The Delta independent., 1908-01-17
News From Over
The County.
(Hotchkiss Herald.

tHotchkiss Herald
Miss Virginia Bennett is quite ill this
week.
F. P. Addleman returned from Den
yer on Monday night.
F. c. Mitchell and family returned
Friday night from short visit in Grand
Junction.
Miss Georgia Miller returned Sunday
night from visit with Fred Lane and
family in Denver.
Miss Lora Butler left for Denver
Tuesday morning after spending
couple of weeks with home folks.
c. E. Goddard returned on last
Thursday night from a short visit to
Ksnsas. When Mr.. Goddard arrived in
this country about year ago he
wanted to go back to Kansas at once.
Since making this visit you can't drive
him back there to live. No place like
the North Fork after ALL
Drs. Myers of Hotchkiss and Burgess
of Delta, yesterday reset the bones in
Gordon Piburn's leg which were broken
early last fall. The boy has been hav-
ing hard time and the bones did not
appear to unite properly. He is in a
serious condition yet and it may be that
the bones will have to be fastened to-
gether by artificial MEANS
Paonia Booster.l
While the winter is here prepare for
a busy spring. There never was time
when prospects were more rosy than at
peesent. We are having an ideal winter.
Not much snow, not too cold and yet
just right to keep the ground frozen so
that the fruit buds will not start. Ex-
perts tell us that the buds are in
elegant shape at present. 1t will only
be couple of months and then we will
be in the merry whrl of preparing for
a bumper crop.
j. A. Lundin, of Brighton, Colorado,
arrived here this week with all his
household goods. horses and COW. Mr.
Lundin has purchased 25 acres of the
Duffield & Kennedy place for 81, 600
c. c. Hawkins engineered the deal
which was made some weeks ago but
kept from the public until it was all
closed up. Mr.. Lundin has been a rail-
road man and he and his family will be
a good acquisition to the valley and we
bid them welcome.
serious runaway occurred down near
Hotchkiss Thursday. Otis Kurts of
Paonia and a man named John Davis,
who rents a ranch near Cottonwood,
were driving pair of young colts.
The team ran away in the town of
Hotchkiss first but were stopped with
out doing any damage. The two men
then started for the Davis home and
when they were at the place where the
lane turns north near the Head place
the team ran away again and threw the
occupants out. Davis struck on his
head and sustained fracture on the
Uranium and broken collar bone. He
lived several hours. Hurts was some
what bruised but not seriously injured.
(Paonia NewspapcrJ
Mrs. Ira Soucey was up from Delta
this week spending few days visiting
relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Cline left for
Sneffels, Colorado, Tuesday morning
where they will make their home for
the winter.
Miss Edith Newman returned home
Tuesday evening after three weeks
visit with friends in Fort Collins.
A. Morrell took the train Tuesday
morning for Cedar, Colorado. Mr..
Morrell has been elected president of
the Cedar Canal and Reservoir com
pany, the capital stock of which is
s4O0, 900, and he has gone over to look
after the interests of the same.
In letter to j. A. Langston, our
fellow townsman w. j. AFFORD who
has been attending the poultry show in
Denver for the last few days, states
that his entries have taken all the
prizes and that he owns the city which
he will sell as soon as possible and then
return home. Mr.. AFFORD has been
devoting a great deal of his time to the
raising of fine poultry and it seems that
his efforts have been crowned with
success.
North Fork Times)
Fred Johnson and family will move to
Oklahoma in a couple of weeks.
II. j. Baird a prominent attorney of
Delta was in town over night Wednes-
day.
Butler & Moore have dissolved pard-
nership and Mr.. Moore is in the livery