The Delta independent., 1910-07-01
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

| Miss Sarah Hickman returned
Wednesday from a two weeks visit
in Montrose.
Optional farm and business prop
erty loans at seven per cent. Mil
lard Fairlamb. 80
c. C. Sampson and sister. Mrs.
r. H. Storm, are visiting their
brother and sister-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Wat Sampson of Ouray.
C. T. Cox and p. NJ. Hysaw are new
arrivals in Delta, coming from La
Junta They are contractors and
builders and may locate here.
w. E. Obert went to Montrose
Tuesday to help check up priorities
for the water users meeting which
will be held at Olathe Thursday.
The Catholic ladies will give
dance on the evening of July 4th
at the opera house. Music by Vance
orchestra. Refreshments Is cents.
Miss Irma Singleton will leave to-
morrow for Fort Collins for visit
With her brother Harry and wife.
She will be gone until September /.
Next Monday is the big day and
Delta is promised a big crowd to
help celebrate the anniversary of
the nations independence. Let the
eagle scream.
Mr.. and Mrs. Myron Porges and
little child, with the two daughters
of Mr. S. Porges, Misses Nellie and
Winda, are visiting in Delta from
Cripple Creek.
| DIR. Virgil Thompson, formerly of
Hotchkiss, but who has been taking
a postgraduate course in Indiana the
past year, returned Saturday and
may locate in Delta.
John Scruggs and family left for
Ouray Monday. where they go to
locate MIR. Scruggs has been en-
ployed for some time in the meat
market of John Kurz.
In almost every Montrose paper
can be read accounts OF drunks be-
Ing fined, or something about boot
Logging cases There doesen't seem
to be anything of that sort to report
in Delta.
T. J. Folawn painted the new
signs on The Independent windows
and they are dandies. Mr. Folawn
has done much other fine sign work.
around Delta He has located here
and proven himself one of the best
sign painters the city has ever pos
s.-ssed.
Three horses came down from
Hotchkiss "Wednesday and on the
same day three arrived from Grand
Junction. All will go into track
! practice for the 4th of July races.
Delta county has a score of speed
1 ers and some of them will win or
make the others know they are
going.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Charles p.
Aicher in Delta. June 2Sth, ten
pound girl. Connected herewith are
two condolences; The 2Sth of June
is Mr.. Aicher's birthday. Also Mr..
Aicher has only owned farm in
Delta county for about two months.
which attests the awful richness of
our soil Parents and daughter are
reported doing well.
The beet sugar factory matter
would appear too far along to let go
/ of. and IL is to be hoped that the
small amount of stock which il is
claimed remains to he taken will
speedily be placed and the project
he in shape to begin work. Delta
H. field for a sugar factory, already
producing the beets and possessing
all the requirements which go to
make sugar factory location desir-
able.
T. l.. Beardsley has again purchas-
ed land near Delta. A few months
ago Mr. Beardsley left Delta and un-
derwent a surgical operation which
entirely restored him to health. Prev
ious to that time he had sold his
holdings here believing he would be
compelled to seek a permanent To-
cation elsewhere. After travelling
through the Northwestern states and
along the Pacific coast. he looked
upon Delta as his favorite and has
re-invested in land here.
Messrs. Snyder. Tyler and w. H.
Anderson of The Independent office.
were driven to Paonia Sunday by
F.. l.. (Barney Oldfield) Ray, in the
latter's automobile. The roads were
very rough and dusty a greater por-
ton of the way. but Barney" proved
to be very efficient driver and the
round trip was made without any
mishap whatever. The ride over
Rogers and Paynes mesas was
very delightful one. The orchards
In that section are loaded down with
fruit Mr.. Ray says that from an
artistic point of view. Hansons mesa
is the most beautiful of them all. We
are not an artist. so we did not dis
pute him.
The cooler weather of the past
few days has been an absolute re-