The Delta independent., 1908-12-04
Local and Personal.

Crowds of people are in town now
every day.
Property transfers are keeping up
good record.
The Paonia Mercantile Association
meets tonight.
Father O'Farrell visited his Delta
charge over Sunday.
Delta has more than $50, 900 worth
of cement sidewalks.
Realty men are negotiating big deals
and making some of them.
Mr.. N. H. Castle is recovering from
a serious case of pneumonia.
Ward barley returned last week
srom business trip to Denver.
See the big ball game this afternoon
between Delta and Colorado Springs.
Street filling is going on up Fourth
and Fifth streets. Something doing
always at Delta.
The outlook for the Gunnison and
Uncompahgre valleys is growing
brighter day by day.
The sale of property advertised for
delinquent taxes will begin at the
county clerks office next Monday.
Delta foot ball team is plenty heavy
enough to play the college teams, and
to make them sit up and take notice,
too.
Keep in mind the INDEPENDNT's
special edition. Field work on matter
it will contain will begin the first of
next week.
Rev. Geo. barley Jr., son of DR..
barley. preached at the Presbyterian
church Sunday night to a large and
interested audience.
Subscriptions are coming in nicely,
which proves that Delta county people
appreciate paper that never mi. Sc an
opportunity to boost.
Walter Singleton is visiting at Alma
this week and enjoying one of those
old familiar snowstorms he used to be
friendly with years ago.
The Pueblos must be easy to let
Grand Junction beat them. But of
course all High Schools can't have
foot ball teams as good as Delta.
Denver. had more than a foot of
snow the first of this week. Delta,
didn't have any. On some parts of the
Divide there was fall of 60 inches.
Some growers of sugar beets who
have stock to feed, claim that there is
more money in feeding the beets to
stock than in selling to the factory.
A Christmas lot of hand painted
china will reach Mr.. Helt next week,
done by Miss Anne Harvey of Denver,
whose work has so well pleased Delta
people
Mr.. j. ]. Barker has been i'll this
week with pneumonia, but is much
better. The attack was considered
serious at the beginning but was hap
PLY broken before becoming deep set.
Next week the INDEPENDENT will
have more room for both news matter
and holiday advertisements, as the tax
list publication, which occupied two full
pages, is completed with this weeks
issue.
A good play, with good strong plot
and an unusual amount of rich comedy
interpreted by clever lot of people, is
what will be seen when THE MISSOU-
RI GIRL appears at the Opera House,
Dec. 7th.
The Delta County Cattle Growers
Association meets at Hotchkiss to-
morrow (Dec. 5th) to hold its annual
meeting. Government control of the
ranges will be discussed" is announced
in the call.
Ben Cohn and Geo. Farrer were here
from Leadville the first of this week.
Mr.. Cohn was looking for an invest
ment. Mr.. Farrer has claim under
the canal and attended the water users
meeting Monday at Olathe.
Everybody feels good over the result
of the Water Users meeting and the
that the Gunnison tunnel will
be pushed to completion as rapidly as
possible. 1t will mean the more per-
feet development of the Western Slope
Empire.
Ohe hundred business men of Glen
wood attended recent meeting of the
Board of Trade of that city. put their
shoulders to the wheel and pledgedd
their support to the building of an
Their civic pride and
public spirit are both to be commended.
THE MISSOURI GIRL is guaran-
teed attraction, and the theater man.
ager is instructed to refund the money
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