The Delta independent., 1909-07-09
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
F. G. Myers spent the week in Den

Inc county commissioners are IN SeS-
sion this week.
DR.. Dowdy of Cedaredge was Delta
visitor Wednesday.
The dates for Delta county fair are
September Is, 16 and 18th.
The fair premium list will be ready
for the printers next week.
H. J. Baird and VIM. Girardet were
Montrose visitors yesterday.
A. W. Carr left yesterday for trip
to Pennington, New Mexico.
Apples and peaches are growing and
beginning to fill out in fine shape.
Mrs James Zaninetti and two
daughters are visiting at Somerset this
week.
Sugar companies say the beet crop
this year promises to be exceedingly
large.
Even college education can't de-
prive some young men of their good
sense.
A number of the City Dads went up
the pipe line yesterday on a trip of in
spection.
You may be sure you are right, but
don't be too sure that everybody else
is wrong.
What nice old world this would be
if everybody subscribed for the INDIE
PENDENT.
Fruit Inspector Richardson returned
yesterday morning from trip to
Hotchkiss.
M. j. Johnston was here this week
from the Gunnison tunnel visiting with
his family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Yoeman of Pueblo are
visiting the family of l. B Raichart in
North Delta
The Ladies Guild of the Episcopal
church met Tuesday night with Mrs.
L. R. Wigram.
The C. II. Blake ranch, near Paonia
was sold this week for 5000 by Welch
& Merrill of Delta.
p. Mundry and family took in the
Ouray celebration, going Saturday and
coming home Wednesday.
AS a rule, when you are wasting
money you are also wasting time, anc
time is money. or ought to be.
Jay Gillette has purchased five pas
senger Studebaker auto and is as happy
as boy with new r, d wagon.
Delta has passed an ordinance pro
hibiting splitting on sidewalks and has
posted the city with copies of the same
One thousand dollars reward ha.
been offered for the body of DR.. Fair.
field, drowned in the Gunnison above
Delta.
After all his sweet associations with
the G. o. p. emblem would Mr.. Roose-
welt have the heart to shoot an ele.
phant?
Mrs. z. E. Watts, who was operated
upon for appendicitis last Friday. is re
ported progressing nicely toward re
covery.
OF course Adam and Eve did wrong
We don't deny it. but just the same II
is scrubby old orchard that has nc
apples.
Mr.. and Mrs. l. C. Hall and DR.
Grove went to lola Saturday to spenc
the 4th and toy with the rainbow trout
at his home.
Ii is the female mosquito that ha.
the singer and does the stinging, say,
a scientific exchange. Just as we
suspicioned all the time.
Tom Dewar, Fred Mcconnell. Mr.
Whipple and Merle Estes left Tuesday
for Curicante canon, up the Gunnison
to camp and catch trout.
Mrs. Rcbt. Young, Mrs Minnie Tay,
lor Mrs. Quigley and Walter Wagner
went to Ouray to visit relatives anc
friends and spend the 18th.
The United States annually exports
more wheat. including wheat -four, than
any other country in the world-l46,.
600. 900 out of GAG, 100, 600 bushels.
DR.. and Mrs. Douthitt left for Tellu
ride last Saturday for a visit. DIR.
Craig will remain here in charge of the
business and veterinary practice.
Mrs. Fairfield and Golding arrived ir
Delta Sunday evening, the former from
New York and the latter from Denver,
where he went to meet his mother.
There are surgeons in Delta fully as
capable of performing delicate or dan.
gerous operations as any of those out.
side. and they should be considered.
The mosquito crop hasn't been an
entire failure this season. But they