The Delta independent., 1908-07-24
Local and Personal.
School days will come AGAIN.

Zim says: Don't grunt-do your
STUNT
1t will soon be time to boom the
Fairs.
Threshers are beginning to get their
machines in order.
Fishing parties are getting more
plentiful than trout.
Dust is getting most too thick for
comfort and good shower is needed.
A. B. Wire has been busy cultivating
young orchard on his ranch south of
Delta
Miss Clair Mower has been visiting
relatives and friends in Hotchkiss for
the past two weeks.
Fercival Coombe returned last week
from Denver, where he reports having
enjoyed very pleasant visit.
Expert Mulnix has been here for
week checking up the semi-annual
report and finances of the county.
A large number of Delta and Delta
county people took in the excursion and
La Toilette day at Montrose Wednes-
day.
Norwood also wants fair and race
meet this fall Well, Delta county
will have two big fairs, why not Mont
rose.
Clyde Vandeburg and j. c. Quigley
spent a part of the week fishing at the
lakes on Grand Mesa. They report
good success.
A fish that would bite one of those
merry widow hats some Of the
fishermen are now wearing would have
to have more than a sucker mouth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Seaton, Miss Moore
and Cartoonist and Mrs. Spencer left
Saturday for their two weeks outing
on the Gunnison river and Cebolle
creek.
DR.. Bulette, of Pueblo. will be at
Delta House. Delta, Monday, July 9th.
Practice limited to diseases of the Eye,
Ear, Nose and Throat, and fitting
glasses.
Besides having good crop of oats
growing in the court house park, the
new grass. blue grass and clover to
which it was seeded thus spring, have
an excellent start.
The burial services of Calvin Madi-
son. drowned in the Gunnison last
Tuesday. were held Saturday, the
knights of Pythias and Woodmen
Orders being in charge.
Mr.. X. R Moss and Mr.. Donald
Pyatt, of Morris, Illinois. arrived in
Delta Sunday for a visit at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Roberts who
reside in the upper Gunnison valley.
There will be some fine peaches this
year in the corporate limits of Delta.
We mean by this peaches that grow on
trees. And what there are will be
luscious, like all the Delta peaches.
DR.. Bulette, of Pueblo announces
that he will be in Delta next Monday,
July 9th, when he may be consulted
on Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat cases.
He will also attend to the proper
fitting and adjusting of glasses.
Grand junction boasts prospect for
electric railway. If some athletic
capitalist would throw the harness on
the Gunnison, the whole Western Slope
could have not only electric railroads
but electric power for all purposes.
There is perhaps no place in the
world where field products grow more
rapidly than in these valleys. One can
see vegetation grow through the day,
but by the next morning il has grown
so much additional that he fails to
recognize it.
The good old summer time is more
than half gone. The season is fitting
as all seasons fit. Time flies. 1t is
also fly-time. We are young today and
old tomorrow, or would be if tomorrow
ever came. Please excuse this para
graph-it's ''tiller." +"
DIR. Stockham of the First National
Bank left Tuesday to attend the State
Bankers Association meeting at Colo
RADIO Springs July 2Srd and 2ith. He
and Mrs Stockham will also attend the
Baptist Summer Assembly in Cascade
Canon, of which the Doctor is vice.
president.
James Savage, brother of Mrs. H.
w. Pratt, who has been in Delta for a
number of months, left Wednesday for
North Dakota, where he will engage
with brother in grain thrashing busi.
ness. The letter telling him to come
states that the wheat crop this year in
that state is very heavy.
If improvements over Delta county