The Delta independent., 1908-01-31
Local and Personal

Paonia yesterday.
| A big force is at work on the reser-
voir at Payne's siding.
| Regular meeting of Garnet Chapter
No. 80 o. E. S. Monday night.
MIR. and Mrs. Mccoy are both re-
ported on the sick list at their home on
Meeker street.
Mrs. B. Gray has been down with
grippe at her home on Dodge street,
but is recovering.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walden and Mr.. Dar-
land, Of Indianapolis, Iowa, are here
with a view of locating.
R. P. Fargo who was here visiting
Sheriff Gibbs has departed for his home
at Dolaud, South Dakota.
Hon Merle D. Vincent and Judge
Baxter we're here from Paonia Wed
nesday, each having acase in the comfy
court
Senator Horace T. DeLong, of Grand
Junction, will address the Business
Mems Association at Delta next Nor
day night.
To come to Delta and look around
means, with rlost people, to invest.
They just can't resist the charms of
thus valley.
Tomorrow begins the last month of
the winter season. 1t will not be long
until the air viii smell of blossoming
I fruits and flowers.
Mr.. James Blair, who returned to
Delta recently from Blackfoot, Idaho,
has purchased the George CrabiI dwell
ing on ieeker street.
The Baptist Ladies Aid viii hold
sale Of home cooked food at the store
of Mrs Jefers on Main street, on Sat
urday, February ist.
H. .. Davis, who was in Salt Lake
for six eeks, has returned to Delta
He says Delta beats even the much
lauded climate of Salt Lake.
Several inches of snow fell yesterday
at Cedaredge and up over the North
Fork country. AT Delta there was
enough moisture to lay the dust and
make the streets little muddy.
Mesrs. Tom Martin and C. Collins
of Telluride have bought ranch down
the ftver near Dominique and left yes
terday morning to begin improving it
Mr. Martin was a former old resident of
Delta.
DR.. rockingham lecture, The
Phantom King at Odd Fellows Hall
last night was we'll attended and highly
praised. The musical numbers by Miss
Singleton and Mrs. Worthy, were also
received with applause,
DIR, B. S. Powell, of Mercer county,
Missouri, was here yesterday looking
over the country. He likes it, left
yesterday evening for his family who
remained in Grand Junction, and will
come back, perhaps to locate.
Rehearsals for the cantata. The
Death of Minnehaha' music by S.
Coleridge-T Taylor to be given under the
direction of the Delta School of Music,
will begin Monday evening February 8,
in the Opera House at 7:30 O'Clock.
All singers are invited to participate.
TIE annual meeting of the Uncom-
pahgre Water Users Association will
be held in Olathe next Tuesday, for
the election of officers and the transac-
ton of any other business which may
come before it. The meeting is of in
terest to all water users of the valley.
A. E. Smith, who was arrested last
week for selling whisky without H.
cense, was convicted on three counts
and fined $500 on each count. He was
remanded to the county Jail in default
OF payment. The federal authorities
viii probably further prosecute. the
case.
The INDEPENDENT force is kept very
busy getting out each weeks paper
and attending to the office work and
business. We are therefore doubly
grateful to those who kindly assist in
getting together news for its columns.
By their help and only by this held are
we able to publish so newsy paper as
the INDEPENDENT is each week becom-
ing.
Frank Stewart Regan, cartoonist,
will lecture at the Baptist church Mon.
day, February Srd, at S o'clock p, M.
The lecture will be Illustrated by crayon
sketches, and music by singer who
accompanies him. Admission free with
silver offering at the door to be used
to help make Colorado dry. MIR Regan
comes to us highly recommended. Let
everybody come aad enjoy this treat,
1t would be very commendable to