The Delta independent., 1910-02-11

Monday. He reports a good deal of
Improvement for Austin this season.
Another store has been opened up there
and there is good prospects for bank
this summer as well as many other i'm
provements. Some big sales have
been made in the vicinity of Austin
during the past few months.
Paonia Newspaper.
Bertie Clark was up from Delta
part of the week visiting with relatives
and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard Hart and little
son, lett for Cedaredge Tuesday for
short visit with Mrs. Hart's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Martin.
Mrs. Sherman Allison who has been
suffering for the past two weeks with
a severe case of blood poisoning is no
better at the present writing.
If there be any lesson well learned
from the recent fruit shows and insti-
tutes it is that Paonia is under the
necessity of raising the standard of her
fruit pack.
Thursday, ranchers were hauling loads
of apples to the depot for shipment.
1t is reported that there are many car
loads still held by orchardists to be
shipped later.
Clarence Nelson and daughter Mar
garet, returned home the fore part of
the week from Denver where they have
been visiting with relatives since the
Apple Show. Mrs. Nelson will arrive
home later, she having been confined to
the hospital on account of illness and
not vet able to stand the return trip.
North Fork Times
w. F. Simonton and family returned
this week from Oregon points where
they have been for several months past.
George Webb of Hanson mesa went
to Salida yesterday morning. He will
be operated on in the Red Cross hospital
at that place.
Miss Armand, trained nurse, has left
Mrs Ed Dukes, the latter having re-
covered sufficiently from her recent i'll
ness to be up and around.
We are glad to report that Mrs. W
S. Reynolds who has been seriously i'll
for several weeks is gradually improv
ing and will soon be out of danger.
Mrs. Reynolds underwent very
critical operation last week and it was
thought for a time that she would not
be able to recover.
A meeting was held at Lazear We'd
nesday for the purpose of organizing a
company to furnish domestic water for
the town of Lazear and in fact the
whole of Rogers mesa. The new COM
pany will be Incorporated for $50, 900.
You can't get ahead of Rogers mesa
when it comes to making improve
ments.
Surveyors are at work on the or
chards of the Hotchkiss- Lszear Orchard
Company, cutting it up into five and
ten acre tracts. They expect to dis
pose of considerable portion of this
land during the coming season. From
fifty to one hundred acres of their raw
land will also be cleared and set to
trees in the spring.
The bid for building Hotchkiss new
: high school building were opened Tues
day evening of this week and the con-
tract for the work was awarded to N.
H. Rogers of Montrose, who offers to
erect the building complete, exclusive
of the heating, for the sum of Sl3 72O
The contract calls for the completion of
the building by the first of August, so
work will probably be commenced as
soon as the weather will permit. The
bids for putting up the new building
ran as high as SIG, 6,775.
Olathe Criterion.
Marion Jones of Ash mesa left last
Wednesday for short visit with
friends in Nebraska.
Lloyd Mcclure of Ash mesa happened
to have very bad streak of luck, one
of his horses being kicked SO badly that
it may have to be killed.
Mrs. Olive A. Brownell, the wife of
the pastor of the Baptist church, died
at her home, the Baptist parsonage, at
l 80 a. m. February l, 1910.
George Anderson from Gunnison
spent part of last week here with rela-
tives, I'll Jones and family and M. l..
McIntire and family of Ash mesa.
| Mr.. Duckett and family have moved
from Delta to Mr.. Potters on Califor-
mia mesa. Mr.. Duckett will assist him
with his farm work this coming sum-
mer.
Smith Brothers of California mesa
are in the lead when it comes to max
ing money from chickens having sold