The Delta independent., 1908-08-21
Local and Personal.


Delta schools open September 7th.
Harvest-time dances are in fashion.
The city is getting in lot of new
water main.
Mr.. Leonard Armstrong left Monday
for Telluride.
Mrs. Margaret Belts left Sunday for
Grand Junction.
A record-breaking crowd is expected
at the Delta Fair.
Mr.. Clemmings is down from his
mines at Telluride.
Miss Nellie O'Connor left Monday
for a visit in Denver.
Miss Minnie Jackson left Saturday
for short visit in Paonia.
Judge A. R. King had business in
Paonia the first of the week.
Delta is growing faster than any
other town on the Western Slope.
Mrs. J F. Sanders and daughter
Cora came home from Ouray Friday.
Mrs. NJ. E. Robinson left Monday for
Chicago to buy her fall stock of milli-
merry.
Paul Osborne spent last week on
Grand Mesa, fishing and rounding up
cattle.
Miss Rose Hetts and Miss Keeling
returned Sunday from a short visit in
Ouray.
Charley Sanders left Monday for
Denver for three weeks visit with
Raymond Smith.
Mr. and Mrs Herman Darling re
turned Saturday from their saw mill in
Montrose county.
The Chiles and Beckley families re-
turned Saturday from their summer
outing on Grand Mesa.
MIR. Roderick Vance returned Mon
day to Denver after two week S visit
with relatives and friends in Delta.
Charley and Robert Sanders and
Lester Shock came down from Ouray
Saturday, making the trip on horse
back.
Miss Lottie O'Connor returned Fri
day from Lake City, where she has
been filling the position of telegraph
operator.
Mr.. Vincent, we understand, has
rented the Delta opera house for next
Tuesday night and will address the
citizens of Delta.
The Delta band has purchased new
uniforms for its members and will give
balls at the Opera House to help pay
for them. each night of the Fair.
Fine corner lots on 9th and Grand
Ave. for sale cheap. Now is the time
to get good building site.
2s-2t WEIGH & MERRILL.
Prof. Andrews returned from his
vacation trip Saturday. After a short
visit with Delta friends he will go to
Walsenburg to assume the duties of
principal of the Walsenburg schools.
j. p. Kernohan, of North Delta, has
on exhibition in an INDEPENDENT win
dow, four Eureka potatoes of his new
crop, which are clean and smooth. The
four potatoes weigh Just five pounds.
| Hon. f. d. Catlin of Montrose has
been appointed by Acting Governor
Harper, delegate to the National Ir-
rigation Congress to be held at Albu-
querque September 29th to October 3rd.
VIM. Clark. one of the pioneer citi-
.f I'D ~ u a., lat
place Monday forenoon at 10 o'clock
Mr.. Clark was cousin of county COM
missioner Geo. C. Wilson of Delta, and
Judge A. X. King.
A lot of ''jackey" recruits were on
their way to the Pacific via the d. &
X. G.. passing Grand Junction last
Monday morning. Most of the boys
were from East Tennessee and they
were fine looking lot of young men.
The Western Slope particularly
Delta and Mesa county as well
have an open season on quail The
birds are getting so numerous as to be
regarded as pests by many farmers and
gardeners, who seem not only willing
but glad to have them thinned down n
little.
Rev. j. ID. Rankin, president of the
anti-saloon league of the state. was a
Delta visitor this week Rev. Rankin
has been pastor of the First United
Presbyterian church in Denver for %
years. He is out on his vacation but is
also looking up prohibition political
wires. ...
August Paulus, of Mansion, Wiscon-