The Delta independent., 1909-02-12
w. P. Dale is farming some.
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w. P. Dale is farming some.
Mrs. Thomas Lamb is visiting friends
in Denver.
A big crowd of Delta Knights went
to Grand Junction yesterday to attend
the Pythian convention.
Mrs. Minnie Taylor and Mrs. Robert
Young, of Dodge street. spent Monday
and Tuesday at the ranch home of Mr..
and Mrs. George Young.
Miss Pearle Lincoln, who has been
visiting relatives and friends in Gales
burg, Illinois, for several months, re-
turned to Delta Sunday.
DR.. H. A. Smith went to Paonia on
Tuesday returning on Wednesday. The
Dr's. practice is growing, his work
calling him to every town in the
county.
E. F. Hubbard was in from his fruit
farm yesterday. Mr.. Hubbard is en-
thusastic over the fine weather we are
having and the good prospects for a
full fruit crop.
Remember Louis Owens big live
stock, machinery, implement, poultry
and household goods sale. See bills
for particulars. Feb. 18th, 1909 at 9
O'Clock a. m. sharp.
The North Delta W. C. T. U. will
hold a Francis Willard Memorial SER
vice and serve refreshments at the
home of Mrs. John Reed in North Delta
next Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. A. Clark was the victim of an
attack of neuralgia the early part of
the week but is now convalscent. She
expects to go to Denver next week to
get the spring millinery styles.
Next weeks INDEPENDENT will be
largely devoted to resource matter for
Delta county. 1t will be the mid-winter
special, little belsted but good pa
per to send out for publicity purposes.
B. W. Handley and A. J. Mullings
left on Tuesday afternoon for Grand
junction. These gentlemen were the
detectives for the ID. & r. G. who
captured the box-car thief Moore in
Utah and brought him to Delta.
! Pastor Hayworth welcomed a large
number of new members at last Sun
days communion service and baptized
a class of new members, making a
total of 81 new members received dur
ing the present pastorate of eighteen
months.
Little Alene Baird. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. H. ]. Baird of this city, met
with very painful accident last week
by pulling over kettle of hot water,
resulting in bad scalds. We are glad
to learn that the little girl is recover
ing nicely.
The amount of snow stored in the
mountains this winter should make the
Gunnison tunnel look like thirty cents
Perhaps, though, we can't arrange to
get it over the desert land as well as
when the tunnel and its bitches are
completed.
B. L. Bertram. manager of the
Tongue Creek Orchard Company
ranch, and wife were guests at the
Otis Hogrefe home from Sunday unit
Tuesday of this week. Mr.. Bertran
lS lOOklnR IOIWdiu " q ASS'P'o>HSA'N
year on the ranch.
/ Many mountain towns have beer
showed in, some of them being without
mails from days to weeks. 1t has beer
one of the most rigorous mountain
winters on record. At Delta there II
no snow and the temperature is mild
freezing some of nights but thawinR
through the day.
Attorney Merle D. Vincent went t.
Montrose on Tuesday morning to attent
some land Office cases he had on hand
returning to Delta in the afternoon, il
time for his cases to be tried here OF
Wednesday. The cases being post
poned, Mr.. Vincent returned to Paonis
Wednesday afternoon.
Sylvester Long met with the usua
enthusiastic praise in Delta accorded
his lectures everywhere. Mr.. Long il
one of the best in the lecture field, hii
language, argument and expression be
ing convincing and captivating. Sun
day afternoon at the Baptist church hi
made free talk TO very large as
semblage on the subject: why W.
Live"
Boss Reed had an unusual streak oi
industry seize him last Tuesday. He
bought a broom and swept out hii
office. Then he borrowed Joe Boyd's
dust pan and proceeded to take up the
dust. He cut his second finger on the
right hand quite severely on the sharT
edge Of the tin. AS result he will