The Delta independent., 1910-02-18
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Representative Whiting is in Cripple
Creek this week.
Henry L. Spencer, of the forest SER
vice, is in Denver.
Surveyor ]. A. Curtis had business in
Montrose Tuesday.
Enough snowfall Tuesday night to
whiten the ground.
Weather sharps still contend that we
are to have an early spring.
When you are down in the mouth
remember Jonah; he came out all right
Optional farm and business property
loans at seven per cent.
MmLARD FAIRLAMB.
Losr-Horse blanket about one mile
west of North Delta. Finder return to
this office.
The cold wave which hit US Tuesday
seems to have passed and We have
warm, sunny days again.
H.o. Bear. of the Delta Land Com
pany, visited Grand Junction early this
week, returning Tuesday.
Frank Manear has opened a confec-
tioncry and cigar store in the building
next door north of the opera house.
Quite number from over the county
and from the outside have been in Delta
this week attending district court.
The resources of Delta county are
well averaged and all the tillable por
tions are high grade. This has been
amply proven.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Cook and daugh-
ter. who have been visiting different
points in Southern California are ex-
pected home Sunday.
7. X. Seaton returned Tuesday from
Denver, where he had been in connec-
ton with the matter of incorporating a
Delta sugar company.
Phone 23i Red when you want strict.
ly fresh eggs. sweet ranch butter and
fancy dressed poultry. DELANEY &
IsHAM. Dealers in Good Things"
S. H. Reesman, of Lincoln, Nebraska,
who has been spending the winter on
the Texas coast. arrived in Delta this
week to look over the country.
The past six weeks have been fairly
favorable to range stock. the valleys be-
ing free from snow and much of the
foothills bare up to high range.
Editor Hopkins. of the Crawford
Chronicle was down this week serving
as juryman. B. N. Crawford was also
here for the same purpose but got off
for home Wednesday.
S. A. Haynes and family arrived
from Hastings. Neb. this week and will
reside on the Dawar ranch near Austin.
which Mr.. Haynes and C. A. Fergus
purchased two years ago.
w. G. Henry, state organizer, late of
California, will begin a series of lect-
ures at the Gayey theater next Sunday
at 2:30 p. m. Admission free. The
public is cordially invited.
When out shopping visit our ct ea
ROOM" we want to get acquainted
with you and want you to sample our
teas and coffees DELANEY & lsHAM,
Dealers in "Good Things
The Wire Baird realty Company re-
port the sale this week of the julius
Borden 20 acres on California mesa
about ~, miles south of Delta, G. w.
Ledpewood of North Delta. Consider
alton $4,000.
N. +. Clack arrived home from the
South. Sunday, Mrs. Clack going down
to Denver to meet him. MIR. Clack
returns greatly improved in health,
having gained some 20 pounds in weight.
This he attributes to 'possum and other
good things to eat, to Southern hospi-
tality and to generally beneficial
change.
E. l.. Phillips and S. G. Platt. OF
Palisade, were here last week looking
over the country and making invest
ments. While here they purchased the
interests of DR.. Thomas Phillips and
Mrs. +. G. Phillips in land on Cedar.
or what is more lately called Fruit
Breeze mesa, Surface Creek. Both
Young men are horticultural graduates
and are besides. fairly we'll acauaint ed
with the qualities OF Western Slope
lands.