The Delta independent., 1908-07-03
Local and Personal.

Mesa Sunday.
California Mesa farmers boast new
potatoes and peas.
Raspberries, dewberries and black
berries will be next of the berry sea-
son.
Mrs. S. Duncan, of California Mesa,
has been visiting relatives and friends
in Canon City.
Mrs. w. H. Mathers and children are
making tour of the Pacific Coast and
northwest states.
Delta County Commissioners meet
next Monday to transact the business
of the July session.
o. H. Williams of Coventry, Colo
rado, arrived Tuesday and will look
oyer Delta and vicinity with view of
coating.
Three and four hay crops here to one
East. That is one of the several things
which makes our land worth four times
as much.
Mrs. Burch, who has been visiting
her mother, Mrs. Welch in Denver, re-
turned to her home on California Mesa
last week.
The Fifth Annual Camp Meeting to
be held in tabernacle across from Com
mercial House commencing July 9Th.
All are invited.
Cedaredge section of the county is
rapidly coming into note and is destined
to become one of the finest and most
important districts of the Western
Slope
H. ]. Baird, secretary of the Busi-
ness Mems Association will go to Den
yer Sunday to help inform the crowd
about Delta. So will Mr. Merrill, of
Welch & Merrill.
Paonia is getting ready to take care
of its fine fruit crop coming on. Pa
onia and the other sections of Delta
county which have good crops this year
are assured of good prices.
C. H. Place, of Norwood, arrived
Sunday and will spend the 4th here
with his family and friends. Mrs.
Placs. and daughter, who have been
visiting her brother, C. H. Frost and
family for some weeks, will return
with him to Norwood.
The small fruits are already begin
Mug to put money into circulation, and
this will be increased by garden pro-
ducts and the ripening. of other fruit
crops, until Delta banks will have to
be braced to keep the amount of money
deposited from breaking down their
walls.
In some of the fruit saving tests
made this spring, the temperature in
orchards has been raised by heating as
much as eight and ten degrees. This,
it is estimated, would controvert any
frost effects which have shortened the
fruit crops in these valleys the past
two years.
News reached Delta this week of
the death of Revel Brown. son of Mr..
and Mrs. Mark w. Brown, at his home
in Denver. Colo, Sunday, June 2Sth.
He was 25 years of age and had spent
the greater part of his life in Delta
where he leaves many friends and rela-
tives to mourn his early death. =
Last Friday night the electric lights
were turned on by the Delta Electric
Light Company, whose power house
was burned two months ago. The ma
chnery repairs were gotten sufficiently
far along and under enough cover to
supply light again, and it seemed pref
ty good after the period of candles and
coal oil. The people of Delta do not
prefer darkness to light because their
deeds are evil" They want light and
lots of it-because they are all right.
See?
1t is worthy of note that two of the
colts of Ward S., owned by VIM. Silsby
of Delta, are, with many other colts
sired by Ward s., making fancy rec
ords away from home. "Wayback
has recently won heat at Fargo,
North Dakota in 2:l5, and Helen
Could has made n mile at Liberty
vile, Illinois in 2:l2is. Helen Gould is
at McMahan's stable at Libertyville.
She is owned by j. NJ. Hubert of Dem
yer and was raised by E. b. Anderson
of Delta.
Chester Bond. who rents the Hiltman
place in Red Mountain vicinity, had
serious loss by fire Wednesday after
noon. Mrs. Bond and Mrs. Kitch had
driven out and left the two little girls
at home. One of them. on looking out,
discovered the henhouse on fire. The
fire sprerd to the stable and hay stack