The Delta independent., 1910-03-18

Judge Mcleod, of Leadville, was IN
Delta on business Wednesday.
J.B. Stetson, of Hawley, Minnesota,
is now j. R. Stetson of Delta.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence d. KING
were in from Eckert yesterday.
P. Morgensen, district organizer W.
o. W., was in Delta yesterday from
Grand Junction.
Miss Una Hogue, of Salida, arrived
yesterday and is the guest OF her sister,
Mrs. j. b. Rhonemus.
Delta Lodge, No. 62, A. F. ga M.
will hold a special co mm1nlcation 10
night for degree work.
Mrs. Mary A. Williams. sons and
daughter, left Wednesday for Medtord'
Oregon, where they go to locate.
Jeffers' garage is now nearly COM
pleted, except some little gables that
are being built in the roof for the
honks.
Mrs.. Thomas Warren, sister OF
Frank Sanders, whom he had not seen
for thirty years, is here with her nus
band and family visiting him.
J. B. Ratekn returned this week
from two months trip to California,
He reports nice time but did not ike
any country he saw as well as he likes
Delta county.
County teachers examinations were
held yesterday and today at Delta and
Hotckiss. Superintendent Mrs. Ander-
son went to Hotchkiss while Mrs. w.
H. Burnett held the exams in Delta.
The interior of the INDEPENDENT
office is being painted white and the wall
made white this week. 1t will be
a white office, the paper is white and
the people who do the work will try to
treat everybody white.
Mrs. Florence Hall of Paonia was last
week taken to the asylum for the
insane at Pueblo, her malady being of
a violent character. 1t is said that
religious enthusiasm was in part re-
sponsible for her condition.
The Christian Science Lecture at
Montrose to have been held tonight,
has been declared off because of small
pox in that city. The authorities have
decided not to permit public gatherings
until danger of spreading the disease
has passed.
There is considerable difference be-
tween papers like the INDEPENDENT and
those country newspapers which are
published in sections where there is
neither business or news, and whose
editors have all their time to think up
funny or smart things to say.
A mass meeting of the people of
Delta to discuss the erection of sugar
beet factory, has been called by the
Business Mems Association to meet in
the court house next Monday evening
at 7:30 O'Clock. Everybody turn out
and pack the building to the doors.
Delta has a nice green house on Gar
net mesa and one which the Delta
Floral Company is continually enlarg-
ing and improving. 1t is credit to
the present city and will be also to
Greater Delta, for it will grow with
the demand for its products. Our peo-
pie are proud of it, as they are of all
meritorious Institutions.
A rigorous collection of water rent
was inaugurated by the city this week
and an equally vigorous kick-some of
the language being simply awful-has
,,aal. hx- ba the
mud they have been compelled to drink
a greater part of the time for the past
month. Many of these people seem to
forget the high price of real estate and
the fact that they are being given
enough 'dobie mud in their water to
soon amount to a town lot. Some peo-
pie are hard to satisfy.
Veteran j. f. Whinnery was in from
Read Monday, making calls and getting
reports. Mr., Whinnery is as full of
enthusiasm as boy-which in reality
he is, for his class of men never grow
old-and ne talks with vim about the
new orchard he is starting this spring
ond the order for trees he already has
in. He is one of the old guard who
fought at Gettysburg, and he is fighting
the battle of life as stubbornly and
bravely today as he fought the battles
for the preservation of the Union.
r. c. DenEyck, superintendent third
division-G Grand Junction to Salida-
was in Delta Tuesday looking after d.
& X. G. road interests and, with agent
Schlapp made the INDEPENDENT
pleasant call. MIR. DenEyck is now
getting little time from bucking snow
on Marshall Pass to look after station