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

Get ready for the Fair. Collect the
best you have for exhibit.
Delta County Fair Septembe 9, 10
and Il. Remember the dates.
Some men enjoy the music of their
own hat pand more than they would
grand opera.
Local Fairs are a matter of local
pride and everybody should be enthusi-
astic in taking part.
The INDEPENDENT has received a
good many compliments on the heavy
quality of paper it uses.
Trade is picking up some and money
will soon begin to flow more freelysas
the crops continue to be gathered.
All should help boom the Fairs. Sue
cessful Fairs are the best kind of ad-
vertisements for the counties where
held.
No land is high at any price which
will pay for itself in one crop; or, for
that matter, in three or four or FIVE
crops.
Delta county last year was a prize
winner on all products. Let US prove
that this year we can do even better
than last.
The water supply has been better
this season than was expected, and the
present rainy season is making it now
abundant.
Farmers in many sections are begin
-.1t tr1, -
who can really afford them, it ought to
be the farmers.
As the season advances more people
arrive at Delta daily. This is good
sign and tells, in part, how our splendid
county attracts attention.
The Garnet ditch was on boom the
first of this week but the water was
shut off by Superintendent Dooley in
time to prevent threatened breakage.
1t will seem good when everybody
gets home from their summer vaca-
tions. 1t helps to disorganize things to
have you away. Better stay at home,
all of you.
With the beginning of September
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activity all over Delta county. The
fall and winter were never more
promising.
There are more people in Delta coun-
ty who can write their names to checks
and have them honored at the banks,
than in any other county in Colorado of
like population.
Mr.. E. D. Smith, who is starting a
real estate office at Cedaredge, was a
Delta visitor yesterday. He is enthusi-
county, as he should be.
Miss Margaret Griggs and mother,
who have been spending vacation East,
are expected home Sunday. Miss Griggs
Is a teacher in the Delta schools and
one of our most skilled educators.
The late copious rains will do much
to insure good stock range for the fall.
Range stock of all kinds has done well
through the season and the outlook
ahead now for the stockgrower is most
favorable.
A thirteen-year-old boy in the East
has written the postmistress at Delta
inquiring if there are any ranches here
and asking if the ranchmen have daugh-
ters who are brave riders. This per-
haps presages visit and conquest by
the fairy prince.
The following persons in Delta cour-
ty have been appointed to receive ex-
hibits for both the State and Inter-
State Fairs; R. w. Curtis, Paonia;
Paul Wilson, Hotchkiss; E. F. Hubbard,
Eckert; w. ID. Nelson. Cedaredge; F.
h Mcconnell and II. j. Baird, Delta.
A branch of yellow transparent
apples which is really marvel, hangs
in the Seaton Drug Co., window The
twig is but eight inches long and on it
clustered as thickly as plums, are l2
ripe apples of good size, which com.
pletely hide the limb that holds them.
Judge Welch. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Merrill, l.. Jeffreys, Roy Woodgate,
Irma Singleton, Alta Stewart, LYDIA
Hughes. Lou Benedict of this city and
Fred Graham of oakes, N. D., make up
n camping party to leave Delta for
Grand Mesa Saturday afternoon. TIE
party will start with goodly supply
of provisions and will use the Welch
cabin.
w. Walter Wilson, wife and two
children arrived in the city on the noon
train from Delta. They will make
Montrose their home, as Mr.. Wilson
has accepted position in the big furni-