The Delta independent., 1909-08-13
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Cattle are doing fine on the range,
now appearing sleek and fat. The
grass is better than common.
Mrs. J. E. Farmer and son, Raymond
left Thursday for Ohio City on visit
to her sister, Mrs. E. G. Dice.
Lawns have shown rem a a bl
growth of grass this summer, requir-
ing to be cut about once a week.
Read the Delta county premium list
published this week. The September
Fair ought to be record breaker.
We have few of those $500 and
Sc. 90 Mems Summer Suits which we
are closing out at 50 90 at Ramsay's.
Delta County Fair and Races Septem-
ber Is, l6 and IT, Remember the dates
This will be Delta county's biggest fair.
T. L. Moore, the pioneer citizen of
Fort Collins, arrived yesterday on a
visit to his daughter, Mrs. T. K Sea-
ton.
The Delta National Bank announces
elsewhere that a new Lincoln penny
will be given to each adult caller Satur-
day.
Dad Lambert's Cedaredge mail
and passenger stage makes regular
daily trips to and from Cedaredge and
is always on time.
Have you tried the Coco-colo, bottled
by the DELTA BoTTLING WORKS and
made with distilled water? Telephone
Black-7l2 and try it. 27-3t
A. W. Carr, the nurseryman, left
this week to visit the big Southern
nurseries. He takes in Kansas City
and St Louis en-route.
Miss Lydia Hughes, having completed
her business course at Grand Junction
and visited the Seattle fair, returned
to Delta for visit last week.
The city has been full of school
ma ms the past week-and pretty ones,
too attending the Teachers Institute,
which has proven great success.
Miss Fern Woodgate. Of the INDE-
PENDENT force. is spending this week
in Salt Lake City. She was accom-
panied on the trip by her mother
All those wanting a copy of the Delta
county fair premium list can have SAINT
by calling on or writing to Ed A.
Stone, secretary of the Fair Associ alton
Engineer John A. Curtis has been
busy making surveys on the mesa
around Delta this week. In fact.
every body is busy in and ground Delta
Mrs. w. E. Ware, formerly Miss
Pearle Lincoln, left Delta Wednesday
to make her home in Denver. The
best wishes of her many friends follow
her.
North Delta s gardens, orchards arc
fields are showing up fine with theil
midsummer crops. North Delta is one
of the prettiest of Delta county's many
beautiful sections.
The INDEPENDENT has had quite q
number of visitors this week and each
had compliment for the paper. A
also been received.
The dog tax should help some on the
city's revenue. There seems to be an
awful lot of dogs and the warm pants
of some of them suggest more than
ordinary discomfort.
We are prepared to store 25 car loads
apples and l5 car loads of potatoes
Can store peaches now. First come.
first served. DELTA Ice AND MERcAN-
TILE Co. Black-7l2. 27-St .
New improvements are constantly
being planned in Delta. and. because of
the big crops this year. many sub
stantial farm improvements are likely
to follow. all over the county.
]. B. Killian. prominent Delta stock
man, received a commission from Judge
Goud, this week to attend as delegate
the Irrigation Congress at Spokane, but
found it impossible to go at this time.
Two errors are noticed in the race
program: The first number should
read 'trotting" instead of ''trot or
pace" and the 500 race for Friday
should be one mile instead of one-half
mile.
Delta is n clean little city of clean,
pretty homes, nice lawns and cement
walks. Compare it, if you please. with
any other town on the Western Slope
and your verdict will be: Delta beats
them all. 3"
Ralph Blachly presented the INpE-
PENDENT with some fine apples last
Friday from their orchard on Garnet
mesa. They We're red and ripe and
mellow. Delta is the home of the big