The Delta independent., 1909-10-01

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the trout at Sapinero.
About twenty baking powder girls
were canvassing Delta this week.
WANTED-Steady job on ranch by
man and wife. Call at this Office.
The apple harvest has just started
in. So has the gathering of the sugar
beet crop.
Will H. Mathers made short busi-
ness trip to Grand Junction the first of
this week.
The apple show in Denver in January
will be the next big publicity feature
for Colorado.
DIR. Mcconnell is now busy seeding
his 300 acres of wheat up in the Surface
Creek section.
Arthur Graham, of Paonia. passed
through Sunday on his way home from
the State fair.
Cider and vinegar are two by-pro-
ducts of the apple crop which should be
very plentiful this year.
DR.. and Mrs. Kingsley have moved
from Denver and will locate here. Mrs.
Kingsley is an aunt of ]. j. Travis.
Mrs. Roy Smith returned from Grand
Junction Wednesday, where she went
to attend the fair and visit friends.
Optional farm and business property
loans at seven per cent
3O-l3t MILLARD FAIRLAMB.
F. H. Mcconnell came home Sunday
from Pueblo, where he was in charge
of Delta county exhibits at the State
Fair
Mr.. Dowd, who has been on the Tom
Dewar place, was pleasant caller at
the INDEPENDENT office the first of this
week
MIR. and Mrs. G. w. Ridley returned
to their home in Grand Junction Sum
day. after spending two weeks in
Delta.
WANTED-By man and wife. we'll
furnished room in private house with
furnace and bath. Address P. o. Box
l52. Delta.
o. V. Meier. with the Delta County
Fruit Growers Association. came in
yesterday from making the rounds of
fruit sections
A newspapers advertising space is
worth just so much and to do its part
in helping to meet expenses it should
be as staple as the price of flour.
Every time you stroll over the city
of Delta you see new buildings spring.
ing up which you knew not of before.
And this happens even to a newspaper
man.
Indications at present are for a late
fall. Such thing is about the only
remaining condition needed to complete
Delta county's glory of achievement
for the present season.
Herbert Galliher, who was thought
dangerously hurt last week by falling
with an electric pole on the concrete
sidewalk. is reported doing nicely
now and on the road to recovery.
The North Fork Fruit Growers Asso-
citation have sold 1000 carloads of
peaches this month for $50. 200. This
makes the best of reading and is the
best class of advertising a section can
have.
t. t. Gwin. of the Crutchfield &
Voolfolk fruit Co, of Pittsburg. Pa . is
looking after the business of his firm in
Delta, which is working in connection
with the Colorado Fruit Growers asso-
citation.
George Young lost valuable COW
Wednesday night She was struck by
a train on the d. &. r. G.. and had a
leg broken besides being otherwise
hurt so badly that it was necessary to
kill her
VIM. Lance has the first story of his
fine new brick residence completed at
his ranch two miles south of Delta.
And so it goes. Good improvements
are the order of the times, in Delta
and all around
The potato crop, like all other Delta
county crops, is good this year, and our
people will not only have an abundant
home supply of the best quality raised
anywhere, but growers will have them
to ship in carload lots.
Big loads of sugar beets are con-
stantly arriving at the loading stations.
And. to make it more binding on the
railroads. the busy coal hauling season
and the moving of the immense apple
crop are also at hand.
Mrs. ]. A. johnson left Monday
afternoon for Los Angeles, California,
to attend the national meeting of the
Woman's Home Missionary Society. of