The Delta independent., 1910-02-04
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and tomorrow.
Sweet ranch butter at the Delaney
& Isham store 25c per lb. Phone 234
Red.
know who put the muck-rake in the
sugar-bowl.
j. H. Burton is out from Ashtabula,
Ohio, for visit and looking after prop
erty interests.
Mr.. Shellhorn played with much
warmth and correct reading the two
Sonatss Op. 80 and ITO by Beethoven,
but it was in the Rachmaninoff Op. 13
where he showed his skill and superior
talent as an interpreter of the modern
school. Musical Courier, IN. "
The Wire Baird Realty Co., this
week sold the seven lots near the depot,
now occupied by the Chinese restaurant.
to John Peterson for consideration of
%. 900. They also sold Mrs. Persons
ranch on California mesa to j. Duvall
of Nebraska, for a consideration Of
Sc, 500.
A carload of alfalfa seed arrived in
Delta this week from Hamburg, Ger
many. The contents of the car, which
was consigned to the Delta County
Fruit Growers Association, cost q, 900.
1t was billed first to Pueblo, and it is
claimed that the freight from Pueblo
to Delta was about the same in amount
as from Hamburg to Pueblo.
Yesterday a new soloist was intro
duced. Mr.. Harold Shellhorn, young
American, who played the Saint Saens
Suite Op. q with a sureness and purity
of tone remarkable. In the Appasiona-
ia by Beethoven he showed great
warmth of tone, and his Interpretation
was true to the traditions of the mas
ter Frankfurter Zeitung, Germany
Wednesday was ground hog day and
was divided up between clouds and sun
shine, most of the day being cloudy.
Delta boosters had prepared for any
emergency by getting umbrellas ready
to hold over Mr. Chuck should the day
be clear. Between smudge pots and
umbrellas Jack Frost and the G. H,
don't have a ghost of show on the
Western Slope.
The Jeune Hopkins Company have
leased the room recently occupied by
Gale Bros, in the |. o. o. F. building,
and are opening up first class stock
of shoes, hosiery, underwear, shirts,
gloves. hats and everything usually
kept in first class furnishing store.
As an introduction to the trade they
will offer special inducements in prices
and quality of goods. 1t
Save your coupons for the beautiful
So piece dinner set at the De Laney &
Isham store to be given away the 2Sth
of this month. All coupons are trans
ferahle so you may use those of your
friends as well as your own. We
give coupons with every purchase in
cluding flour, sugar, lard and kero-
sene. Delaney & Isham, Dealers in
Good Things, Lincoln building.
The weather in Delta county has
grown so ideal and so suggestive of
spring as to plunge farm, orchard and
stock men into furry of preparatory
work. Soil and roads have dried nice
ly during the past week and at present
the roads are in good shape except in
occasional places. Most people proph-
ecy an early spring, but this, of course,
is thing which prophesy cannot as
sure.
The Woman's Club met with Mrs.
Warren Holtzclaw. Monday, January
oath, with Mrs. j. A. johnson as
leader. The following program was
rendered: American Historians" by
Mrs. A. Price; Washington Irwin
Miss Bear; vocal solo by Mrs. AS ey
Forrest. The next meeting will be id
February at the home of Mrs. Ly =,
corner Fifth and Dodge. A large It
tendance is desired.
c. F. Monroe. of Montrose, is now in
charge of of the Stockham Bros. hard
ware business, vice MIR. Crandell, who
bought business interest in Olathe.
Mr.. Monroe was formerly manager of
the j. B. Lathrop stores at Montrose and
is thoroughly acquainted with the hard
ware business. w. B. Stockham, now
in California, will spend much of the
summer looking after the new irriga-
tion construction work on Lower Sur
face Creek near Hart's Basin.
w. Vessel, Jr, a subscriber to the
INDEPENDENT at Princeton, Ill.,, writes
to have his address changed to Delta.
Mr. Vessel recently purchased so acres
Of the ]. M. johnson place, two and
one-half miles from Delta. on Califor-
mia mesa on which he will build q new