The Delta independent., 1909-06-11
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

A jolly crowd of Central College mer
at the Baptist church June 18th.
Admission, adults 35 cents, children
under IL, rs cents.
Delta Lodge, No. 62, A. F. & A.
Masons, will meet next Monday even.
ing and confer the work. A large at
tendance is expected.
Sam Farmer of the Delta Land Co.
left Tuesday morning. for Colorado
Springs, Cripple Creek and various
other points i'll the interest of his COM
pany.
T. ]. Teagarten has completed q
four-room house on the lao acres he re-
Gently purchased from d. Hilkey or
California mesa. He has rented the
place to Fred Cole.
Hon. w. P. Dale, president of the
Delta County Business Mems Associa-
ton, left the latter part of last week
for Pennington, New Mexico, on a
ten-days business trip.
Miss Thusa Sabin, sister of Mrs. M
r. Lincoln, arrived Wednesday after
noon, and will spend the summer
months in Delta. Miss Sabin is a
School.
Advertisers will observe that copy
furnished early in the week always
gets the best display. 1t is not pos
sible to set as effective advertising on
the last day, when there is always a
rush, as it is early in the week.
For SALE: 40 acres tillable and cul-
tivated land in the Gunnison valley.
Fine location, home orchard, buildings
and 10 shares in Bona Eide ditch A
No. place. Will be sold soon and
cheap. Inquire of WEIGH & MERRILL.
Horatio Patterson recently sold 64
acres of his 16O on California mesa for
Sc, 400. A short time before he bought
the $50 acres for 81, 500. He got his
investment back and 81, 800 over for
the 81 acres and has the largest half
of the land left.
The d. & r. G. will run a special ex-
cursion to Ouray, Sunday, June 18th, at
SO 25 for the round trip Train leaves
Delta at 7:3o a. m; returning leaves
Ouray at 8 p. m. There will be a ball
game between the Delta Stars and
the Ouray Giants.
Mr. Rlonzo d. Ray of Gunnison. and
Miss Dora Moore of Cimarron, were
united in marriage at the Methodist
Parsonage last Saturday afternoon
The happy couple took the evening
train for Salt Lake City. They will
reside at Gunnison.
Prof H. l.. Hussong of the Utah
State Normal. has been offered the
position of superintendent of the Pa
onia schools. He is an educator of
excellent attachments and il he accepts
the position will be valuable addition
to Delta county's educational force.
A well constructed electric pumping
plant will run six months without stop
ping. and even longer if desired. but it
takes a good one to do it. Don't make
4 mistake. Hendrie & Bolthof's irri-
cation catalogue shows illustrations of
many successful installations. Send
for it,
Mr.. Kernohan, of North Delta. pre-
sented the INDEPENDENT with some
fine strawberries this week. The North
Delta berry crop is now nicely in evil
,v,y avl and tho fvt,tf n IN
the usual standard-the best grown.
Twenty cents per quart box was the
starting price.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Stuart re-
turned from California Wednesday,
where they spent the winter. after sell
ing their property at Ironton, Colorado,
last Fall. Tn will go back to Iron
ton for the summer. and then return to
Delta to live Mr.. and Mrs Stuart
will be remembered as having formerly
owned the Delta House.
Notwithstanding the high conditions
of the streams for the past month, no
reports of drownings have come in.
Men have been constantly working on
the streams in dangerous positions,
while boys of all sizes have been raft
ing "for fun" and we have feared
accidents to life as a result, but so far
everybody seems to have been lucky in
that respect.
Mrs. Abbie Stone, Delta's former
popular milliner, writes from her new
location at Norton, Kansas, enclosing
check for a years subscription to
the INDEPENDENT. She says: al have
now located in Norton. a town of three
thousand people. beautiful place on