The Delta independent., 1908-05-01
Local and Person al
And still the people come.


Veteran Samuel Home visited Pueblo
this week during convention time.
We're no weatt er prophet-and that s
going Georges reputation one better.
L. j. Collins was down from Cedar
edge Tuesday to file papers on his
reservoir site.
Mrs. M. A. Barrow, of Hotchkiss, is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. C. E.
Mower, of Delta.
Say, the prices on clothing are the
lowest at the Ramsay ID. G. Co. Go
there for your suit.
Harry Faulkner, who has been seri-
ously i'll for number of weeks, is re-
ported improving slowly.
Ladies get your new spring hats at
the Ramsay d. G. Co. Up-to-date
styles and prices the lowest.
Mr.. F. Furst, capitalist of Adair,
Iowa, came out with L. G. Irwin and
has been looking over the country.
Mrs Hattie E. Davids was in Delta
Tuesday, from Cedaredge, making her
first annual proof on desert land claim.
Joseph and John Lovatto sold a piece
Of land near Cedaredge this week to ].
u. Smith for a consideration of 50, 600.
The line complete; the prices the
lowest on Ladies new spring suits.
The Ramsay d G. Co. Call and see
them.
In the progress of medical manufac-
ture, someone has invented an affinity
cure which sells at lOc bottle. 1t
may only be sterilized milk.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. j. Arnholt of Pen
der, Nebraska, old friends of the For
rest family on Garnet Mesa, are look
ing over Delta County with view of
locating
Delta's poorest crops will net as much
per acre as the best of the crops in
Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois and Missou-
ri, and with no drought chances to be
| taken by the farmer.
Delta has three good advertising me-
diums: First, the INDEPENDENT, sec
ond, the Tribune, and third-the Water
Wagon. The later, which is of course
Prohibition in politics, circulates most
ly up and down Main street.
lie big gospel tent is up on the
vacant block south of the INDEPENDENT
office and you don't have to crawl under
the canvass Doors open to everybody.
Evangelist Stout is getting big crowds
and now has room to accommodate them.
Sheriff Gibbs went to Denver the
first of the week and returned with
Frank Barker, aged 81, arrested for
burglarizing the section house at Esca-
ante. At the preliminary hearing
following Barker's arrival here he was
bound over to the district court in the
sum of 81 200.
While damage to any crop or indus
try is to be deplored. Delta county has
so many productive resources that she
is In much better shape to stand slight
check to any one of them than would
be sections dependent upon only one or
two. Delta is all right and will go
right along with her splendid march of
progress.
Frank c. Waller, concrete expert,
will divide his forces up between Delta
and Montrose. In the later place he
now has large contracts of walks to
build. Delta has nearly 10 miles of
concrete walks, as we'll as number of
good cement buildings that are stand
ing advertisements of Mr.. Walters fine
work. Denver nor no other city can
show better.
The following delegates from Delta
county attended the Republican con-
vention at Pueblo Tuesday: A. H.
Stockham, George Stephan, Millard
Fairlamb, M. R. Welch, H J. Baird.
Geo. Conklin, l.. r. Wigram, w. P.
Dale, Delta; M. d. Vincent, E. ].
Mathews, Paonia; Clair Hotchkiss,
Philip Stevens, Hotchkiss; Joseph Ho-
grefe. Cedaredge; MIR. Crawford of
Crawford.
Effort is being made to establish
cream collecting station at Coalby.
There is said to be good range for
cows there, up to the number of 800 or
400, on the reserve, and it is under
stood by many that privilege of
twelve cows to one owner is allowed
free for dairy purposes. In this way
collection sufficient to establish cream
station there for the Delta Dairy, with
man in charge to haul the cream, is
planned.
The Western Slope has Jared better
at the hands of Denver and other out