The Delta independent., 1908-08-14
Local and Personal.

day for Oklahoma.
Coal for fall delivery is being mined
and delivered on orders.
Mrs. A. B. Jarrett spent Saturday
and Sunday at Montrose.
Judge A. R. King had business in
Grand Junction Saturday.
Wheat and oats are mostly cut and
in some instances thrashed.
In few weeks home grown melons
the best ever-will be in market.
Tomatoes are ripening nicely and will
be plentiful from now until after frost.
Mr.. Oswin Rowbotham of Hotchkiss
was Delta visitor the first of this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred NJ. Thomas are
on couple of weeks outing on Grand
mesa.
Editor and Mrs. Brewer of the Cedar
edge Champion were visitors in Delta
Monday.
Mr.. E. L. Kellogg, of Montrose, was
d bdslhess NlSlloI " DtIAa lile hiSN ol
the week.
Lester Shock who is employed at the
Democrat Office left Sunday for week s
visit in Ouray.
f B. Wells and family left Saturday
for their old home in Kansas where
they will reside.
The INDEPENDENT editor is away this
week, which may account for the paper
being better than usual.
Sam Farmer, one of Delta hustling
real estate men, went to Grand juno
tion on business Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Stephan and A.
w. Carr left Monday for a trip over
the eastern part of the state.
Ernest Burgin and wife returned the
first of the week from a short visit
with relatives in Grand Junction.
That the prices for the peach and
apple crops will be high, is borne out by
the small fruit crops of the season.
The brick work on the annex to the
DaPAicN PioEtScShlk
Mr.. ]. N. Jeffers has the contract.
The political game will soon be open
in earnest. Every American citizen is
privileged to sit in and take a chance.
MIR. and Mrs. Pilling, father and
mother Of Mrs. John Forrest are here
visiting the latter from Pender, Neb.
The valley hay crop of this section is
yielding well this year, the second crop
of alfalfa being now well along in cut
ting.
There is not another town in Colo
rado-aside from the largest cities,
that is showing as great progress as
Delta.
The hot weather season will soon be
over, with perhaps the exception of an
hour or two of real heat in the after
moons.
The many who have been on summer
will come back with their number
doubled.
Much of the residence building in
Delta this year has been in sections in
plain view to the railroad travel, which
is good thing.
The store room recently vacated by
The Delta Trading Co., is being re-
modelled and will be occupied by Kurz
& McGrew's meat market.
Rev. C. w. q. Lyon left Monday for
Telluride where he will spend the month
of August with his family when they
will come to Delta to reside permanent
ly.
Interest in the Fair at Delta is grow
ing nicely as it should. A good fair at
advertise the resources of the whole
county.
Mr.. X. W. Curtis came in from Pa
onia Friday of last week and en-route
stopped at Cedaredge and brought down
some of those large apricots for ex-
hibition.
Mr.. W. H. Chiles of the Delta
National Bank, went up to the Grand
Mesa lakes Saturday to spend a week, >,
and where Mrs. Chiles and their two
children had proceeded him.
One advantage of this section over
many others lies in its multiplicity of
crops. If one or msre should fail in
any season, there are enough others to
make the farmer even and profit
besides.
The sugar beet crop is doing well and
the harvest of this important crop will
begin the latter half of next month. In