MIR. Taft, next
President of the United States, speak.
The dee- sections are now full of
hunters, all striving to get shot at
something. With some of them it is
sometimes deer, at other times a
calf and at still other times shot is
taken at fellow hunter. by mistake.
We always disliked to see a warmly
clad man leading barefoot child along
frosty road. The man who will take
the best of the comforts with child
has the appearance of being too selfish
and mean for a respectable dog to bite.
Mr.. /. NJ. McMurray has been elected
secretary of the Delta School Board to
succeed DIR. rockingham. who ten
dered his resignation Monday. DR..
Frothinghnm expects to leave in q
couple of weeks for California. for his
health.
Rev. Glover of the Christian church,
is back at his duties after a siege of
six weeks with typhoid fever at the
Riverside Sanitarium near Montrose.
Mr.. Glover praises the Sanitarium and
its proper care and treatment of pa
TENTS.
Mr.. c. Mundie arrived Wednesday
from Buffalo, New York and has taken
a position with G. W. Ridley the Jew
eler. Mr.. Mundie is an old experienced
matchmaker having worked at the
bench for over 20 years. He will have
charge of the watchwork.
G. w. RIDLEY.
One of the best and largest crops of
Jonathan apples in Delta county is now
being gathered from the Luke place on
Redland's Mesa, a large number of
pickers and packers being employed.
The Surface Creek Fruit Growers As
sociation have sent foreman to the
place to superintend the packing.
Montrose seems to have plenty of
fires. There were two more last week.
the Gibson Lumber company suffering
another loss in the destruction of its
planning mill. Delta has been very
lucky about fires, only two of the sew
eral that have started during the year,
doing any considerable damage. These
were the electric light plant and Drug
gist Cooks barn.
Archdeacon Lyon returned to the city
on Monday from the southern part of
his archdeaconry and will spend the
greater part Of the next three weeks
in Delta and points along the North
fork. The Archdeacon and Mrs. Lyon
are now at home to their friends in
their Delta home at 46S Dodge street
and desire to make it known that the
latchstring is always on the outside.
The freezes Saturday and Sunday
night, like those which came in May,
were Unexpectedly severe. Most of
the vine growth was cut down and the
fall crop of melons. tomatoes and
grapes brought to an earlier close than
would have been the case if our fall
had been proportionately late with the
spring. Several thousand boxes of
peaches left unpicked were also said to
have been damaged.
Mrs. Carrie Thompson, living on the
California mesa side of town, died of
tuberculosis at her home Tuesday even
ing. Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson came
here last spring, from Beresford,