The Delta independent., 1909-10-01

October lst will bring in the regu lar
quarterly session of the board of coun-
ty commissioners, fall term.
Friends of DIR. Burgin were pleased
to see him out auto riding with others
yesterday. after his number of weeks
confinement to his home by illness.
The city wants bids for building a
reinforced concrete reservoir and will
receive such up to October 2lst. See
notice published elsewhere in this
paper.
When you want nice, fresh, sweet
butter and strictly fresh eggs, phone
512 Black, The North Delta Grocery
& Produce Co. We also pay highest
cash prices tor poultry, eggs. butter,
fruits and produce, belgian hares and
cottontalls. Phone US and we will
call. "a
The Presbyterian ladies give dinner
at the new Penley building both this
afternoon and tomorrow afternoon,
O'Clock to seven. This seems an ap-
propriate way of dedicating feed
store, and, of course, the ladies will
dish up good things that are not alfalfa
and oats
The deer season opens to-day and
several Delta parties are already off
for the higher game fields. The season
is short this year, only remaining open
until the 10th. Deer have been re-
ported fairly plentiful in their accus-
toned haunts and most hunters have
high hopes of bagging one before the
short season closes.
Delta county weather has been of
the finest for the past three weeks.
Sunshine all the day. The sun gets a
little warm in the afternoon but the
nights are pleasant. There has been,
locally. no electrical storm phenomena
such as on last Saturday disturbed the
East and Central States, stopping the
telegraph instruments and making the
Waterbury watches tick backwards.
G. H. Merchant, who was down
from Paonia as juryman on the burg
lery case, returned home yesterday
evening Mr.. Merchant is highly
pleased with the prosperous condition
of Paonia and the whole county, and
believes that the great crops and ex-
cessive freight necessary to be handled
will encourage the building of our
greatly needed cutoff railroad to Dem
yer, next year.
Some road work is needed below the
county line south. which Montrose
county refuses to perform. The roads
south of Delta down to the county line
have been put in fine shape, for which
the people living down that way warm
ly praise the commissioners and road
overseers of this county. Many living
farther down want to come to Delta to
trsie, and it is likely they will get help
from this county to give them good
roads.
The INDEPENDENT is pleased to note
the presence this summer and fall, of
many of its subscribers in Delta, who
live in other states. Some of them are
already property owners here but
would invest more extensively, while
others have not become owners but are
looking around for something to suit
them. All of them are pleased and i'm
pressed with what the INDEPENDENT
has continuously written about the
country and its resources.
A lot of fellows are going eut to hunt
deer and grouse the first of the week,
and the INDEPENDENT man. greatly as
he may dislike to tear himself away
from the privilege and pleasure of
writing Jake Jones or Pete Smith
came to town Wednesday,, may con-
clude to go with them. The paper
will be issued as usual, however-no
preventing Providence. and will be, as
ever on the occasions of the editors
absence, considerably better.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Zuetell left yes
terday for their home in Chicago, after
spending the summer at their ranch
near Austin. Mr.. Zuetell will be back
next spring. He said before going: Il
really hate to go back to the city. We
have been on trip to California and
Pacific coast points and have seen
nothing we like so we'll as Colorado.
Besides, am well satisfied with my
investment in Delta county. l got just
double the amount of peaches from it l
had figured on getting; have the crop
sold and the money in my pocket"
A letter received yesterday from
Delta's former mechanical genius and
good citizen, G. c. English, asked that
his naner be mailed to him at Ricarais