The Delta independent., 1909-04-16

congregation love ana esteem. IL is
good to see such warm mutual regard
existing between pastor and flock.
Judge VIM. G. Ewing will lecture on
Christian Science at the Opera House
May 3rd. Admission free.
]. K. Plasters is offering household
furniture at private sale. A lot of
good furniture will be sold cheap as the
family are to leave Delta soon. Resi-
dence on Garnet mesa
A little fire at the residence of Harry
Stockham on Garnet mesa caused an
alarm and run of the fire brigade last
Friday forenoon. The fire was subdued
without particular damage.
! ire Baird sold to Mr.. French, of
Olathe this week, the dwelling and
four lots owned by Mrs. Trissel at
Second and Grand, for s25OO. Mr..
French will come to Delta to live.
Miss Theresa Shean will take the
place of Genevieve Hartig at Judge
Welch's office. Miss Hartig will go on
her farm near town for awhile and
break her black horse to the plow.
The Missionary Society of the Pres
byterian church will meet with Mrs. j.
F. Sanders. Friday April 23rd, at 2
o'clock p. m. An interesting program
is being prepared by Mrs. Burgess.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Ridley left
Thursday for Chicago. where Mrs.
Ridley will visit relatives while Mr..
Ridley will do post graduate work at
the Northern Illinois College of Optics.
Mrs. M. j. Brown, Deputy County
Clerk left on Sunday for DeBois. Mon
tana, where her sister Mrs. M. j.
Muckle is very i'll. Mrs. Muckle was a
former residentof Delta and has many
friends here.
The four white Easter rabbits at
Hart's were drawn by Robert Carna-
nahan, a Meeker street boy, who
guessed clostest to the number of beans
in the jar, his guess being 7,4O0 and
the number of beans being 7340.
When young lady compositor was
asked regarding her rules for punctua-
ton, she replied: 81 set as long as |
can hold my breath, then put in a
coma. When l yawn l put in semi
colon and when l take a chew of gum
l make paragraph"
The big traction engine formerly
used by the Fairview coal company,
was run across the North Delta bridge
the first of this week and did some
damage by breaking two or three
stringers. 1t was left on this side,
down in the river bottom.
In South Park on Wednesday night
of last week, the mercury registered
10 below zero, which was pretty near
ly a record breaker for cold in April.
On last Sunday heavy snow fell at Den
yer and nearly all over the northern
and eastern portions of the state.
The duck season closed Thursday.
Next on program of field sports will be
trout fishing, the season for which will
open May 25th. Indications are that
streams will be so high that trout fish
ing will not be anything like good for
some time after the season opens.
w. j. Darnell was in from Cory
Tuesday and brought in some fruit
boughs to show that the buds were as
backward as the season. Mr.. Darnell
is enthusiastic over the outlook for
big fruit crop. He says the season is
entirely favorable so far and the wealth
er Just what is wanted.
Notwithstanding the cold spells.
nature is donning her dress of green.
Lawns are ready for moving, alfalfa
is beginning to wave with passing
breezes, forest trees are showing their
leaf buds and some of the earlier fruit
trees appear in rose colors with their
thickly budded bows. Other varieties
of fruits are backward and will not
bloom for weeks yet, which may be all
the better for them.
Howard NJ. Hoel will arrive this
week from Ortonville Mimi, to join
his brothers, A. F. Hoel of Delta and
S. C. Hoel of Montrose in establish
ing business college in Grand juno
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