The Delta independent., 1908-02-21
Local and Personal.

For snap on piano see A. E
Linkletter.
Work by day wanted. Phone Mrs.
Mclean. us red. 2w.
The INDEPENDENTS subscription list.
is growing every day.
A S55o.OO piano for s3s5.OO slightly
used. A. E. Linkletter.
Rev. F. A. Briggs was Delta visitor
Saturday from Cedaredge.
Mrs. Muriel Reich of Paonia is visiting
friends in Delta this week.
Four year old Gurnsey COW for sale.
Mrs. Artebee, North Delta.
Mrs. Martha E. Wales was a Delta
visitor from Olathe Monday.
Deals and property transfers are
thickening up in Delta county.
Mrs. E. R. Standish and daughter
Marjory left Sunday for the South.
Quite large number of people are
attending District court this week.
F. R. Stearns, a young Montrose
printer, was Delta visitor yesterday.
There will be large amount of build
ing on farms the coming summer and
fall.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. C. G. Green,
Wednesday morning, February 18th,
baby girl.
Realty dealer John j. Travis was a
/ Grand Junction visitor the latter part
of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM Helmke are in
this week from Escalante canon, at
tending court.
WANTED-to hire single man by the
month or by the year, for farm work.
]. E. MOORE, Delta
Mr.. VIM. Kiser Jr., of Cedaredge
was business visitor in Delta several
days the first of this week
The cheapest place in the country to
buy piano is at A. E. Linkletter's.
Good goods and easy payments.
Miss Pearl Carter has been absent
from her post at Will H. Mather's store
this week on account of sickness.
The regular meeting of the Womans
Relief Corps will occur next week
Wednesday, at 2 p. m, February 26th.
Spring is coming fast. Clean up and
fix up. Buy Muresco and paints to do
it with of the Independent Lumber Co.
Mr.. W. H. Stockham accompanied
his mother to Trinidad Monday, where
she goes to live with her daughter, Mrs.
Treat.
The world is full of beauty if you
look for it. You don't have to strain
your eyes in Delta to see visions of
lovliness.
Fifty subscribers in week is not
bad showing for the INDEPENDENT and
goes far to show how well the paper
stands with the people of Delta county.
The INDEPENDENT presents Hotch-
kiss page this week. Next week We
will have sn attractive Paonia page and
the following week one for Cedaredge.
If you have paid a subscription to the
INDEPENDENT and don't see it acknowl-
edged in our list of subscriptions re-
ceived, you are requested to notify the
office.
E. F. Hubbard, of Cory, one of Delta
county's biggest fruit growers, was
Delta visitor Tuesday. Mr.. Hubbard
is also Republican State Committeeman
for Delta County.
Mrs. Tillotson, retiring matron of the
Eastern Star, was presented with a
beautiful emblem of the order Monday
night. Dr. rockingham made the pre-
sentation speech.
We understand that Tribe of Red
Men is also to be organized at Hotch-
kiss. With Delta's new Tribe this will
make string of four Tribes at Paona,
Hotchkiss, Delta and Montrose.
Mrs. U. w. Keplinger, wife of Prof.
Kephnger of Frrita and who was for
merly superintendent of schools at
Delta, is here this week visiting her
mother. Mrs. Lizzie C. jackson.
Editor Brewer, of the Cedaredge
Champion, was down Saturday and,
We understand. bought the newspaper
press on which the Laborer was for
merly printed, which he will move over
for use at Cedaredge.
MIR. w. ID. Reed, of Wire & Reed,
Delta, received a telegram from Menlo,
Iowa, the first of this week conveying
the sad intelligence of the death of his
mother. In losing the one best friend
a man ever had. Mr.. Reed has the
surnl n thu of all who haua or x,na., ha