The Delta independent., 1910-02-18
Will Williams spent several days of
+b;a ueek in Glenwood Springs.


this week attending district court.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Cowell left yes
terday for ten days visit in Missouri.
WANTED-2OO bushels seed oats. See
DR.. Kinsley, Hillman Building. 2-tf
M. E. Meyer returned yesterday from
a trip to Denver on automobile busi-
ness.
Frank Mexican and bride are here
from Cedaredge attending district
court.
T. L. Beardsley returned to Delta
Saturday after spending tile winter in
Denver.
A marriage license was issued We'd
nesday to Charles ]. Cowan and Leona
Walling, both of Paonia.
Attorney S. L. Sherman of Montrose
who spent few days here this week
returned home yesterday.
Mrs. H. K Ferguson and daughte-
Marion left Wednesday for Houston,
Texas, for the benefit of the latter's
health.
Thomas Gale left Wednesday for
Palo Alto, California, where he will
ioin his wife and make tour of south
ern California.
Archdeacon Lyon held services in
Cedaredge Tuesday night. He also
organized Guild which will be known
as ST. Peters.
Welch & Merrill report the sale of 20
/ sl al 7
to B. F. Rostock, of Illinois. Consid-
Grafton s175 per acre.
Mrs. Evan Williams, who has been
here several weeks visiting at the home
of Jerry Williams, returned yesterday
to her home in Lnjane.
Man and family coming to Delta want
to rent five or six-room house, starting
March lst. Apply Secretary Business
Mems Association. 2-u
Chas. Oliver and Geo. H. Merchant
were in town from Paonia this week.
Mr.. Merchant was the first superin-
I tendent of schools of Delta county.
Mayor B. P. Smith and 7. X. Seaton
returned yesterday from Denver. They
report DR.. Gibbs much improved in
health and say he will be able to come
home next week.
George W. Allen and Miss Minnie
McCombe of Yates Center, Kansas. ap-
piled for marriage license early this
week and were refused. owing to the
young lady not being of age. We un-
derstand, however, that they secured
license in Montrose the next day and
were married there.
The big public sale of A j. Meacham
on Ash mesa, miles Southeast of
Delta. February oath, should not be
overlooked. Mr.. Meacham will sell
horses. cows. colts, farm machinery
and utensils, household goods, includ-
ing large amount of valuable and
desirable property. Remember the
date and attend this sale.
w. c. Downing was here from
Hotchkiss Monday. MIR. Downing still
owns his ranch down the Gunnison on
which he took first premium for best 5
acres of beets in the beginning of sugar
beet raising up this way. He has
recently sold certain property interests
up the North Fork. and in case of SELL
ing others as he anticipates, he may
return to the Gunnison river ranch four
miles below Delta.
Herman Elliot has been busy the last
week laying out drainage and tile sys-
TENS on the ranches of Adam Schaefer,
George Mcknight, Wilson and others.
Farmers are all realizing the necessity
of drainage and are all going into it.
1t is believed that a considerable part of
the Uncompahgre valley will have to
be drained and tiled when the water is
through the Gunnison tunnel. The work
so far done has been done by the gov
ernment to show what results could be
obtained that way.
In many places the winter has been
marked by more or less of sickness.
Delta county, according to the doctors,
has been rather more than normally
healthy We have had few scatter
ing cases of Contagious diseases which
have been easily taken care of and are
now cleared up. There has been very
little pneumonia or typhoid fever. At
Grand Junction there is said to be
small epidemic of typhoid. In some
sections of the state scarlet fever and
small pox are reported in virulent form.