The Delta independent., 1910-12-23

Fruit men of Rife decide that
apples must hereafter be packed
true to name and variety
Remember The Poultry Show.
January End to 7th, Delta's first
poultry exhibition will be a big one
Fine birds will be here from all parts
OF the Western Slope.
L. c. Jones, of the Kokomo Dairy,
had a runaway Monday, in which
mis- milk wagon was badly damaged.
Mr.. Jones has been having a pretty
steady run of hard luck the past few
months, but he remains good ma
tUred.
The Denver papers blame Clinton
Oliver for the success of the recent
Apple Congress. 1t seems pretty
tough to lay it on a poor country boy
when everybody knows it was Sam
Dutton of the Albany hotel, who was
to blame. Sam was father, mother
and wet nurse of the infant.
Mrs. F. C. Harrington left last
Friday for visit to Pawnee City,
Nebraska, where she will remain
about two weeks From there she
will visit Clarinda, Iowa, Lincoln.
Nebraska and Stokton, Kansa At
the latter city she will visit DIR.
Scott, formerly of Delta, and will
return some time in January.
Three tramps who gave their
names as Ingam Adams, John
Williams and Frank Ryan, robbed
the Hugus store at Clifton Saturday
night. They We're followed and
captured, but not until a bullet
from a rifle in the hands of
ranchman w. H. Harrison, one of
the pursuing parties, had killed
Ryan.
cellent ranch south of town the
District Attorney and Mrs. R. NJ.
Logan left the first of this week for
Ohio, to visit the Judges old home
which he has been away from for
twenty-five years They viii be away
about two months. Deputy District
Attorney Charlesworth will take
care of the business of the District
Attorneys office during Judge Lo-
gan's absence
While the holiday trade has per-
haps fallen below that of last year,
still there has been lois of buying ami
the snow storm this week helped
cut a little. The stocks Were. if
anything, better than ever before
to select from, but money has not
been as plentiful as il was last fall,
when the exceptional fruit crop with
it's exceptional market, brought in
s3.000,0O0 in excess of that of the
present season. Still other crops
have been good and Santa Claus has
reaped a very respectable harvest.
The Independent believes in eSpan-
sion in its true sense. A growing
country should expand to meet the
requirements of its population. This
applies to every branch of business
and Industry as well as territory.
We can believe in a larger army
and an increased navy, whether they
are required for the nations defense
or not The nation can afford it,
and the money might better go to-
ward the support of surplus popu-
lation than into the various classes
of graft into which public moneys
appear to be drifting.
The sugar factory at Grand juno
tion closed its seasons work last
Sunday. The papers of that city
credit 1t with treating $4,000 tons
of beets. which were converted into
lOO,000 sacks of sugar. II the fig
ures are correct they indicate that
the seasons supply of beets raised
in the entire territory of the factory
was from 10000 to 10000 tons less
than could have been handled by
the factory this season. To have
made 100000 worth of sugar is
something. but double that amount
would have been much better.