The Delta independent., 1910-03-11

Houses cannot be built fast enough
to supply the increasing demand.
A. ]. worse left yesterday morning
for brief business trip to Pueblo.
st. Luke's Guild met with Mrs. Peter
Mundry Wednesday afternoon.
Miss Ward, of the Roubideaux
school, visited friends in Delta Sunday.
w. F. Hornsby visited in Grand juno
tion this week, returning yesterday.
See tee MANDY Lee" incubators in
operation at the De Laney & Isham
store.
Miss Ethel Baer was down over Sun
day from Elberta, where she teaches
school.
w. w. Sankey returned Sundsy from
Hotchkiss where he had been on short
business trip.
Mrs. Doughty, mother of Dan
Doughty, is reported seriously i'll at the
home of her son.
Miss Burgess, one of the teachers in
the Paonia school, spent Sunday with
relatives in Delta.
The City is laying the new water
main along Main stteet, employing
quite large force.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Wilson spent
several days in Delta this week the
guests of Geo c. Wilson.
Optional farm and business property
loans at seven per cent.
MILLARD FAIRLAMB.
Fifteen acres for sale on Garnet
mesa, within one mile of Delta post
Office. See display ad in this paper.
Clarence Wagner of Ouray. was
down this week on a visit to relatives
here and to get out of the snow few
days.
Judge NJ. R. Welch was in Hotch
kiss Wednesday attending a special
meeting of the Independent Telephone
Company.
Two more brick houses are being
built on Howard street by W. R. John
son. One has already been rented by
Leonard Baird.
Mrs. l.. L. Billings was called to her
old home this morning on receipt of
news of the serious illness of her moth
er, at Guthrie City, Oklahoma.
A. w. Carr, who was with Mr.. and
Mrs. George Stephan in Florida, ar
rived home Wednesday. Mr.. and Mrs.
Stephan will be home about April 1st.
Veteran r. ]. Coffey, who has been
critically i'll for some weeks, was re-
ported very low yesterday and it was
thought that he was nearing the end of
life.
E. NJ. Ballard came down from Pao-
MIA the first of the week to meet his
wife, who was returning from Califor-
MIA. Mrs Ballard was delayed on ac-
count of washouts and was eleven days
on the way.
A. r. Chapman. who conducts the
shooting gallery on Main street, brought
his family down from Paonia last week
but was forced to send them back until
he was able to secure a house. there
being none available at the present
time.
De Laney 4 Isham are giving away
a ten-piece Toilet Set to the customer
with the greatest amount of coupons
March 3lst, 1910. See that you get
coupons with every purchase. Your
friends coupons are also good, all being
interchange cable.
C. A. Poff, local manager of the Colo
RADIO Telephone Company, will leave
tomorrow for Denver where he has
been transferred. Mr.. Poff has been
in Delta about year and half and
has made many warm friends who will
regret to learn of his departure.
Mrs. Snyder was quite badly bruised
in runaway last FIR day, while she and
her daughter were driving from the de-
pot to Der sons home on Garnet mesa.
Mrs and Miss Snyder live in northern
Illinois, and We're here on visit. They
were here about a year ago. Mrs.
Snyder, we learn, is nicely recovering.
Verne Rawalt, of Paonia, passed
through Delta Monday enroute to Den
yer. Verne stated that he and his
parents were contemplating move to
Montezuma county in the near future.
The cause of the step were the praises
sent back by Randolph Williamson and
other Paonia people who have gone
down there.
A. r. Chapman returned to his shoot
ing gallery one evening this week, after
being across the street. and found Fred
Jacobs, small boy, going through his
money drawer. The boy started to run