The Delta independent., 1910-07-15

July 9Th.
]. G. Miller of Ridgeway, was ap-
pointed station agent at Montrose
last week.
New Delta county map, 3S x "a
inches, for sale by T. N. Stevens,
Gale building. IT,
Miss Sarah King of Georgetown,
is here this week in the interest
of her school work.
Fred Brown and family came
down from Telluride Sunday and are
visiting friends in the city.
The case argued yesterday morn
ing between City Attorney Dicker-
son and Boss Reed, was settled out
of court
For Sale or Rent-4-room house,
barn, cellar and out buildings, 2
acres of land with pasture for COW.
a mile from the city. Address Box
All, Delta, Colorado
Quite a lot of Delta people went
to Grand Junction yesterday on the
excursion that was run from Ouray
to take people to the opening of the
Grand Junction and Interurban rail
road
An assault case fl ON Read vicinity
was tried in Justice Fairlamb's court
Wednesday, but the jury was unable
to agree upon a verdict. This was
the second time the case had been
tried
Nearly every afternoon this week
has been cloudy and threatened rain,
but that is as far as it got. A little
rain would be appreciated just now
to cool things off as well as to set
tie the dust
church at Sixth and Meeker streets
are going up rapidly. Delta pressed
brick are being used, and the build
ing will be a handsome structure
when completed.
Red and black raspberries are
getting scarce, as are also cherries.
Some dewberries are promised for
next week. Apricots have been in
market for a week and early peach
es will soon be along
Mr.. and Mrs. c. p. Bragg write
their father and mother, Captain and
Mrs. Bragg in Delta, that they have
spent several days of their travel
each in Denver, Chicago, Washing
ton and Hampton Roads; arrived in
New York City July Sth and were
headed west to Ohio points.
The Linotype Bulletin, published
in New York City. pays a high trib-
pearance of The Delta Independent.
The Independent is the only paper in
Delta county that is set in type by
machinery, and, owing to the large
volume of local reading matter by
which it is made the leading paper,
ii enjoys by far the largest circula-
tion of any newspaper published in
Delta county.
The Independents splendid con-
tinued story, AN Heir to Millions"
will close with the issue of August
5. Those who are reading it pro-
nounce it one of the best stories
TO come within their observation. If
you have not read the preceding
chapters, you can get very good
idea of the story from the synopsis
which appears under the heading of
the story in this issue, and should
by all means take it up now.
Quite a complaint is being made
by the people on the mesa, of not
having water enough to use. Some
OF the town people are inclined to
be hoggish with water. in the way
of using it out side of the regular
hours prescribed and as result the
people on the mesa suffer. They
claim that on the average day they
have no water at all after 800 o.
clock a. m. and are compelled to
catch and reserve enough for their
use through the day. before that
time.
G. NJ. Gwinn and wife of Essex,
Iowa. came in Sunday evening of last
week and are stopping with their
old time friends, Mr.. and Mrs. J. Z.
Moore. Our readers will remember
Mr.. Gwynn purchased the Bailey
Phillips 2O0-acre orchard ranch. now
,uown ac Sunny Side Fruit Ranch,
on lower Surface Creek. Mr. Gwinn
is making ready to prepare the
sround for planting 5000 more apple
work on a large scale to prepare the
trees next spring. This. with the 75
scres of fine orchard just coming
into bearing will soon make this one