The Delta independent., 1909-05-14
Twenty-four teachers are employed
in the Delta public schools.

in the Delta public schools.
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place and don't want to miss anything.
DIR. Virgil Thompson was down from
Hotchkiss yesterday attending the Sum-
day School Convention.
Killian and Kistler and R. S. Kelso
have brought in quite number of car
loads of steers this week.
Mine Host Rowbotham, of the popu-
lar Cedaredge hotel, with Mrs Row
botham, were Delta visitors Wednes-
day.
The Mothers Club meet with Mrs.
DR.. johnson Friday May 81, at o'clock
p. m. A cordial invitation is extended
to all.
Mr.. Joseph Hogrefe writes from
Albany, Oregon, requesting that the
INDEPENDENT be mailed to him there
for the present.
The Delta National Bank has a very
nice thermometer out as an ADVERTISE
ment, one of which las been left at
the INDEPENDENT office.
The Colorado Fruit Growers Associa-
ton has spraying supplies at Delta and
Saxton. Arsenate of Lead $ll.5O and
$1,000. Black Leaf, 9Uc per gallon.
A fire alarm was given at about
midnight Wednesday, when it was
discovered that a fence back CT Single
tons was on fire. The danger was
quickly overcome.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cooper and daughter of
Minnesota are in Delta for a visit and
Mrs. Cooper will spend much of the
summer here, visiting with their
daughter, Mrs. Roy l.. Smith.
Henderson Seets of Cedaredge is here
having a badly swollen arm looked after.
The case is one of blood poisoning, re-
sulting from slight cut. tits thought
now to be past the danger period.
A. H. Honold, district agent for the
farm branch of Phoenix Insurance Co.,
including Grand junction and Delta
districts, is contemplating moving his
headquarters from Grand Junction to
Delta.
The newspaper which does its part is
entitled to whatever laurels it may
gain. The INDEPENDENT is a home
production and is expending to the
limit of its income in the cost of its
publication.
Those fruit growers living nearer
Saxton than Delta may save time by
getting their spraying supplies of the
Colorado Fruit Growers Association.
Arsenate of Lead at either place, Sll.50
and sl2. Black Leaf, 90c per gallon.
Misses Phoebe Mills and Beulah
Black, who have been visiting at the
home of DIR. Hick, left on Mondays
train for Ottawa, ILL.,, accompanied by
Mrs. Byram Luce, who will spend
several months with them in the East.
To Eldon Hauser and his able as
sistant editors, belongs the credit of
getting up the best High School An
nusl ever Used in Delta. The Deltoni-
an reflects progress, worth. ability,
manhood and womanhood of highest
type.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burton II. Corbett and
daughter were down from Paonia
yesterday. Mr.. Corbett being en-route
weeks business trip. Mrs. Corbett
and daughter returned to Paonia on
the evening train.
From this time on through the sea-
son the country districts will continue
to gain interest. Fields of growing
crops and orchards full of fruit are
always an attractive sight. Then, too,
the roads are good and many of the
lanes have rows of shade trees which
add to the beauty of the landscape.
Through the efforts of Asa Adams
and others, the log which threatened
the north pier of the bridge was sue
cessfully removed. A few minutes
later, while a number of people were
on the bridge, the pier sank about six
inches. Had the log been permitted to
remain few hours longer, the pier
might have been swept away.
At this date orchards are still promis-
ing and indications point to more fruit
than the trees can bear, in the case of
apples, and the same will apply to many
peach orchards. In fact nearly all
varieties of fruit now promise full
crop. There are parts of orchards
more damaged, but only in exposed
portions and where not smudged, and
of early varieties.
Prof. Moody went with the Delta
High School athletes to Boulder yester-