The Delta independent., 1909-06-04
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

| Mr.. and Mrs. Will Nicholson and
mother. Mrs. Hovey, of Grand, juno
tion have been visiting at the home OF
Ernest Hovey.
Miss Lucy E. Spicer. assistant prin-
cipal of the Delta High School, left
Monday for Iowa, where she will spend
her vacation.
James Beckley is now in Standard
Oil, having succeeded Clarence Smith
in the partnership of John D. at Delta.
as distributor.
Miss Halle Wenger, assistant post
master at Eckert and Miss Delena
Vella, coop. phone operator visited
Delta Monday.
John Kurz has bought the interest
of his partner, Mrs McGrew, in the
Delta Market and will continue the
business alone.
The first cutting of alfalfa will take
place during the last half of June. The
growth of the meadows is now becom-
ing fairly rapid.
Inc LduleS 1ullu, Ol 81 LuhS .
Episcopal church are planning to give
children s entertainment on the nights
of June 21st and 22nd.
Mrs. Croxton and Miss Croxton,
Mrs. Carr, Mrs. Hunt and daughter,
Charihe, left for Seattle Tuesday to
attend the Exposition.
Mrs. E E. Watts has been suffering
severely this week with an attack of
appendicitis. Her many friends hope
for speedy recovery.
The young people of the Christian
Sunday School will give a lawn social
at |. l. Keiffer's, Thursday evening
June 10th. All are invited.
Fruit growers are advised to loook
ahead to their stock of boxes needed
for packing this season, as the demand
is likely to be unusually large.
The Delta Steam Laundry has new
closed laundry wagon which looks
almost as neat and clean as the work
turned out by that establishment.
Geo Conklin had the misfortune of
losing a valuable milch COW Sunday
night The COW got into a sack of
bran and partook little too freely.
Miss Helen NJ. Davy, who spent the
past six months in Delta, left Tuesday
afternoon for Colorado Springs. where
she will remain during the summer.
Hotchkiss is adding cannery to its
evaporating plant. to have capacity of
10000 cans per day. Machinery will
also be installed for making the cans.
The honey season is somewhat back
ward this SPRING While some new
honey has been taken for family use,
but little has found its way to Market
Misses Lillian Tucker. Bessie Turner
and Minnie Isensee were delegates to
the Epworth League Convention held
at Grand Junction May oath and 25th.
VIM. Balm, a former Delta county |
man, has gone into the banking busi-
pess in Albany. Oregon, where he has
erected new building for the purpose.
From an exchange we CLEAN that the
number of acres successfully seeded to
beets in Delta county this years. ac
cording to field superintendent Douthitt
is 1850.
Among the Delta teachers who have
gone away for vaca ion are: Miss
Beardsley to Denver. Miss Meyers and
Miss Horton to Ohio, Miss Showalter
to Missouri.
DIR. and Mrs. Burgin will leave Mon
day for Denver, where the Doctor will |
attend the meeting of the Eclectic
Medical Association held there June
Sth and 9th.
F. H. Peck has been appointed dis
trict manager of the Colorado National
Life Insurance Company for Delta,
Montrose, Gunnison and the northern
part of Hinsdale county.
Castle & Travis closed deal vest r
day wherein Prof. Dana became the
purchaser of the remainder of the Peter
Madsen ranch on Redlands mesa. The
consideration was $500.
Apples and peaches are now well
formed on the trees. while cherries are
advancing rapidly to the coloring and
ripening period. If the fruit crop
isn't now assured it ought to be.
C. E. Rusk and family left Delta the
fore part of the week for Denver. where
Mr.. Rusk expects to spend the sum
mer. Mrs Rusk and the little boy will
go to Tampico, H.. to visit relatives.
Home grown Strawberries will soon
be in market. Delta is one of the