The Delta independent., 1908-12-11
Local and Personal.

business visitor in Delta last Friday.
The town is full of shows this week
AS many as two theatres each evening
Mr.. Rollins, of the Rollins Fuel ant
Feed Co., was down from the min,
Tuesday.
Attorney H. j. Baird left Delta
yesterday to visit Omaha, Nebraska
and Iowa points.
Miss lone Penley entertained a num-
ber of her little friends at birthday
party Friday evening.
For SALE Household goods includ-
ing almost new Monarch steel range
at $50 Dodge street
Mr.. J. II. HALEY arrived in Delta
Saturday from Oakland, Oregon for a
visit with old friends.
The Senior class in High School will
give play entitled Bar Haven" on
Friday, December 18th.
Mrs Bernice Haley Forrest returned
home Saturday from an extended visit
among friends at a distance.
Prof Weldon will go to Denver and
Ft. Collins for few weeks. returning
to Delta in time for the short course.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Ham
mond at their home in Delta last Sat-
urday night fine baby girl, weight 13
pounds.
You want a good home paper and
we want you on the INDEPENDENT's
list. 1t should be easy for US to get
together.
The sugar beet harvest is now over
and the remainder of this years crop
is being shipped to the factory at
Grand Junction.
Mrs. John Kurz entertained a num-
ber of friends Friday evening at her
home on Meeker Street, in honor of
Mr.. Kurz's az birthday.
wegs & Howard of Delta received
shipment of mantels and fireplace
fixtures last week from the Denver
Mantle & Tile Co. of Denver.
Ouray snow slides claimed their first
victim Sunday. Elias Fritz, Liiner.
being caught on the Red Mountain road
by the first slide of the season.
The INDEPENDENT has been over-run
with work this month and but poorly
prepared to do it. We hope to do bet
ter when we get our new press in.
The Baptist ladies will hold their
annual Christmas sale of fancy articles
and home cooking Saturday. Dec. 18th,
in the Linkletter music store. a4-2t
Mr.. Jacob H. Rishel called in our
Office on Monday to tell US that he was
celebrating his eighty-second birthday.
He was born in Columbia county Penn
sylvana on Dec. Z. 1926. He has lived
in Colorado since 1879.
r. o. Wilmot of Hotchkiss and Geo.
Hider of Austin returned home the
latter part of last week from trip Of
inspection to the Newport group of
mines situated near the great Frank
Hough mine at Lake City.
Don't let the matter of the new
sugar factory worry you. 1t will come
in good time. just as sure as the sun
continues to shine and put sugar into
the beets we grow. In the meantime
our beets have market, so the indus
try will not lag.
Mr.. Edward G. Watson left Tuesday,
en-route for New York and thence to
England, to spend Christmas with his
parents He will take steamer from
New York about the 10th inst. He ex-
poets to be in Europe about six months.
His address, where the INDEPENDENT
will visit him, is Great Staughton, st.
Neotes, Hunts, England.
"A letter and subscription-t the
former delightfully."- written, the latter
always acceptable-from DR.. H. J.
rockingham, Redlands, California,
dated November Both. DR.. Frothing-
ham, than whom no man in Delta
county has more friends, is in Califor-
MIA for his health, and though he failed
to state his physical condition. all hope
that he may be improving nicely.
The kind hearted ladies' and gentle
men of Delta can do a favor for
comrade Henry Tubbs who has had
serious illness costing him $4,000. R.
J.. Coffey is adjutant Of the Delta
G. A. r. post, and any person who will
hand him SO or even 25 cents for use
of Mr.. Tubbs will do neighborly act.
The money can be sent through the
'postoffice in envelope If desired.
By mistake last week the lNDEpEN-
DENT reported the sale of the Curt
property near Paonia to Mr.. McNutt,
at s2, $50, when it should have read