The Delta independent., 1909-08-20

rose visited Mr.. and Mrs. L. D. Hausel
last week.
The North Delta Grocery are paying
highest prices for all kinds of poultry,
produce. butter and eggs. They are
in immediate want of 1000 chickens.
Call on them or phone 513 black.
The Presbyterian Missionary Society
will meet Aug. 9th, Friday. at three,
p. M, with Mrs. A. E Penley. Mrs.
Hubert Williams, leader.
MRS. C. P. BRAGG. Secretary.
Tomatoes are ripe but not quite ripe
enough for the tomato duel to take
place at the fair. However they will
be gradually getting ripper. The duelists
should eat onions in order to be strong.
Mrs. Robert Young and Mrs. Minnie
Taylor will start for Oregon and WASH
ington states next Monday, taking in
the Exposition at Seattle before their
return. Tney expect to spend month
on the trip.
R. II. McNatt was Delta
caller yesterday in company with Mr..
E. B. Hubbard. MIR. Mcnatt is fruit
merchant of Ft. Worth, Texas and
makes annual trips to Delta county in
the interest of his business.
The transfers come up loaded to the
guards from every train; hotels, lodg-
ing houses and restaurants are packed.
and the rush to Delta is yet to come.
Delta is at the topl That is why every
one is trying to get there"
DIR. Peairs, city physician of Pueblo,
accompanied by his brother, superin-
tendent of the Haskell Indian School
and the Treasurer of the same county,
were Delta visitors this week, being
shown around by Bruce and Myers.
Sales of Delta county farm and
orchard land will be plenty this fall
and winter, provided the present own
ers will consent to part with their
They have the right to sell
or not, as they please. They saw it
first.
Paul Wilson was in Delta Sunday,
being en-route to Palisade from Hotch-
kiss. Mr.. Wilson, in speaking of the
prospective tomato battle at the Delta
County Fair said: Il think we can
send a team that can make the Delta
or any other team look like a garbage
brigade.
Hundreds of people visit the Grand
Mesa lakes each summer and fall.
There is good point for a resort. A
hotel up there would be well patro-
nized through the fishing season. AT
present the only thing seems to be to
camp. though few own cabins near
the lakes.
The matter of fruit picking should
interest many throughout the state.
Those who wish can get to Delta
county at a reduced rate, can. by help
ing in the fruit harvest, not only help
to save it but also earn good wages.
Come out and help in the Delta county
fruit harvest.
Veteran and Mrs. D. 'Edgington. of
Kansas, are in town on their way home
from Salt Lake. Mr. Edgington is
brother-in-law of H. d. Hinton. one of
our sheep men, and they spent few
days on Grand Mesa. When ready to
start for home they We're detained by
the washouts. They were here last
February and were then detained by
snow blockades.
Loads of fruit crates and boxes are
going out every day and early varieties
of apolac yaa,bee apd rl,,rpc ara com-
ing to market in considerable quantity.
This week will about finish the cherries,
while last week ended the berry season.
Elberta peaches will begin to move IN
the next two or three weeks. From
now until freezing. the fruit harvest
will be very busy one.
The Delta Electric Light company
is making many improvements and
should soon be in position to give us an
all-day as well as all-night current.
This they would doubtless be willing to
do at any time their patrons would
make the matter possible by putting in
the many useful. comforting and labor
saving household and power devices
which would meet the necessary ex-
penses for day current.
Mr. and Mrs. f. d. Shellenberger,
of Mound City, Mo-, with Miss Vera
Learn and Miss Fannie Poynter. left
for their Missouri home yesterday. Mr..
and Mrs. Shellenberger have enjoyed
five weeks visit with their daughter,
Mrs. G. p Meyer and her husband, of
the Meyer Mercantile Company and
others of the family in Delta. Miss
Learn has also been here for the same
length of time, while Miss Poynter has